Utah Jazz: One goal for every Jazzman in 2018-19

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - JULY 5: Donovan Mitchell #45 and Royce O'Neale #23 of the Utah Jazz attend the 2018 Utah Summer League game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Utah Jazz on July 5, 2018 at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - JULY 5: Donovan Mitchell #45 and Royce O'Neale #23 of the Utah Jazz attend the 2018 Utah Summer League game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Utah Jazz on July 5, 2018 at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT – JULY 5: Donovan Mitchell #45 and Royce O’Neale #23 of the Utah Jazz attend the 2018 Utah Summer League game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Utah Jazz on July 5, 2018 at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – JULY 5: Donovan Mitchell #45 and Royce O’Neale #23 of the Utah Jazz attend the 2018 Utah Summer League game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Utah Jazz on July 5, 2018 at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images) /

The key to success for the Utah Jazz next season will be individual improvement across their roster. As such, each player ought to focus in on these specific goals.

The 2017-18 Utah Jazz season was an overwhelming success in nearly every single way. Not only did the Jazz out-perform expectations heading into the season, but they managed to turn what looked like a lost season at about the midway point into one of the best years in recent memory.

The cohesion and chemistry were so good, in fact, that Dennis Lindsey and the rest of Jazz brass have for the most part decided to keep the squad together by re-signing Derrick Favors, Dante Exum and Raul Neto. The team ended the year so well last season and, for the most part, the entire roster has room to further improve.

That improvement and internal development will in fact be the key to the Jazz holding onto their spot in the West and potentially climbing even higher than they did in 2017-18. If they can avoid a slow start to the year and see improvement across the board in their young core, they’re going to be a very dangerous team in 2018-19.

For that to occur, there will be several goals that the team will be looking to attain as a whole, but the following is a list of one specific goal that each individual Jazzman ought to aim for in order to do his part to allow the whole squad to rise together–