The Utah Jazz are almost 30 games into the season and we know some things for certain: Joe Ingles can still get under an opponent’s skin, Donovan Mitchell is just as amazing as last year, and the Derrick Favors-Rudy Gobert front court pairing won’t ever be as great as the Jae Crowder-Rudy Gobert pairing. Enough is enough, already. We have enough data.
At the beginning of every season for the past four seasons, the Utah Jazz—regardless of the amount of information they have that says the contrary—trot out the argument about whether Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors can indeed play together in today’s NBA.