The Utah Jazz Are Slated To Win Less Than 24 Games This Season

The Utah Jazz turned from pretending to be the underdog when the front office hit the reset switch during the summer and dismantled the team after another first-round exit to the NBA playoffs.

Quin Snyder resigned as head coach following eight seasons. Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, Bojan Bogdanovic, and Royce O’Neale were exchanged as emerging Utah players and future draft selections.

All these moves left the Jazz to rely on an assortment of unproven talent and first-year head coach Will Hardy on his way to a new season.

”It’s all new,” guard Jordan Clarkson said. ”New experience. New team. A new vibe, really.”

Clarkson, Mike Conley and Rudy Gay are the only holdovers that played multiple minutes last season. Conley, two years away from a NBA All-Star appearance, is the only starter from last season.

With all those changes this offseason it not hard to see why the Jazz are -110 to win under 24.5 this coming season, according to Oddseeker.com.

‘I think this is an opportunity to kind of go out and show what I’m still capable of doing,” Conley said.

”I would like to play a little bit up-tempo for sure with this group,” Hardy said. ”Again, I would like us to play a style where everybody is involved. I don’t think that it would be productive for us to have one player dominate the ball with this group.”

The Jazz start the regular season on October 19th at home against the Denver Nuggets.