As I prepared for the Jazz’s game against the Timberwolves on Wednesday, one stat shocked me: over their last five-game losing streak coming into the game, Minnesota allowed 124.7 points per 100 possessions. That’s horrific.
But when I watched the game, I found out why: they just make a metric ton of defensive mistakes. Sometimes, they don’t defend the ball.
The Jazz did a good job of taking advantage of more complicated mistakes, though. While this isn’t good defense by the Wolves (their coach, Ryan Saunders, said their “stunt and contest within the coverage could have better in pick-and-rolls”), it’s a nice read by Bojan Bogdanovic to find Donovan Mitchell on this open three.