Heading into the 2017-18 NBA season, the Utah Jazz believed Rodney Hood could take the mantle from Gordon Hayward as the de facto No. 1 option for their team. It made sense; on offense, he has all the talents that you would expect out of your go-to player. He can be a volume 3-point shooter, can pull up off the dribble and can post-up smaller players on switches.
Pretty quickly they’ve learned that Hood is not a player that you can not rely on night-in and night-out to score the basketball. He just has too much variance in his scoring.