Number Two
Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors, Alec Burks, 2013-14
Playoff Appearances: Zero
All-Stars: Zero
Ah, finally the infamous group of this decade. This is probably the most memorable “bad Jazz team” due to the recency of the events, especially for the younger generations of Jazz fans.
This team won 25 games all season long, including an awful start to the season where they sat at 1-14 in mid-November. They had the 25th best offense and the 29th ranked defense in the league, not being particularly strong in any facet of the game.
They didn’t use those young legs to amp up the pace either, as they played games at the fifth slowest tempo in the association.
Gordon Hayward was forced into being the number one scoring option whether he was ready for it or not, and it turns out the latter was all too true that season.
He only mustered 16.2 points per game on a putrid 41 percent field goal percentage, which was not a good look for him in his contract year.
Derrick Favors and Alec Burks should have been scoring options two and three, but other players were trying to assert themselves as offensive options.
Trey Burke had a long leash to make plenty of mistakes as a young rookie, and jacked up the second most shot attempts on the team, making only 38 percent of them.
Those looks would have been better had they been released from the hands of Alec Burks, who was averaging more points (14.0) per game than Burke (12.8) on a much more palatable 45 percent shooting from the field.
Meanwhile, Derrick Favors was scoring more points per game (13.3) than Enes Kanter (12.3) despite Enes taking 0.5 more field goal attempts per game than Derrick while converting less than 50 percent of his shots.
Not only was this team bad on both sides of the ball, but they didn’t have an identity to fall back on, much less a trio they could remotely call a “Big 3”.