There are things — namely, stopping the other guys from scoring a bajillion points — to worry about early on with the Utah Jazz, but this — scoring points themselves — isn’t one of them.
The defense, the core of the Jazz’s identity in recent years, has looked in the preseason like a blind man’s finger-painting.
But, at the other end, if you appreciate fine art, or even if you wouldn’t know a Van Gogh from a give-and-go, you’ll enjoy what you’re about to see. There have only been glimpses of it so far, but, as Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert observed, it is coming, a beautiful work progressing day by day.