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Its Time to Tank

Eddie Zero said:
I don't like most NBA players style of play and tbh mostly the game is ugly most of the time, buts thats the modern NBA for you. All I can say at this point is Sexton is not why they lost these last 3.
He has a lot to do changing responsibility, from being a score first player in Cleveland, and more of a team oriented leader here. Maybe the odds are stacked against him if you beleive he is low IQ as you seem to think. I don't think thats what it is at all.
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I agree with this which is why I ended up creating an account. I'm European (not Finnish ) and watch for entertainment rather than having a local team to support.

As you say, most NBA teams seem to play a rather ugly style in my opinion. Utah started off the season playing beautiful basketball. It's refreshing to watch a deep team sharing the ball and without a single dominant player.
This is what I'd rather watch, but not necessarily the path to a championship. Out of the entire league, Utah has been the most enjoyable to watch for me.

I don't blame Sexton for the recent losses, but I do still prefer to watch a different style of play from what he offers.

I digress though. Back to tanking chat.
 
Got to Get Wemby into our Life
Sung to the tune of
Got to Get You into my life
By the Beatles
Jazz sucked, took a ride
Didn’t know what we would find there
Another road where maybe I
Could see another prospect there
Ohh, then I suddenly see you
Ooh, the Jazz really need you
Every single day of my life
 
We’re slipping fast. We clearly don’t yet have enough talent as it stands to compete with the big boys.

It’s time to tank.
 
ONE LOVE said:
We’re slipping fast. We clearly don’t yet have enough talent as it stands to compete with the big boys.

It’s time to tank.
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Why? We're losing anyway. What do you suggest we do?

Anyway, for a return to our winning ways:
- Get Conley back ASAP
- Sexton and Vando to bench
- Kessler starts
- Increase passing / ball movement again
- Stop overswitching at the slightest hint of a screen - teams are hunting Olynyk and Sexton
 
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I agree. We’ve found out we have a lot of good players who have a lot of value. It’s going to be a ready-made team when we get Wembanyana. But we’ve got to go get a star and there’s only one way to do it. The whole point of blowing the Mitchell/gobert team up was to stop spinning our wheels and go get a real ****ing car.
 
Nate505 said:
Tanking is stupid. If the Jazz are losing naturally like they are because Conley is such a glue piece, so be it. Sabotaging this team for a 14% chance at Wemby is just so ****ing dumb though.
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Realistically, at this point it would be a hell of a lot lower than 14% even if they decided to go all in on the tank starting now.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Getting to 8th gets us a 26.2% chance at a top-4 pick though. Just playing devils advocate.
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It’s not just about Wemby… top 4 are good and I think there will be a fall of in the draft around 11-12… we’ll see how the draft takes shape as the season rolls on.
 
Elizah Huge said:
It really isn’t. We could get to as high as 6th to be honest. Not with the way the team currently is constructed though. We are a playoff team if we don’t make any trades.
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30 wins gets you 8th in a typical year.

This team isn't finishing 18-42 now after going 12-10 against by far the hardest quarter of their schedule.
 
MT Steve said:
30 wins gets you 8th in a typical year.

This team isn't finishing 18-42 now after going 12-10 against by far the hardest quarter of their schedule.
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I'm not so sure abnout this. We may make a series of 2-8 , 3-7 games in the next 30 and let's go to lottery. We just need for that to manage smartly Mike, JC, Lauri. sit them 20-30 games with some ''injuries'' and then we will be very bad. This way, we don't throw our good player and with a bit of luck at lottery..... we may be good quite soon.
 
FrenchJazzFa said:
I'm not so sure abnout this. We may make a series of 2-8 , 3-7 games in the next 30 and let's go to lottery. We just need for that to manage smartly Mike, JC, Lauri. sit them 20-30 games with some ''injuries'' and then we will be very bad. This way, we don't throw our good player and with a bit of luck at lottery..... we may be good quite soon.
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We were competitive on the road against two preseason favourites Suns and Warriors while our 3PT was bad and our top 2 scores were MIA (Lauri and Beasley).

What makes you think we are a bad team all of a sudden?

What did GSW do to Minnesota today? FYI, they didnt do anything more than they did against us. They didnt light it up from 3... Steph didnt explode etc. They just played against a worse team.

Only bad losses we have are against Rockets, Pistons and Knicks. So 3 in 22 games. Other losses are pretty much schedule losses. And we have won some games we shouldnt had.

I'm still enjoying this season rather than looking towards the next.
 
HermanG said:
We were competitive on the road against two preseason favourites Suns and Warriors while our 3PT was bad and our top 2 scores were MIA (Lauri and Beasley).

What makes you think we are a bad team all of a sudden?

What did GSW do to Minnesota today? FYI, they didnt do anything more than they did against us. They didnt light it up from 3... Steph didnt explode etc. They just played against a worse team.

Only bad losses we have are against Rockets, Pistons and Knicks. So 3 in 22 games. Other losses are pretty much schedule losses. And we have won some games we shouldnt had.

I'm still enjoying this season rather than looking towards the next.
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The Jazz have the worst defense in the NBA over the last 10 games and they are going to start doing tank moves (resting and trading).
 
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