When most people think of the jazz they think of John Stockton and Karl Malone and view the theme as usually pretty good. There never title contenders but they are usually always in the playoffs.
This is the main problem with the jazz as they have never really started a rebuild. In 40 seasons the jazz have made the playoffs 28 times which is really good. Unfortunately out of those 28 times they have not won a championship. With the current roster on the jazz you have Donovan Mitchell, rowdy Gobert, mike Conley, and Joe Ingles. Those are the main guys on the team and it’s pretty obvious that this core is not going to win a championship. Going into this season the jazz made some big pickups of mike Conley and Bojan Bogdonavic. At the time these seemed like great moves but this season the jazz have struggled. They are currently the 4 seed to the stellar play of Donovan Mitchell but everyone knows they are not going to win the championship. The duo between Donovan and Gobert simply isn’t enough to defeat teams like the clippers or the Lakers.
The main problem is the long term situation for the jazz. In the next few years they are going to have to decide whether they want to bring Gobert back…