In Saturday’s preseason win vs. Portland, the Utah Jazz deployed Collin Sexton, Kris Dunn, Keyonte George, and Ochai Agbaji next to either Walker Kessler or Kelly Olynyk at times, both to get some guards more playing time, and to see if they can generate advantages with speed, playmaking, and shooting.
In Saturday’s preseason win vs. Portland, the team deployed Collin Sexton, Kris Dunn, Keyonte George, and Ochai Agbaji next to either Walker Kessler or Kelly Olynyk at times, both to get some guards more playing time, and to see if they can generate advantages with speed, playmaking, and shooting.
In Saturday night’s exhibition vs. Portland, and then again Monday vs. the New Zealand Breakers, the Jazz toyed with on-court groupings featuring either Walker Kessler orIt’s a unique approach to accounting for the team’s depth disparity between the backcourt and frontcourt. “If you go back to Baylor … we would play three-guard lineups, so this is nothing different,” he said. “The habits that I picked up at Baylor, the habits thatinstilled in me kind of carry over to that lineup, what I have to do at that certain point in the game, so that’s not an adjustment at all. I’m used to crashing or being that bigger guard that has to help the big rebound.”“At the end of the day, it’s just basketball,” he said. “Whatever.
Despite Kessler’s stated confidence in their rebounding proclivities, the Jazz’s guards — and head coach — did acknowledge that hitting the boards would have to become more instinctual.
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