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2016-17 Hype Train Playoff Chase!!!

Jazz record: 48-30
Clippers record: 48-31

Jazz road record: 21-18
Clippers road record: 21-19

Jazz Home record: 27-12
Clippers Home record: 27-12

Jazz record against the western conference: 28-20
Clippers record against the western conference: 28-21

Jazz point per game: 100.6
Jazz Opponents point per game: 96.5
Jazz point differential: +4.1

Clippers points per game: 108.5
Clippers opponents points per game: 104.8
Clippers point differential: +3.7

This playoff series should be a great one. Maybe the best series of the 1st round. Teams are pretty evenly matched. I cant wait!

I think that homecourt advantage is crucial. Clippers have more star power so they will probably be favored by the refs already anyway (Glad DL is talking about the officiating early on) so you dont want them to have the home court home cooking advantage as well. I want a game 7 in Salt Lake City. That would be ****ing awesome!

Clippers have the bigs and the point guard to play the half court slow down playoff basketball that the jazz tend to favor. Gonna be an ugly, foul filled slobberknocker of a series. We all pretty much hate most of the clippers players already........... we are gonna really hate them after this playoff series i think.
 
Tonight's games:

Knicks @ Grizzlies
Pistons @ Rockets
Spurs @ Mavericks
T-Wolves @ Jazz

If the bolded win tonight the west will look like this:

Warriors 65-14
Spurs 60-19
Rockets 53-26
Jazz 49-30
Clippers 48-31
Thunder 45-33
Grizzlies 42-38
Blazers 39-40

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Guys, I'd rate the Clippers third best team in the NBA postseason behind GSW and CLE. I still think they're contenders.
You should not be paying too much attention to how teams perform in the regular season, playoffs are another stage where star players shine and LAC have three.

Good news is they have a boatload of problems. Their top two players missed tons of games due to injuries. Their coach sucks. Something looks wrong with CP3, likely both mentally and physically. Besides him they don't have high IQ players. If we somehow contain CP3 they'll struggle. Griffin will score though. We need Favors, the only playerin our roster that can defend him but last time he was on one leg, it's vital how he'll return from the injury this time.

A major concern would be officiating.

This will be a long series with ups and downs.. I see our chance of winning the series at 45%, and a bit more than that if Hood shows up and helps scoring. He should! JJ Redick learned a lot about team defense during his time in ORL but he still is not good a solid individual defender, will never be. This is a key matchup. If I know the Coach Q, we'll see some Hood-Redick isos throughout the series and if Hood delivers we might win the series. Overall if Favors and Hood play better than they did so far in the season we'll beat floppers.
 
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I like that it's mostly West teams

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jjscap said:
Guys, I'd rate the Clippers third best team in the NBA postseason behind GSW and CLE..
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Yeah, you're nuts. Clippers are a bad matchup for us, but they are no where close to 3rd best postseason team. They are several spots back, but the very idea that they are better than the spurs is crazy talk.
 
Ellis269 said:
I actually wouldn't mind if the Jazz hired Sam Hinkie for some role in the front office. Guy has balls and a sharp mind. . . and a willingness to stick his neck out there. He knows how to work a deal, and he has a history working with DL (they came up through Houston at the same time.) I wouldn't want him calling the shots because I think he's a little overzealous sometimes. . . but I sure wouldn't mind having his voice in the room.
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Wait, wuh?

I thought you were a rabid Hinkie hater? I thought I remembered a disagreement you and I had about the job he was doing in Philly. Anyway, there's no doubt Hinkie did some great work there, and if/when Utah is back in a position that they need to build from the ground up, I'd have no problem giving him full control. Much of what he did in Philly has been blown out of proportion anyway. Injury after injury and really it was only Embiid that they really drafted knowing his injury would prolong their tank.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
Wait, wuh?

I thought you were a rabid Hinkie hater? I thought I remembered a disagreement you and I had about the job he was doing in Philly. Anyway, there's no doubt Hinkie did some great work there, and if/when Utah is back in a position that they need to build from the ground up, I'd have no problem giving him full control. Much of what he did in Philly has been blown out of proportion anyway. Injury after injury and really it was only Embiid that they really drafted knowing his injury would prolong their tank.
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Must not have been me. I didn't like the Embiid pick at #3, but I got the reasoning behind it. I also don't like it when teams deliberately tank, especially for an extended period of time, but I had no problem with "the process". If anything, I wanted the Jazz to take a relatively similar approach back in 2013. I advocated drafting young players with raw talent and making them play early and often, and then filling the roster out with hungry fringe guys to encourage a lot of competition for minutes. I was onboard with trading Kanter and Burks before both had their value wrecked by stupidity and injury. I felt like he sometimes made too many trades and gave up on players too quickly. . . but in hindsight, many of his trades were great moves. I do feel like they gamed the lottery system, but they did it within the rules and it seems to be working out for them.
 
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