Utah Jazz: Predicting stats for every starter in 2021-22

The NBA offseason may not feature NBA games, but it’s no time for solemn reflection for fans of the Utah Jazz or any other team across the Association. Instead, it’s a time for rampant speculation, premature conclusions, and most importantly, wildly arbitrary predictions about individual player’s statistics.

Maybe that’s overly cynical: the predictions don’t have to be arbitrary. In this article, we’ll be looking at the trend in each Utah Jazz projected starter’s numbers over the past several seasons, factoring in their ages, and making an educated guess from there. Of course, every player’s career does not follow the same curve. Some players seem to defy Father Time until the unlikely…