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Devin Harris, making the seemingly simple exceedingly difficult

The Utah Jazz offense has the potential to captivate. It can flummox opponents and delight fans, so long as the post action doesn't stall, the cutters remain engaged, and the few outside shooters Utah has stay true on their jumpers.

Yet often it's derailed before it can even begin, all because Devin Harris -- for all of his strengths as a penetrator -- oddly struggles with post entry passes to Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, Derrick Favors, and Enes Kanter. Such passes are a simple yet crucial element of a team's offensive flow; when Harris hesitates on his post feeds, he doesn't just milk a second or two off of the shot clock. He allows Jefferson's defender (primarily Tim Duncan in this series) and the defense as a whole to wall off passing lanes and further complicate the situation.

Yet in fairness to Harris, post entry work -- just like any other form of playmaking -- requires an underestimated precision. It may be an assumed part of any point guard's job, but it's a skill that needs to be honed and improved, and in his efforts to round out other parts of his game, that particular facet of development seems to have eluded Harris.

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