The advantage of the Jazz is stability, but their weakness is also stability.
Since Larry Miller took over the team and built the small city club around the core of Stockton-Malone, the Jazz has always been an unignorable force in the League.
Their stability mainly manifests in the entire team's genuine focus on basketball. Jeff-Malone, upon joining the Jazz team, remarked that "the atmosphere here is just like in college, not at all like a professional team."
Many professional teams resemble companies; everyone gets together for work, trains in the morning, plays at night, finishes the game, clocks out, goes for a drink, eats something, and finds some amusement.
Basketball is work, a part of life, even a small part.
It's different with the Jazz. Salt Lake City is a small city with not much entertainment; basketball itself is the biggest entertainment.
Here, even the fringe players are celebrities. Players rarely go to the movies or dine out beyond playing.
