Here’s the key to beating the Jazz right now: pack the paint. If you stop the Jazz from driving to the rim and help on the lob, then they have to take outside shots, and they have to make them.
The Jazz, especially this version of the Jazz without Donovan Mitchell, can’t do that. Look at the starting lineup tonight: Ricky Rubio, Royce O’Neale, Joe Ingles, Derrick Favors, and Rudy Gobert. Exactly one of those players can shoot.
Everyone’s favorite alternative is placing Jae Crowder in the lineup for Favors, but it’s not like that actually changes things, either.