Where Have the Utah Jazz Gone Wrong?

Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty ImagesThe Jazz have hit the skids losing three in a row with their back-to-back-to-back of the compressed season looming large, and it's a puzzling matter to pinpoint where exactly they've gone wrong of late. Some want to pin it on the starting bigs for not defending, but is this fair when opposing point guards have either strolled through a perimeter saloon door defense and into the paint, breaking down the D in doing so, or just plain been hot from mid-range as Russell Westbrook was? David Locke, statistical-search guru, breaks down the numbers at Locked On Jazz here, but no one has solved the puzzle yet. Is it simply scouting by the opposition that has stalled out what was the most potent frontcourt to start the season, in Al Jefferson-plus-Paul Millsap, allowing teams to pack the paint and dare Utah to bang from range, something they haven't been able to do outside of a revitalized Raja Bell?Maybe. But I've found another piece...