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https://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/...-phoenix-suns-needs-knee-surgery-indefinitely

The Suns could easily pull their tank out of storage by moving Frye and/or Dragic. That may seem like a better alternative than barely making or barely missing the playoffs, which is where I would expect them to land playing without Bledsoe for a long stretch.

I think hornacek has been so good that they will continue trying to make the playoffs cause they are such a great story and hornacek will probably get coach of the year (he should anyway) which is something for a franchise to hang thier hat on.
 
Earlier in the week I saw a discussion about how many wins the teams had in the past and how their positions were in the standings. I don't really know in which thread that was so I just put it in here because it also fits in this thread I guess. I left out the shortdend 11/12 season becauce I was too lazy to do the win percentages. But what ever here it is:

[table="width: 700, class: grid, align: center"]
[tr]
[td]Lotto[/td]
[td]03/04[/td]
[td]04/05[/td]
[td]05/06[/td]
[td]06/07[/td]
[td]07/08[/td]
[td]08/09[/td]
[td]09/10[/td]
[td]10/11[/td]
[td]12/13[/td]
[td]Average since 2003[/td]
[td]Last 5[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]1st[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]13[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]22[/td]
[td]15[/td]
[td]17[/td]
[td]12[/td]
[td]17[/td]
[td]20[/td]
[td]17,6[/td]
[td]16,2[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]2nd[/td]
[td]23[/td]
[td]18[/td]
[td]23[/td]
[td]24[/td]
[td]20[/td]
[td]19[/td]
[td]15[/td]
[td]19[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]20,2[/td]
[td]18,8[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]3rd[/td]
[td]25[/td]
[td]18[/td]
[td]26[/td]
[td]28[/td]
[td]22[/td]
[td]19[/td]
[td]25[/td]
[td]22[/td]
[td]24[/td]
[td]23,2[/td]
[td]22,4[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]4h[/td]
[td]28[/td]
[td]26[/td]
[td]26[/td]
[td]30[/td]
[td]22[/td]
[td]23[/td]
[td]26[/td]
[td]23[/td]
[td]25[/td]
[td]25,5[/td]
[td]23,8[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]5th[/td]
[td]28[/td]
[td]27[/td]
[td]27[/td]
[td]31[/td]
[td]23[/td]
[td]24[/td]
[td]26[/td]
[td]24[/td]
[td]27[/td]
[td]26,3[/td]
[td]24,8[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]6th[/td]
[td]33[/td]
[td]30[/td]
[td]33[/td]
[td]32[/td]
[td]23[/td]
[td]24[/td]
[td]27[/td]
[td]24[/td]
[td]28[/td]
[td]28,2[/td]
[td]25,2[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]7th[/td]
[td]33[/td]
[td]33[/td]
[td]33[/td]
[td]32[/td]
[td]26[/td]
[td]29[/td]
[td]27[/td]
[td]30[/td]
[td]29[/td]
[td]30,2[/td]
[td]28,2[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]8th[/td]
[td]35[/td]
[td]33[/td]
[td]34[/td]
[td]33[/td]
[td]32[/td]
[td]32[/td]
[td]29[/td]
[td]32[/td]
[td]29[/td]
[td]32,1[/td]
[td]30,8[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

The Jazz currently have 12 wins. And are playing .500 basketball since Trey and Williams are in the S5. There are 45 games left so at this pace the Jazz would win about 34 games. So that wouldn't leave the team with one of the worst 8 records. Let's see what some other paces would work out.

.450 ball
Wins: 32
Avg. since 2003: 8th
Last 5: better

.400 ball
Wins: 30
Avg. since 2003: 7th
Last 5: 8th

.350 ball
Wins: 28
Avg. since 2003: 6th
Last 5: 7th

.300 ball
Wins: 25,5
Avg. since 2003: 4th
Last 5: 6th

Obviously this is not the perfect system and I didn't even draw the oder teams and their current records in consideration but I think the table gives us a good overview about what the Jazz have to do(or not to do) to have a good chance to get a top pick. Having said that I really don't like the last 5 years and how the league is developing. The good teams especially comin playoff time are really competitive and it is really fun to watch the most of the games but it is really scarry how bad the bottom of the league has become.
 
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