SALT LAKE CITY — When Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said his team will have its work cut out for it with the Denver Nuggets in the playoffs, he wasn’t lying.
This matchup, and any Western Conference opponent that the Jazz could have drawn in the first round of the playoffs, won’t be easy. But, there is a path to success.
Every team has weaknesses, and the Jazz are fortunate that their strengths line up well with some of the soft points in the Nuggets’ game. Even so, that’s no guarantee.
The Jazz are going to have to play nearly perfect team basketball and win nearly every individual matchup if they want to advance to the Western Conference semifinals.