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Game Thread Oct 29, 2025 07:00PM MT: Portland Trail Blazers @ Utah Jazz

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whole new level to the old "Jailblazers" having their coach headed there

It crawls out of its hole...

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Kessler vs Clingan is always fun to watch. Also, they are pretty big across multiple positions: it would be fun to see the Jazz finally playing a team that is not tiny and not old.
 
Last season we split both home and away series against them, Two losses came by 2 points, and one win came in OT while the outlier was us blowing them out by 42 points. So I expect a close game.

I haven't watched Blazers much this year but at least in theory Yang provides them with some extra size so they may match up better against us than they did last year. However seeing he has only averaged 6.3 minutes per game thus far makes me think he may not be a factor and our size may still be an issue for them even without Nurk.

Their main weapon against us (and others) has been to pressure the lead ball handler, attack passing lanes and force turnovers in general... but we have improved on that front this year a lot (Keyonte in particular).
 
Statistical gimmie would be to say that they should win the TO battle and FB points and we are gonna win OREB and 2CP columns.. If the margins are similar on those areas then this comes down more to which team scores more efficiently in regular half-court offense, and there advantage should be ours since the game is played in SLC and I doubt their half-court offense has been rolling way better than ours so far.
 
Last season we split both home and away series against them, Two losses came by 2 points, and one win came in OT while the outlier was us blowing them out by 42 points. So I expect a close game.

I haven't watched Blazers much this year but at least in theory Yang provides them with some extra size so they may match up better against us than they did last year. However seeing he has only averaged 6.3 minutes per game thus far makes me think he may not be a factor and our size may still be an issue for them even without Nurk.

Their main weapon against us (and others) has been to pressure the lead ball handler, attack passing lanes and force turnovers in general... but we have improved on that front this year a lot (Keyonte in particular).
Yang sucks right now. Can't really play without fouling. They throw him out there just to get some XP, but I'm guessing when William a gets healthy he plays and Gang goes to the G
 
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