Following Monday night’s loss to Minnesota — a second straight defeat to a supposedly inferior opponent — the now 8-5 Jazz very much find themselves caught up once again in the sky-is-falling criticisms of the impatient masses.
Every time the offense fails to match the proficiency and productivity set by the halcyon Golden State lineup of Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and Klay Thompson, all of a sudden Mike Conley is washed up and Bojan Bogdanovic was an expensive waste. And whenever the defense can’t equal the stinginess of the Bad Boy Pistons, well, we all knew it was a mistake to get rid of Derrick Favors.