Lake Hale is a staff writer for SLC Dunk, covering the Utah Jazz since 2022. He currently is a communications major at Utah Valley University and has been watching Jazz games since he was 9 years old
How do you give out a Defensive Player of the Year award to the team that had the worst defensive rating in the league? Well defense is a team sport and SLC Dunk writes what we want to write so get over it. The Jazz defense was simply abysmal, it wasn’t close to what it needed to be this season.