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Utah Jazz quarter one report card: Joe Ingles, Royce O’Neale at SF

By Ryan Aston

PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 16: Joe Ingles #2 and Head Coach Quin Snyder of the Utah Jazz talk during the game against the Philadelphia 76ers on November 16, 2018 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images)
PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 16: Joe Ingles #2 and Head Coach Quin Snyder of the Utah Jazz talk during the game against the Philadelphia 76ers on November 16, 2018 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT – OCTOBER 05: Joe Ingles #2 of the Utah Jazz and teammate Royce O’Neale #23 talk during a break in the first half of a preseason NBA game against the Adelaide 36ers at Vivint Smart Home Arena on October 5, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr./Getty Images) /

Utah Jazz small forwards Joe Ingles and Royce O’Neale have both had their ups and downs in the early season.

We’ve reached the quarter-point of the 2018-19 NBA season and things in the Utah Jazz’s corner of the basketball universe are less than great. As a collective, the Jazz are three games under .500 at the time of this writing and sitting in second-to-last position in the Western Conference.

And if you dig into some of the individual performances thus far, it’s not hard to see why.

On Tuesday, I took a look at Jazz point guards and graded each on their efforts through 20-plus games this season. While there’s still reason to be hopeful about the team’s floor generals, clearly, they haven’t quite measured up so far.

Today, I’m shifting the focus to the small forwards on the roster — Joe Ingles and Royce O’Neale.

Given the positional versatility on Utah’s roster, and Coach Quin Snyder’s experimentation with three-guard and triple-wing sets, it’s a spot that’s harder to define these days. But Ingles and O’Neale have undoubtedly been the mainstays on the wing.

So, how have they done through the first 25 percent of the season?

As with the point guards, there’s definitely been some good and some bad. Here are my grades for the duo to date…

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