Game Thread Dec 26, 2025 07:30PM MT: Detroit Pistons @ Utah Jazz

[SoberasHotRod]

Utah just need to make a deal with the league that they won't try to lose in return for a top 4 pick.

 

[Tanktastic]

Yup, everyone is a finished product one third of the way into their 3rd season

No, he isn't. And he has developed in those three years.

But I don't understand (unless someone hasn't watched the games, at all) the idea that we should play him, or anyone else, massive minutes just to "find out what we have". We know what we have. Can he get better? Sure. Will he suddenly turn into Siakam or Kawhi? No, obviously not.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

No, he isn't. And he has developed in those three years.

But I don't understand (unless someone hasn't watched the games, at all) the idea that we should play him, or anyone else, massive minutes just to "find out what we have". We know what we have. Can he get better? Sure. Will he suddenly turn into Siakam or Kawhi? No, obviously not.

Norman Powell did it

 

[HermanG]

Ideally if you win games in a tank season it's against good teams. We had just been making so much progress in the tank race it would have been nice to see us climb that ladder a little.

I think we should not forget what Hardy did with this team in his first two years as a HC. These two games may have not been 100% outliers.

We arent at the level where we are beating either one of Spurs or Pistons consistently, but in both of these games we got equal or better looks so it wasnt just a stroke of luck we ended up winning these games. I think its plausible that another winning record January may be in the cards.