What will be our record over the next 19 games before the trade deadline

[HermanG]

We currently stand at 11-7. If Jazz wins Warriors in the postponed game I achieve some bragging rights!

Solo picking the correct result is worth applauds (if that happens).

I am also pretty happy with my 11-8 and especially with this breakdown:

The top contender opponents we play (Celtics, Bucks twice, 76ers twice, OKC twice and Nuggets once) include 5 home games and 3 road games so we will probably win 2-3 of those 8.
Gotta go down homer lane and say we beat Wizards, Pistons and Hornets despite playing 2 of them on the road, but they all should struggle with our size big time.

Then its about the pack of mid playoff/play-in teams, where we play 4 home and 4 on the road, so I'm going for a better case scenario and say 5-3 against them to get to my optimistic scenario at 11-8.

I have no idea of rest advantages or disadvatanges like I did last month though, so I'm not that confident about this one.

If we beat GS then I got everything correct except that we won 4 instead of 3 against the top level teams.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

The real point of the thread is where we would be at by the trade deadline. I think people can make up whatever they want about the GS game. Personally I think there was an 80% chance we won that game. So I think 12-7 is the closest. If you guessed 11-8 you can pretend we would have lost that game and still pat yourself on the back.

Kind of crazy we outplayed 90% of everyone's expectations, but it still kind of feels like we didn't play that well.

 

[fishonjazz]

Kind of crazy we outplayed 90% of everyone's expectations, but it still kind of feels like we didn't play that well.

This.
Clarkson has been a huge slump. Its seems Sexton has went from playing like an all star to just an ok player lately. I feel like simone has been in a big time slump (i will check the data on this in a minute). Even Lauri had a couple of recent stinkers. Yet here we are exceeding expectations anyways.

 

[fishonjazz]

This.
Clarkson has been a huge slump. Its seems Sexton has went from playing like an all star to just an ok player lately. I feel like simone has been in a big time slump (i will check the data on this in a minute). Even Lauri had a couple of recent stinkers. Yet here we are exceeding expectations anyways.

I went back 15 games and these are the shooting numbers for Simone

49-115 from the field for 42.6%. 27-76 from three for 35.5%
For the season he is at 45% from the field and 39.1% from 3.

Not as bad as I thought. Nowhere close to the slump clarkson has been in. And clarkson has been getting the second most minutes on the team and we are still exceeding expectations so thats a really good sign.

 

[HermanG]

The real point of the thread is where we would be at by the trade deadline. I think people can make up whatever they want about the GS game. Personally I think there was an 80% chance we won that game. So I think 12-7 is the closest. If you guessed 11-8 you can pretend we would have lost that game and still pat yourself on the back.

Kind of crazy we outplayed 90% of everyone's expectations, but it still kind of feels like we didn't play that well.

This.
Clarkson has been a huge slump. Its seems Sexton has went from playing like an all star to just an ok player lately. I feel like simone has been in a big time slump (i will check the data on this in a minute). Even Lauri had a couple of recent stinkers. Yet here we are exceeding expectations anyways.

I would say that on average we played great... we just achieved that in a very bipolar kind of way.

If Clarkson didnt hit that trade rumor wall in the middle of this stretch (or whatever made him regress to his early season form), I think we may have ended up way better than 11-7. But we also turned some schedule losses into wins at the beginning of this stretch.

 

[Mr. T]

I guess it is fair to say, that we also exceeded expectations with winning Bucks and Thunder (and obviously a bunch of other teams with a winning record) while losing to Nets which should have been a winnable game.

 

[fishonjazz]

I guess it is fair to say, that we also exceeded expectations with winning Bucks and Thunder (and obviously a bunch of other teams with a winning record) while losing to Nets which should have been a winnable game.

Should have beat the sixers. Give Kessler a few more minutes in that one and its a win.