Jazz forward Jae Crowder knows what good NBA teams look like, having played recently for Boston and Cleveland.
“Yeah, they’re playing in the Eastern Conference,” Crowder said Wednesday as the Jazz conducted exit interviews at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus. “It makes a difference.”
Utah is not scheduled to move East, barring seismic shifting, so the Jazz’s challenge of competing with Golden State and Houston remains intact.
Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey believes the metrics that say the Jazz are somewhere between the third- and sixth-best teams in the NBA. The reality is that Golden State and Houston are “clearly in front of us,” Lindsey said.