The single-mindedness of the Jazz regarding their aim and purpose this season, a season for which camp opens this week, has permeated from Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley straight through to Georges Niang and everyone else.
It’s one thing for outsiders to have great expectations. But, turns out, the Jazz themselves have them, too.
Asked recently about those towering intentions during an interview for my radio show, Niang said precisely what his teammates have already said. It was in perfect harmony, filled with the same resolve.
He conceded that the Jazz, on their supposed transitional road to glory, would weather some difficult stretches — “There are times when we’ll be down, when we have to lift each other up through the grind” — but that they will, indeed, bounce through those bumps.