Utah Jazz: 5 goals for Rodney Hood in 2017-18

4. Shoot 40 percent from 3-point range

Hood has shown the ability to score against opposing defenses in a plethora of ways, although it is on the perimeter where he typically tends to generate the majority of his offensive production.

Last season, Hood managed to shoot a career-high 37.1 percent from 3-point range for Utah in 59 games, and proved to be one of the team’s most reliable shooters on the floor — particularly in catch-and-shoot situations, where the 23rd overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft nailed almost 42 percent of his shots in 2016-17. With Hood now playing alongside Ricky Rubio, one can only help but wonder whether or not he has a legitimate chance to shoot 40 percent from beyond the arc.

Despite being a streaky shooter at times, Hood will be pushed off of the ball alongside Rubio, as his new cast mate will seek to find him whenever he works to get the ball off of screens and pindown actions implemented Snyder. Meanwhile, others such as Rudy Gobert will look to run uphill dribble handoffs at the top of the key, involving Hood in sets where he sprints out from the paint to the 3-point line to take advantage of defenders on poor angles.

As a result, Hood will have the opportunity of garnering a series of clean looks from downtown, and hoist up more threes as a consistent member of the starting lineup than he has in his first three seasons combined.

The Jazz finished tied with the Washington Wizards for eighth in 3-point field goal percentage this past year, and should they seek to do so again with Hayward and George Hill gone, then it will likely fall upon shooters such as Joe Johnson and Hood to put together career-best shooting clips from downtown for the second straight season.