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The NBA's New Lineups Of Death | The Ringer

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Positional versatility is the name of the game, and these up-and-coming teams have what it takes to find success out of the Warriors model
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Utah Jazz — Dante Exum, Alec Burks, Rodney Hood, Gordon Hayward, and Trey Lyles (or Boris Diaw or Joe Johnson)

The beauty of this season’s Jazz is how many different lineup options Quin Snyder has. He will start the game with Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors, and then take one out to pair the other with a more perimeter-oriented big man in Lyles or Diaw. He can also play Lyles and Diaw together on the second unit and run an offense similar to the Hawks, or he could go super-small like the Warriors and play five wings together.

The trick to small ball is playing guys who aren’t all that small, and the Jazz have the biggest group of perimeter players in the NBA: George Hill (6-foot-3), Exum (6-foot-6), Burks (6-foot-6), Hayward (6-foot-8), Hood (6-foot-8), and Johnson (6-foot-8). They have all shown the ability to defend multiple positions and Exum is the only one of the lot who isn’t a knockdown 3-point shooter. Playing five of them together would mean spreading the floor as wide as possible while still having the size and speed to be passable on defense.

Hayward and Hood would be the primary options in any small-ball lineup, so the question is which three players to put around them. The fastest trio, and the one with the most upside, is Exum, Burks, and Lyles. Exum and Burks are coming off serious injuries, and Lyles has only scratched the surface of what he could become in the NBA. If those three can live up to their potential, the Jazz might be the team in the West with the best chance of matching up with the Warriors in the playoffs.
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I find it interesting that there are so many "sportswriters" talking about the Jazz and their seemingly good fortune this coming season. It confuses me though, since the naysayers of this fool's gold team are actual Jazz fans...and, well, some historical troll accounts. I don't know who I should believe.

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I wouldn't say "sports writers"-- it's mostly been Tjarks, and Lowe to a lesser extent.


Tjarks absolutely loves this Jazz team tho-- which is nice cuz he's honestly a dope writer
 
Chad Ford, NBC Sports, ESPN, Aldridge, Tjarks, etc. The panel of experts is a long list. Dennis Lindsey and the Jazz org obviously agree since they invested in this squad.

On the counter argument there is LogGrad98 (aka oral diarrhea), N. Colorado (aka 'kaka morena de la boca') - rough translation: 'of or related to the mouth spewing hot and soft brown'.

I concur. I am troubled deciding who to believe.
 
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Chad Ford, NBC Sports, ESPN, Aldridge, Tjarks, etc. The panel of experts is a long list. Dennis Lindsey and the Jazz org obviously agree since they invested in this squad.

On the counter argument there is LogGrad98 (aka oral diarrhea), N. Colorado (aka 'kaka morena de la boca') - rough translation: 'of or related to the mouth spewing hot and soft brown'.

I concur. I am troubled deciding who to believe.
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Careful log will report you if you insult him.

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The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Chad Ford, NBC Sports, ESPN, Aldridge, Tjarks, etc. The panel of experts is a long list. Dennis Lindsey and the Jazz org obviously agree since they invested in this squad.

On the counter argument there is LogGrad98 (aka oral diarrhea), N. Colorado (aka 'kaka morena de la boca') - rough translation: 'of or related to the mouth spewing hot and soft brown'.

I concur. I am troubled deciding who to believe.
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You root for mediocrity? Talk to us in 1-3 years when the Jazz go back into full rebuild mode. I hope you enjoy the brief respite DL has given you from watching his ****ty teams.
 
franklin said:
You root for mediocrity? Talk to us in 1-3 years when the Jazz go back into full rebuild mode. I hope you enjoy the brief respite DL has given you from watching his ****ty teams.
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Ah yes... Let's add Franklin to our panel. It may look a little like this in a race:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCyr1ugzxXM
 
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Chad Ford, NBC Sports, ESPN, Aldridge, Tjarks, etc. The panel of experts is a long list. Dennis Lindsey and the Jazz org obviously agree since they invested in this squad.

On the counter argument there is LogGrad98 (aka oral diarrhea), N. Colorado (aka 'kaka morena de la boca') - rough translation: 'of or related to the mouth spewing hot and soft brown'.

I concur. I am troubled deciding who to believe.
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Kevin Pelton, Grant Hughes to name a couple more

Only person I can think of that doesn't think we'll be good that I can think of is Simmons.


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Rgiss said:
Kevin Pelton, Grant Hughes to name a couple more

Only person I can think of that doesn't think we'll be good that I can think of is Simmons.


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No one trusts his NBA opinion. He doesn't count.

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