For those of you who are currently scratching your head at the title of this slide, bear with me for a second.
When depth is listed as an Achilles' heel for most teams, the Portland Trail Blazers for example, it's because the team isn't very deep and struggles to find quality contributors off the bench. For the Utah Jazz, the opposite is true.
The Jazz simply have too much depth. All of the starters are quality players—not superstars, but quality players—and the backups, for the most part, seem like they should be starters in the near future.
Take the big men, for example. Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap are holding down the fort in the starting five, but Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter both deserve some significant run.
Whether or not this creates internal strive is up in the air still, but it will probably cause some personnel shifting before the trading deadline, especially with both Jefferson and Millsap set to become unrestricted free agents. If that happens, the chemistry is thrown out of balance and the level of talent might decline.
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