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Jazz 2017/18 Playoff Bus! All Aboard!

colton said:
Agreed. Beating the Warriors in a 7 game series, if they are healthy, would be nearly impossible. Beating the Rockets would be really tough, but maybe doable. I think beating anyone else, including Portland and/or whoever comes out of the East, is a definite possibility the way the Jazz are currently playing.
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I would very much prefer to play the Rockets given the choice.

Harden does not get his BS foul calls in the playoffs as much... Dantoni ball has struggled in the playoffs. Paul could go out with an injury and Harden has flamed out a couple times.

Also isoball works well in the regular season but if we are focused on it for 6-7 games you can plan to neuter it a bit.

The way GS beats you and they also have iso ability and are all proven at this point... just too tough at full strength... maybe even without Klay or Green they are still nearly impossible to beat.
 
If you look at the Clippers schedule, they've been beating mostly terrible teams. Their schedule for the rest of this month is absolutely brutal. I'd be stunned if they managed to win at least half of their next 10 games.
 
I've been telling you all. That all the teams around us have brutal games coming up. We have already moved ahead of the Spurs and Nuggets. The Thunder, Clippers, Wolves and Pelicans have to be getting nervous.
 
yamers said:
Whoa. @DWolfsonKSTP just said on @1500ESPN that Wiggins has “whispered to teammates” that he’s unhappy being a third option behind Butler and Towns.

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His teammates "whispered" back that they are not happy that he sucks and is being paid too much.

Dude needs to work on his game... has all the physical tools to be a Paul George type defender and is just awful. He's the opposite of Joe Ingles.
 
David Stern said:
I mean I'd trade for him.
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He has lacked motivation and is generally viewed as kind of lazy. He starts a 5/146M contract next year... you know what happens when you give unmotivated dudes a **** ton of money?

Spoiler... It isn't them working harder. If we think Quin can reach him and he'd buy in I think he'd be a good buy low candidate, but the price would have to be sooooooo low for me.

If he was a good defender I might be able to live with his offense (inefficient volume guy... kind of like Hood)... but he doesn't use his athleticism and length at all on the defensive end.
 
SCS said:
Guys.... Are we a championship threat? Are we a contender THIS year?

All year I would have answered no to those questions. Because Donovan is still a rook, we need a 3rd star, the Rockets and Warriors are really good, etc. But the stats are saying otherwise. We're #1 in defensive rating and top 10 in offensive rating since Gobert returned. Those are the numbers of a real contender. The great extended run we've been on is the type of extended run contenders typically go on. I don't want to get myself too excited but I'm not discounting our chances against anyone anymore. If we're hot come playoff time we could shock the world.
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History doesn't seem to be on our side, though. Has something like this ever happened in the history of the league? I know the past isn't a lock on the future, but still.
 
Anyone remember the line from Pulp Fiction when they got the car cleaned up and Marvin's corpse loaded up? The wolf said "Let's not start sucking each others ****'s quite yet." That's where we're at right now. The team still has a lot of work to do, but man it gives a guy reason to keep watching.
 
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