Scouting the Utah Jazz

[Solid D]

Some old links to Utah Jazz sets...do you recognize any of these?

Early offense

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Most Used Sets

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Less Used Sets

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Out of Bounds

[timvp]

Nice find

Yeah, it's amazing that the Jazz run the same sets from 15 years ago. Sloan tweaks it a bit to match the personnel, but it's virtually the same.

It's been so effective for so long it's amazing more teams don't run the same sets. The Spurs run some variants, but not many other teams have followed suit.

[Marcus Bryant]

Where's the set that ended up with Mark Eaton being called for illegal offense?

[Marcus Bryant]

Ah yes, Mark Eaton...

Mark Eaton grew up in Southern California. After graduating from Westminster High School, Eaton attended the Arizona Automotive Ins ute and graduated as a service technician. He worked as an auto mechanic for about three years, and was eventually discovered by Tom Lubin while repairing cars. Lubin was an assistant basketball coach at Cypress Junior College, and his encouragement led Eaton to enroll at Cypress and try out for the basketball team. Eaton developed into a solid junior college player. He averaged 14.3 points game in two seasons at Cypress, and led the school to the California State le as a sop re.

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Somehow that sounds like the quintessential Jazz story. Like Karl Malone was out hunting squirrels one day in Backwoods, Louisiana and stumbled upon a basketball court.