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John Hollinger is such a media whore.
"As long as they don't trade Andrei Kirilenko for Boris Diaw, which my analysis says would cost them several games..."

I'm surprised he didn't include a link to his pay-only Insider Info.

Tim Legler gives the highest marks.

What's funny is that most agree getting Jefferson is an upgrade over Boozer. So I guess it comes down to either losing Korver or replacing Matthews with Raja as the reason(s) the Jazz will be seeded lower than last season.

But when you had only 7 games separating the #1 from #8 seeds and all winning 50 or more games, really you can just toss darts at the board to pick the 2-7 slots. Only Phoenix should slip and they'll probably be replaced by either Memphis or Houston.
 
On paper, the jazz look worse. This is because most of the stats are offensive. The current Jazz lineup may not have the offensive numbers that they had last year. However, they are much better on the defensive end. Plus Utah appears to have gotten improvement from Miles, Price, Ak and Fes. The real key to the Jazz season will be Jefferson to a large extent. Can he produce in the jazz system? Preseason indicates that he can.

I see the Jazz being in the top 10 defensive teams this year and could be on offense as well. The thunder are missing an inside presence so they will rely on driving the lane and shooting. Effective but not reliable. Nuggets who knows what they will look like, but the added length in utah matches up better with them. Portland, They have a lot of talent, but do they have a team? Spurs could be really scary even with a slowed duncan. Dallas similar to denver. The clippers could be good, but they are the clippers and will find a way to loose. LA is still the team to beat, but if you stop gasol you increase your chances of winning. Make them a one dementional team (kobe).
 
Its funny how a lot of them are saying Dwill is the best PG, and Jefferson is a huge upgrade from Booze, yet we still get ranked low. Our supporting cast isnt getting the cred the deserve.
 
YB85 said:
These "experts" only know about the Lakers and the Thunder in the west. All the rest is just a bunch of ************ doing what they do best: bullshitting.
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1) So you don't get an infraction, you may wanna change that.
2) How the **** do you have four reps points? I thought it wasn't even possible for us laymen.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
1. The last word in your post. Obviously it should have been filtered out but I guess that particular word found a loophole.
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I would guess that word will find it's way into the filter pretty quickly here...

But no reason to penalize YB for the filter's inability.
 
I'm so sick of the media swinging from OKC's *******. Don't get me wrong, I think Durrant is the TRUTH and I expect them to give everybody fits, but over the course of a long, drawn-out, 82 game season I'll take Utah. If we look back on last year, OKC did manage a 8 seed and they did take the Lakers to 7 games, but they present some decent match-up problems for LA. Keeping that up over an entire season is a totally different beast and is something this very young team has yet to do.
 
- Most of so-called "experts" that shared their predictions knows no more than the fans of the teams that are not called Celtics, Lakers, Heat, Mavs and some other big market teams.
- Surprisingly, Tim Legler picked the Jazz as 4th in the west. However, not surprisingly, he said something like "Millsap is a 20-10 guy and he will even be an upgrade over Carlos". He says it because he was among ESPN members that made live game coverage of Jazz-Nuggets series. And I bet that he did not watch any single Jazz game to that date. They build their opinions on what they see but what they see is not more than 3-4 games a year for Jazz. If the reason why he picks the Jazz as 4th in the West is his high expectations from Paul, I'm not buying it. He does not have the knowledge to say that "Millsap is a hustler, has high basketball IQ, does not need to the sets to play on him to be effective. He is an upgrade over Carlos because of formerly mentioned reasons and because Carlos does not know how to defend at all". All remembers is that Millsap was the MAN in game 6 against Nuggs.
- Korver is overrated. He is a great shooter and ....what else he does better than Hayward, AK, CJ, Bell ? Maybe rebounding. The Jazz has been defensively flawed. That's not only because of frontcourt but also of the softness and inconsistency of SG-SF spot. Korver will be missed but his defense (which I think he has improved throughout his caree with our team) and one-dimensional game will not. His outside shooting threat and what it bought to Jazz offense cannot be ignored, however, the improvements we have seen in CJ's game and the fact that Raja Bell is a career +%40 shooter will make it harder for us to miss 3 pt specialist Korver.
- The standings based on average of the standing arrangement of all experts contributed to the work shows the Jazz as 6th in the West. There's a common agreement on the top3 as LA, OKC and DAL. IMO, it's the injuries that will decide on the standings (except for top seed, LA).
 
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