Utah Jazz
As the trade deadline approached, the Utah Jazz got hungry for an experienced point guard to bring some steady play to the backcourt, and for awhile there, it seemed like the Jazz were ready to get really desperate by casting their lot for Ty Lawson.
But rather than make that kind of monumental mistake, Utah settled on a safer alternative: the seldom used Shelvin Mack in Atlanta.
In a three-team deal that included the Bulls, Utah acquired Mack and only had to send a 2018 second-rounder to Chicago in order to do so. With the way Utah’s been playing since Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors returned healthy, going on a 7-2 streak over their last nine games, they didn’t really need to make many changes at the deadline.
To that end it’s hard to be overly critical of Utah’s lack of activity, even if Mack is averaging an underwhelming 3.9 points and 1.6 assists in 7.5 minutes per game on abysmal .421/.148/.750 shooting splits this season. The question is, what was going on with Trey Burke and the Jazz PR team?
Grade: B
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