Utah Jazz: The 3 most intriguing lineups for next season

The International Men of Mystery Lineup

Ricky Rubio (Spain), Dante Exum and Joe Ingles (Australia), Jonas Jerebko( Sweden), Rudy Gobert (France)

I would love for a team to put together a competitive lineup with each player from the same foreign country. Then they could each speak the same language, and the other team wouldn’t have a clue about what was going on.

Oh well, this would be cool as well. Maybe all the accents will throw the other team off.

As far as basketball goes, this lineup would actually have a chance at being fairly competitive. Ricky Rubio-led teams are almost always a plus on the offensive side of the ball when he is in the game. His on/off rating last season was a plus-1.7, but the two years prior he was a plus-5.9, and a plus-11.7 respectively.

He also contributed 4.5 win shares last season. In short, Rubio just makes his teammates better.

With Ingles and Jerebko, they have the spot-up shooting necessary to keep the defense honest, and it’ll provide room for Exum to attack the lanes. For those who don’t know Jerebko, he is a 6-foot-10 stretch four, who has a career three-point shooting percentage of 35 percent.

Below is an example of what “The Swedish Larry Bird” can do.

Then, of course, we have Gobert. He’d be running pick n’ rolls with Rubio (who may run the pick n’ roll better than any other point guard in the league), and anchoring the defense.

That may just be the best international lineup in the league! Snyder could even rotate in Thabo Sefolosha and Ekpe Udoh. Here’s to hoping the Jazz coach plays around with all of his many players from around the world.