of course out with some mystery physical malady; the more things change the more they stay the same.

Anyone think Snyder is going to want to take Mitchell off the floor when it is winning time, to replace him with Hood? Of course once real scouting and prep starts teams will begin to put Mitchell in more difficult situations and his inexperience will be exposed. But he is already so much better defensively than Hood. And even before summer league games Dennis Lindsey said that Utah was going to put Mitchell in stressful, end of game situations this year because they wanted his growth to be accelerated.

It's going to be very interesting to see if Utah's supposed go-to scorer, a guy trying to secure a big new contract, loses 4th quarter minutes to a rookie.