Utah Jazz: Transition D doesn’t always match team’s paint dominance

With Rudy Gobert manning the paint, the Utah Jazz boast one of the league’s most stifling defenses. However, the team’s transition D has been a mixed bag.

A strange thing happened when the Utah Jazz played host to the Washington Wizards on Saturday night: they nearly lost the game.

Despite the Wiz having just been eliminated from postseason play (while the Jazz are battling for a top-four seed) and Utah’s total decimation of Bradley Beal and his crew just days earlier, the home team only narrowly escaped with the win in the end.

There were multiple reasons for the near letdown — allowing Washington to knock down 15 3-point shots definitely rates highly here — however, more than anything, the…