NAOS
Well-Known Member
Which is why there was a healthy contingent of fans that weren't down with the deal.
What this makes clear is that as long as Gobert is here, Ingles must also as he is far and away the best at playing with Gobert on the team both as a distributor and floor-stretcher, in addition to being able to do those things as a 4 (this is aspect is seriously worth going deeper into, IMO).
Rubio's good enough that I think he can learn and adapt his passing, but unclogging the lanes will still be critical in making it work.
If you can trade Rubio, though, I would just throw Mitchell in as the starting PG (assuming another significantly better one isn't coming back).
The second a perimeter-based 4 checks into a game, then, if I'm the coach of the jazz, I make sure that for every one of those minutes, I've got Ingles or Johnson at the 4.