Following their unceremonious elimination from the most recent postseason, the Jazz’s front office came to the inevitable conclusion that significant changes must occur if the organization truly sought championship contention.
The resulting makeover has been almost universally lauded for accomplishing that, with most observers believing the Jazz’s primary flaw of insufficient outside shooting has been corrected.
The thing is, given how crazily the summer unfolded across the league, it’s not entirely clear how much progress the team made with all those moves. On the one hand, Zach Lowe of ESPN believes the Jazz to be among the top-tier teams in the league, calling them legitimate title contenders.