2025 Playoffs Chat & Chill Thread

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Dont think the Jazz would be putting up this performance vs the Celtics.

Yeah, playoffs are a different animal. You've got to have dynamic scorers.

 

[idiot]

The top teams are teaching me that we probably should’ve unloaded Lauri before this last year when his stock was higher for picks. We lack so much height, length, athleticism, and shooting. I think the only young player we have who could start for these teams might be Kessler. Our young wings and guards probably wouldn’t even play. We might be 3 years away from sniffing the playoffs TBH. We really should’ve tanked the right way from day 1 instead of delaying this process for 2 years.

The conclusion after watching the curb stomping the Thunder (the team of all the so-called tanking teams that depends on their "tank" the least) put on the Grizzlies is that we should have tanked more?

This kind of logic is why I find trust in tanking to be more of an article of faith than something that we've really looked at seriously and examined empirically.

 

[fishonjazz]

The top teams are teaching me that we probably should’ve unloaded Lauri before this last year when his stock was higher for picks. We lack so much height, length, athleticism, and shooting. I think the only young player we have who could start for these teams might be Kessler. Our young wings and guards probably wouldn’t even play. We might be 3 years away from sniffing the playoffs TBH. We really should’ve tanked the right way from day 1 instead of delaying this process for 2 years.

If we get Cooper then the tank was successful despite the horrible tank the last two years.
If not then this sucks

 

[slc]

If we get Cooper then the tank was successful despite the horrible tank the last two years.
If not then this sucks

Cooper would be great but to get #2 or #3 would be very good too

 

[NUMBERICA]

I just noticed that the 8th seed in the Western Conference has 48 wins while the 8th seed in the Eastern Conference has 37.

37 wins… while playing in the Eastern Conference, no less

 

[Deleted member 365]

If we get Cooper then the tank was successful despite the horrible tank the last two years.
If not then this sucks

Good point.

And then we need the 2026 pick to be good and we need something out of our last two years of picks to show some life. Hendricks, Sensabaugh, Key, or Collier need to make a drastic step. I don’t count Williams, because I think he’s a gigantic bust already and will be out of the league once his rookie contract expires.

 

[MTS]

I think the current Jazz are as good as this Orlando team. Jazz beat the Magic twice this year, both games by 13 pts.

Offensively sure, defensively they're elite and we're the worst in the league.

 

[David Hume]

Careful, Jazzfanz. We are viewed with suspicion.

 

[The Midnight]

Let’s go Rockets!

Put an end to this Warriors ‘dynasty’.

Just so sick of it.. lol

 

[MTS]

Houston's big problem is that their main strengths are exactly the kinds of things that tend to not translate to the playoffs.

 

[MTS]

Trying to think of a top 2 seed that was a bigger fraud than this Rockets team.

Don't think one exists.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Trying to think of a top 2 seed that was a bigger fraud than this Rockets team.

Don't think one exists.

Jazz are going to be better than the Rockets in the future. I'm surprised they were able to finagle a #2 seed.