Justin Rowan

But the reason it fell short was the offense.

And sometimes that's been Mobley not necessarily being ready to be that release valve.

I think the last two years, it's been Darius getting injured and no longer being able to.

100%.

fulfill his duties as a point guard and then it turned into point donovan right and point donovan is not great for anybody not named donovan mitchell there were times even that game two against indiana where jared allen had a rolling like he had a fantastic efficient game but in the fourth quarter as mitchell got more tired he's using his energy strictly as a score

Right.

And he's not involving anyone else.

He strains his calf in that game.

And at that point, that was pretty much the series.

So I do think having Harden in the mix is going to be a kind of interesting chicken or egg type thing.

Right.

Because he's going to be available.

Right.

Like we don't know.

We don't know how it's going to look in the postseason.

But if he's available, does that stop Mitchell from wearing down?

We know he's going to consistently feed the bigs, where sometimes the tunnel vision of the two shorter guards, when they're getting blitzed and they're getting trapped, sometimes they didn't involve the bigs.

So does Jared Allen remain productive if he's being consistently fed?

Does Evan Mobley remain productive if he's being fed?

Plus, you have the added wrinkle of now being able to run some mid-post stuff for James Harden and other sets that you just couldn't run with the 6-1 Darius Garland.