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Are we just not a very good team?

They have never had a top top draft pick to build around that I can remember. The closest they ever got was Kanter and Exum. To build teams that make the playoffs around guys picked 15th or 28th and other team's castoffs is impressive. If they can stay at least a 5th seed and get psyched up for the playoffs, I would count that as a pretty good season. Once they are in the playoffs, you never know, miracles happen.
 
We’re a soft team that shoots a ton of 3s. When those shots are going in, we’re able to set up our defense and control the tempo. When those shots aren’t going, then teams outrun us and get easy shots.

personally, if I were a team, I’d go small and exploit Bogie and Jingles defensively. I’d also play a smaller but strong defender on Gobert to stop the lob. Gobert seems to struggle posting up against small but physical defenders. Once the lob is stopped, we become one dimensional. Run us off the 3 point line and collect the bricks/turnovers and turn them into run outs.

we need to desperately upgrade the 4/5 spot and get more athletic. I don’t know how you fix our toughness issue since we traded our two toughest players away over the summer.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
I’ve said for weeks our defense is about average. We’ve slipped to 10th in defensive efficiency and I expect us to slip to 12th or so in the coming weeks. There is absolutely nothing special about it outside of Rudy.

Here’s the biggest problem as I see it. Royce should probably start and certainly close. He’s our best perimeter defender in a league that plays small ball and not having him on the court when it matters most is bad. It is a major problem. Rudy, O’Neale and Mitchell absolutely should be closing games. Ingles and Bogey should be the others imo. It just makes too much sense from an offensive, defensive and chemistry standpoint, no matter how much money we pay Mike.

If the guy wants to truly win that badly, he’d suck it up and volunteer to come off the bench. If he wants to have his ego stroked, we need to ship his *** out this summer.
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This summer? Try in the next few days.
 
Nate505 said:
The Jazz are a top 10 team in the NBA. Whether that's "very good" or not is up to interpretation.

I think they will end the year as a top 4 team in the West. Is that very good? I don't know. I don't think they'll win a title this year, but this is the first year in like 10 where I've thought them winning a title is at least plausible.
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it'd be more than just "plausible" if we didn't do the conley trade. our window is really this season cuz warriors gonna come back to full strength next season and KD will make nets a very good team also. it's gonna be tougher to win a title next season
 
Two of the teams we lost too are bad teams.

We're fine. We're just in a defensive funk. Our last 4 games have all rated out as amongst our worst defensively all season.

We'll figure it out and we'll be fine. All teams go through stretches like this over a long season.

We are legit. Relax peeps.
 
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