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Game Thread Apr 18, 2022 06:30PM MT: Jazz at Mavericks - Game 2

Added to Calendar: 04-18-22

Avery said:
A 2-0 lead? What could possibly go wrong?

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Hey we are great at beating the odds. 2-0 lead with home court last year? 94% of the time that team wins, we hit the 6% long odd! The year before, 3-1 lead? 95% of the time that team wins. We beat the 5% long odds there too! We are the long odds team! We can do the virtually impossible!
 
I joked after last year's playoff collapse, and then again all season, that the only thing left for a Quin-led playoff team was to blow a 3-0 series lead.

No way that happens but if there's ever a dynamic built for it, I'd wager it could be a situation similar to what we're seeing play out:

The team with home court doesn't have its best player for the first three games.

The other team DOES take advantage of this by getting wins, but the wins against the team without their best player are closer than they maybe should be (this, of course, remains to be seen).

The team that goes up 3-0 has a recent history of some pretty amazing choke jobs, including blowing a 3-1 series lead despite leading by 15 points midway through the third quarter of a potential close-out game five, and then a year later, blowing a 25 point lead in a must-win game six after blowing a 2-0 series lead.

Game seven, if it gets that far, will be in Dallas, not Salt Lake.

Do I think it'll happen? Nah. I actually think Utah has a better chance of losing tomorrow than blowing a 3-0 lead but if the Jazz do win these next three games, and Luka is back for game four in SLC and Dallas wins, not going to lie, my butthole will tighten just a bit.
 
Sean said:
I joked after last year's playoff collapse, and then again all season, that the only thing left for a Quin-led playoff team was to blow a 3-0 series lead.

No way that happens but if there's ever a dynamic built for it, I'd wager it could be a situation similar to what we're seeing play out:

The team with home court doesn't have its best player for the first three games.

The other team DOES take advantage of this by getting wins, but the wins against the team without their best player are closer than they maybe should be (this, of course, remains to be seen).

The team that goes up 3-0 has a recent history of some pretty amazing choke jobs, including blowing a 3-1 series lead despite leading by 15 points midway through the third quarter of a potential close-out game five, and then a year later, blowing a 25 point lead in a must-win game six after blowing a 2-0 series lead.

Game seven, if it gets that far, will be in Dallas, not Salt Lake.

Do I think it'll happen? Nah. I actually think Utah has a better chance of losing tomorrow than blowing a 3-0 lead but if the Jazz do win these next three games, and Luka is back for game four in SLC and Dallas wins, not going to lie, my butthole will tighten just a bit.
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Mitchell, Gobert and Bogdanovic looked like the three best players on the floor in Game 1. I'd like to see Conley and Clarkson break out a bit more.
 
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