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On the plus side, ya'll don't need to see me drone on game after game about our 1-day-rest game futility.

Sorry to say this when you're in mourning, but doesn't eFG% need to disregard FT made?

I intend to keep track until we break the streak, just because it's such a weird stat: Jazz are now 0-18 on the season in games with 1 day of rest, an outcome nearing a 1 in 1900 likelihood, with a -16.9 net rating in these games. (For what it's worth, it's clear that offensive performance is...

If the Jazz get "interrogated" by the league about Markkanen, at this point they have a very useful stat on their side. Markkanen is 38th in total minutes played this season, despite the Jazz being a game down from league average in games played. That puts him alongside players like Cade...

Tanking is a tactic. Rebuilding is a strategy. Nobody's end goal is to tank/lose games. The goal is to build better over the long run. Tanking can be a tactic within rebuilding, but it is not the end in and of itself. We traded for the draft pick that became Keyonte, ultimately, not because we...

To me, you've given the definition of rebuilding. Tanking can be part of rebuilding, but it's not equivalent to it. Rebuilding is much broader. (But no need to have this old argument again.)

Given the Jazz's current winning percentage (without taking strength of opponent into account), the likelihood of a 0-17 record with 1 day of rest is somewhere in the 1 out of 1500 neighborhood.

PS -- Jazz's upcoming schedule is real, too.

The current splits are real, if B-Ref is accurate. Randomness is a funny thing.

Aha! I have discovered the key for the Jazz tanking this season (or at least a guide for whether to watch the games): Back to backs: 5-3 record; -1.3 net rating 2 days rest: 5-4 record; -3.1 net rating 3+ days rest: 3-0 record; +11.3 net rating 1 day rest: 0-17 record; -15.2 net rating So...

A hypothetical I'm sure nobody wants to entertain (I'm sure it won't happen, and I don't want to get bogged down by the mechanics of how it might be be detected, but just curious for the sake of argument): If the penalty for being investigated and found "guilty" of tanking was losing the...

Watched the following podcast featuring a U. of Utah professor thinking it might obliquely provide some insight into NBA tanking culture. And while I think there are some things that may potentially apply to tanking (though the subject is never directly broached) , I ended up being enriched by...

When? I thought we never had an official measurement on him. He didn't measure for the combine, at least.

You all remember the last time he played when he was reportedly sick?

Any correlation with opponents' assists? (Does preventing assists help winning?)