Game Thread Mar 05, 2023 05:00PM MT: Jazz at Thunder

[Elizah Huge]

Talen Horton-Tanker reporting for duty.

 

[jazzVA]

THT gonna put this one away early

 

[Elizah Huge]

Would any of our bench players in this game get non garbage-time minutes on a playoff team?

The only player I could see doing that is Dunn.

 

[Jazz Traveler]

I love Giddey. Wish we had him.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Before the season it was obvious the roster wasn't built to tank, there were at least 7-8 real NBA rotation players. Tonight there's about 3-4 in uniform that are real NBA rotation players....that's a tanking team. The benefits of tanking are nice I suppose....but it's really a drag to have so many meaningless, throwaway games where the point is to lose. Gonna have a lot of that, and not just from the Jazz.

That's exactly why I'm gonna skip the rest of the season. Don't have the time or desire to watch intentionally bad basketball and players that shouldn't even be in the league.

What a shame. It's incredibly likely that we won't draft a difference maker, and in that case Ainge has thrown away a season that had a chance to be something really special. In the end, we'll remember the tanking and the losing and the bitter end.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Before the season it was obvious the roster wasn't built to tank, there were at least 7-8 real NBA rotation players. Tonight there's about 3-4 in uniform that are real NBA rotation players....that's a tanking team. The benefits of tanking are nice I suppose....but it's really a drag to have so many meaningless, throwaway games where the point is to lose. Gonna have a lot of that, and not just from the Jazz.

This season has worked out damn near perfectly in our favor and ending the year 7th or 8th in the lottery would be the cherry on top.

 

[David Stern]

Lol Boler - “I actually asked Dort before tipoff tonight if he played football. He did not.”

 

[mcbsst]

We need to shoot more 3’s

 

[Jingled]

Would any of our bench players in this game get non garbage-time minutes on a playoff team?

No.

 

[SteakNEggs]

Nice. We get tank Clarkson tonight.

 

[nateboz]

I legit don't care about this game, but these obvious missed calls are really bad.

 

[mcbsst]

We need to shoot more 3’s

As soon as I wrote that, Dunn finally made one for us