I thought the grind-it-out style was really good basketball but that will not work with this roster. I loved the tough-nosed, conservative, stops-driven defense last year, too. In order to score enough to win, the Jazz need to re-shape their identity, and "attack" basically sums it up: get out in transition, make the opposing D collapse (in order to get open threes as much as anything else), and create turnovers on defense (even more transition opportunities!). And with a healthy Favors, they could turn offensive rebounding into a net-positive strategy as well (zagging with everyone else's zigging).
This is not the most sound basketball, ideally, but it is the best strategy for this roster. If they can be a homeless-man's Nash-Suns but play elite defense, that is pretty cool.
This is not the most sound basketball, ideally, but it is the best strategy for this roster. If they can be a homeless-man's Nash-Suns but play elite defense, that is pretty cool.