Tony Jones, one of the Tribune’s Utah Jazz beat reporters, will answer questions submitted on Twitter each week in his Jazz mailbag. Here are this week’s questions and answers.
To me, he without question is a top 10 overall player. If Rudy Gobert’s current defensive impact was an offensive impact, we’d be calling him James Harden or Stephen Curry. That’s how impactful he’s been defensively. Gobert’s been the best defender in the league this season by a wide margin. And he’s been a key cog offensively, which is what people haven’t realized or don’t want to realize. When you combine what he does for the Utah offense and how he’s impacted the Jazz’s current winning streak, the question should be more how is he NOT a top 10 player?