Our Utah Jazz have gone a meager 1-4 since starting the season 5-0, and finished this last Eastern Conference road trip on a 3 game losing streak.
The rough start isn’t the biggest concern for the Jazz. It’s their players.
The Jazz took advantage of their light schedule early on, but without a leader on the floor it has been pretty obvious that the Jazz can’t go far. They need Deron Williams to be healthy and to lead this team.
Both Kirilenko and Okur have been out for a couple of games also, Kirilenko with an injury and Okur dealing with an illness in the family, so the weight of these loses cannot be put on the absence of Williams alone. The Jazz have plenty of talent and should be able to beat the subpar teams in the league with some back-up players. Even an injury-battered Jazz team should have been able to beat the Charlotte Bobcats, but the Larry Brown-led Bobcats outlasted the Jazz 104-96.
