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They still have 10 games against tanking teams and two games at the end of the season against good teams that will likely rest their players. If the Jazz manage to start tanking seriously then the Pels will pass them. Also, the Jazz will play New Orleans three times.

Cody with seven rebounds - it never happened before. Like, literally.

Flip saved the tank by covering Vucevic from a non-existent threat in the front. And that is the problem with Flip playing the center. Its not just that he is unathletic and has short arms - he is also slow in processing where he needs to be on defense when people are moving fast.

But have you considered their likely competition in the potential play-ins? The Bulls, Hawks, Bucks... Their mental stamina is in the same tier but they have much less talent on the court. The Cavs will advance.

Folks are dreaming about the Cavs falling in the lottery... except they won't. The Cavs are consistently losing a half of their games, but so is everybody else in the East. They will be sitting in this 5-8 range forever.

Cody and Ace play so similar right now. The hope is that both of them could expand their game.

I actually think that Hardy overdid it a bit. He put out a starting five where the only scoring threat and the only playmaker was Keyonte. That is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on your young point guard. There was nobody else among the starters who could even dribble or bring the ball...

When your team loses by 55 points someone is bound to end up with the eye-popping negative numbers due to unlucky substitution patterns.

In the last 6 games Cody got 5 FTs twice. That matched his career-high posted almost a year ago. He is much more aggressive now. Cody is getting visibly better literally every game.

At 36 MPG Lauri plays more minutes than most of the NBA stars. He has also missed only 5 games, way below average for stars players. The Jazz can easily play him a bit less without any repercussions.

I agree with myself too... but Boozer was also born in Germany.

For what it is worth the Jazz' strength lays into attracting and maximizing quiet European players (AK, Memo, Lopez, Lauri, Bojan, Gobert). They have exactly zero experience in dealing with American-born divas who burned bridges with their teams.

Opposing players shoot 15% higher than expected when defended by Anderson. This is the worst defended % differential in the entire league for any player who played non-negligible minutes. This differential is much, much worse than what (supposedly horrible defender) Keyonte has. Anderson has...

Now with AD getting injured the chances that Dallas goes full-speed into the tank are very, very high. Washington seems to have already entered it as by trading two key veterans. And the Jazz are soon having two more games against Dallas: if they win them Dallas is likely going to clinch the...

Also, are the Jazz planning to play Zion this season to see what they got? If so, what about keeping the 2026 pick?