Shocked the Jazz pulled off that 0-3 stretch vs 3 fellow tankers
2024-2025 Tank Race
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LoL..
In the Jazz vs 76ers tank-off Nick Nurse challenged the call that could have given the Jazz a chance win.
76ers GM must be tearing his hair out with that.
In the Jazz vs 76ers tank-off Nick Nurse challenged the call that could have given the Jazz a chance win.
76ers GM must be tearing his hair out with that.
He also played the guys who were making winning plays and benches Drummond/Yabusele who were clearly awful. Nurse is coaching for his reputation.
Jaanipoeg
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Nick Nurse didn't sign up to tank lol
But that would have been too egregious not to at least challenge
Yeah but would he say no to a top 6 pick next year?
Their pick is top 6 protected this year - they’re sitting at #7 currently.
TOR and PHI aren't exactly bogo games...but it was critical to lose them because they have their own tanking aspirations and will tank harder against their upcoming opponents. Raptors have CHO x2 and WAS x2. PHI has WAS x2 and NOP x1. BKN will also be feverishly tanking with them and have WAS and NOP once each.
With loses against WAS and CHO, we could actually take the top spot.
With loses against WAS and CHO, we could actually take the top spot.
Great point regarding that Toronto and Philly are going to tank even harder against Charlotte, Washington, and New Orleans.
Does finishing worst usually guarantee that we DON’T get the top pick?
Coach Ellis
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Only in the sense that the Jazz have a 14% chance to get it and the field has the other 86%. Same exact odds as 2 & 3. It just feels that way because whoever is sitting at #1 moves down if they don’t win the lottery.
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UTA loses by 4
NOP loses by 3
Our record against the bottom teams is truly a work of tanking art.
NOP loses by 3
Our record against the bottom teams is truly a work of tanking art.
We're now 5.5 games out of 5th and have the 3rd most difficult strength of schedule coming up. With this stretch of tanking games I think we can safely rule out 5th worst record and can now start considering the worst record. Or in other words our range of likely outcomes went from 2-5 to 1-4 over the last 5 games.
Honestly getting the worst record will probably be the 3rd best achievement in Jazz franchise history behind the two finals appearances, finishing narrowly above the year they finished with the best record in the NBA (shortened season, so not as impressive).