He averaged the 21st most ppg in the NBA. He was the leading scorer and most important player offensively on a top 4 team in the west.
His importance to the Jazz is kind of hard to quantify though. He was literally our only player creating offense for our team for good chunks of the season. How many games would we have won if we didnt have him this year?
If you want to say he was the second best on the Jazz this year I think that is probably true but arguable. He definitely was our most important on offense and Gobert was our most important on defense. But lets look at who is the second best player on the teams with our same records in the West. CJ McCollum, Paul George, Cousins or Jrue, and KAT.
I would rank him around 20-30. I think the intangibles and leadership put him closer to 20 but his stats put him closer to 30. I cant put him below that due to our record and his importance to getting that.
We got to see a big impact from Gobert due to him being out. But some of that had to do with our team gelling and getting rolling. We obviously went on a big win streak when Gobert first went down and then we had our really hard part of the schedule. When he got back we got rolling again due to him, Rubio playing much better, the schedule, and the team playing together better.
We didnt get to see what it is like without Mitchell for any significant time.
