As the regular season nears and the Jazz winnow down their roster, we'll be learning more about the roles each player will fill. Starters are a part of that, but a team's best five players statistically are not always the starting five.
Take last year, for example. As CBS Eye On Basketball reports, last year's best Jazz lineup in terms of plus/minus consisted of Trey Burke, Gordon Hayward, Joe Ingles, Derrick Favors, and Rudy Gobert. Zach Harper writes:
This was the fourth highest-used lineup (128 minutes) by the Jazz and it put up a plus-14.