When Rudy Gobert rocks home a dunk, he puts a flourish on it — he wants everyone in the arena to feel the power of the slam. He’s had 99 dunks this year, and it’s been hard to miss any of them.
But there’s something the 25-year-old does that gets almost no attention, and usually it’s the exact thing that precedes his dunks: screening. Gobert quietly has become one of the best screeners in the NBA, and that’s opened up the Jazz offense — and his own game — in a way that’s hard for the layman to see sometimes.