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Are we actually good or is it the schedule?

homeytennis said:
Both. Tonight could be a trap game. We don't match up all that well and Alex Len has always given the Jazz headaches.
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What? Len have a career 6.1 pts. against us on .361% FG and a whoppin' .426% TS. He is universally known as Rudy's booty call. Only headache he causes is to his coach.
 
We're a top defensive team and a limited offensive team. When we play great defensive teams we have a very small margin of error and tend to struggle offensively. When we play teams that don't defend well, like Washington and New York, we look good since we can get open looks left and right. Mostly, it's the easy schedule right now.
 
The Jazz are a solid 2nd tier team, they win the games they’re supposed to at a very good rate, but don’t do all that well against similarly-good teams.

If this team wins a first round playoff series, that’s a successful season. Anything more than that shouldn’t be expected by anyone. They lack the firepower and flexibility on the court to be a real dark horse and that’s okay for right now.

Improvement makes the Jazz a dark horse contender. We don’t need excuses this offseason, we need substantial improvement.
 
Until extended scoring droughts are not part of this teams identity I'm always going to have muted expectations.
 
538 ranks us as the 8th best team in the NBA and 4th best in the West. They predict we will finish with 51 wins. They predict we will finish tied with Portland with the 4th best record as well. Oddly the have us ranked higher than Denver, but Denver finishing 4 games better than us. They have OKC ranked ahead of us but finishing 2 games behind us. We are also one of few teams in the NBA that has a higher current Carmelo than a full strength Carmelo. Ours is the biggest gap. If you go by Current Carmelo we are the 4th best in the NBA.
 
Ron Mexico said:
538 ranks us as the 8th best team in the NBA and 4th best in the West. They predict we will finish with 51 wins.
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This is pretty much my thoughts too. That 538 thing seems to know what's up

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fishonjazz said:
This is pretty much my thoughts too. That 538 thing seems to know what's up

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Yeah, its close to what I think as well. I would say we are better than OKC but that is the only one. We will end with a better record and both our teams are pretty much the same and we beat them in the playoffs last year pretty solidly. They did beat us in the regular season but they were way more motivated for those games.
 
One Brow said:
We went 3-5 against the top 4, so I don't think they are that far above us as a group.
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2 vs dysfunctional Boston, and 1 vs Milwaukee? Meh. A losing record doesn't really help change my stance.

And we were 0-4 vs the Thunder this year and I think we are basically as good as them, so that's not all it's about.

It also doesn't matter because how we match up vs the top of the East in the playoffs this year is completely irrelevant.
 
Tak said:
What? Len have a career 6.1 pts. against us on .361% FG and a whoppin' .426% TS. He is universally known as Rudy's booty call. Only headache he causes is to his coach.
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He literally hits guys in the face and head which is known to cause headaches.
 
Ron Mexico said:
Yeah, its close to what I think as well. I would say we are better than OKC but that is the only one. We will end with a better record and both our teams are pretty much the same and we beat them in the playoffs last year pretty solidly. They did beat us in the regular season but they were way more motivated for those games.
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Rubbish. They swept us, and I think 3 of those games weren't particularly close.
 
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