New signing Rayjon Tucker wasn’t necessarily expecting to get immediate playing time — of the non-garbage variety, anyway.
“There was no set time on when I was going to play or when I wasn’t going to play,” Tucker said.
But in recent games, Jazz coach Quin Snyder has inserted Tucker into his rotation, usually during first halves. The idea is as follows: Donovan Mitchell was playing too many minutes, nearly 40 in some cases, when the Jazz’s bench was struggling. So Snyder has extended the playing time of Emmanuel Mudiay and Jordan Clarkson, but in order to prevent Mudiay from playing too many consecutive minutes, Tucker gets a short 3-5 minute stint in the first half to show what he can do.