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We are currently tied with the Lakers for the 8/9 spots.

Two games behind the Clips, Rox and Spurs who sit at 5/6/7.

Three games behind the Blazers for the 4 seed.

Four games behind OKC for the 3 seed.

I doubt the Nuggs or Dubs are catchable.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
We are currently tied with the Lakers for the 8/9 spots.

Two games behind the Clips, Rox and Spurs who sit at 5/6/7.

Three games behind the Blazers for the 4 seed.

Four games behind OKC for the 3 seed.

I doubt the Nuggs or Dubs are catchable.
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What we need is to AVOID the dubs in the first round. Not worry about them as a regular season competitor, since they're far superior regardless of their indifference to the regular season.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
We are currently tied with the Lakers for the 8/9 spots.

Two games behind the Clips, Rox and Spurs who sit at 5/6/7.

Three games behind the Blazers for the 4 seed.

Four games behind OKC for the 3 seed.

I doubt the Nuggs or Dubs are catchable.
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Do we own the tiebreaker with the lakers?
I feel like we do so we would be 8th and they would be 9th.
 
Piggybacking off of both of you, I’ve hoped all year we don’t have to face the Dubs til the WCF.

I can’t sit here and say no one else scares me. The Thunder have fine tuned some things and improved and have two studs and the Nuggets have so many weapons that it could pose problematic to us considering our all too often offensive woes.

But avoiding the Dubs until the WCF is really my hope.
 
With expiring trade exceptions and DL at the helm I feel our roster will be improved by playoff time.

Who we get... I have no clue.

I'll be happy with the 4th or 5th seed. We've shown we can steal game 1. 6th seed would be rough though if it's against OKC.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Piggybacking off of both of you, I’ve hoped all year we don’t have to face the Dubs til the WCF.

I can’t sit here and say no one else scares me. The Thunder have fine tuned some things and improved and have two studs and the Nuggets have so many weapons that it could pose problematic to us considering our all too often offensive woes.

But avoiding the Dubs until the WCF is really my hope.
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i don't think we have to worry about who Utah would be facing in the WC Finals. They probably won't get out of the 2nd round and may not even get past the 1st round.
 
kabenac said:
With expiring trade exceptions and DL at the helm I feel our roster will be improved by playoff time.

Who we get... I have no clue.

I'll be happy with the 4th or 5th seed. We've shown we can steal game 1. 6th seed would be rough though if it's against OKC.
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The trade exceptions can't be combined so they're basically useless. No one is going to give up a good player for those small amounts.

DL at the helm? He basically shot his wad acquiring Korver. I guess he has Thabo and Udoh as expirings, but I doubt he trades Favors. Burks was the lone big contract Utah had and he's gone. Lindsey wasnt willing to give Chicago a 1st for Mirotic. I doubt he gives up a 1st this year. The value of having another stud rookie like Allen instead of a player like Niko is immeasurable.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Run that **** down the road to the other loser attitudes on this board.
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Because we can't be realistic in this thread? Sorry, Pres. Trump, I didn't know only one viewpoint was allowed. Its likely the Jazz DONT get home court. Winning against OKC was amazing last season. But home teams generally win. And I dont see Utah getting past Denver or GS in the 2nd round to get to the WCF.
 
Jack Strop said:
Because we can't be realistic in this thread? Sorry, Pres. Trump, I didn't know only one viewpoint was allowed. Its likely the Jazz DONT get home court. Winning against OKC was amazing last season. But home teams generally win. And I dont see Utah getting past Denver or GS in the 2nd round to get to the WCF.
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See my previous message.
 
Jack Strop said:
The trade exceptions can't be combined so they're basically useless. No one is going to give up a good player for those small amounts.

DL at the helm? He basically shot his wad acquiring Korver. I guess he has Thabo and Udoh as expirings, but I doubt he trades Favors. Burks was the lone big contract Utah had and he's gone. Lindsey wasnt willing to give Chicago a 1st for Mirotic. I doubt he gives up a 1st this year. The value of having another stud rookie like Allen instead of a player like Niko is immeasurable.
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Hidsight is always 20-20. It's funny how people keep referring back to Mirotic. We can easily look at every single GM in the league and pick them apart for missed potential trades. It would have been nice to have held off on trading Burks to see what we could get but we desperately needed to get some shooting.

And look at our record before we acquired Korver VS after. Jazz had an awful 3 point % (under 30% during November before acquiring Korver). I personally like having a player who shoots a high-volume of threes at 40%.

And the trade exceptions are useful. 3.7M for the Johnson trade has value when combined with an expiring like Thabo. That's enough to trade for a player who can help the team.
 
If the Pels start trading everyone off, would they do Sefalosha, an exception and a 2nd or two for Randle?

Not sure how we’d do lineups then but despite mediocre 3 point numbers, he brings some firepower we sort of sorely lack. And his contract was only for two years.
 
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