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Do the Jazz have a top 5 starting lineup?

Tom Pitt

Tom Pitt

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CBS ranked the Jazz starting lineup as the 5th best in the league for the upcoming season. I was interested to get a feel for if the majority here felt the same way.

Additionally, The piece slightly compared the Jazz to those ECF Pacer teams. Anyway, got me thinking, which starting 5 is superior: Hill Stephenson George West Hibbert, or Hill Hood Hayward Favors Gobert? Discuss...

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...arting-lineups-hint-warriors-are-pretty-good/
 
That's an interesting article. I don't agree with all their rankings, and I'm wondering what it's based on. They've underrated Sacramento's starting 5 for sure (Collison/Afflalo/Gay/WCS/Cousins is better than 27th). A team like Houston is starting to look pretty underrated. I think Capella will do well there replacing Howard. Any team with Anthony Davis in the starting line-up has to be top 15 at least. But it's true that the league looks to have a bunch of middling teams. The Jazz *could* rise higher than the pack and get to 50 wins. It's exciting if our young guys can all take a step forward.

Nice to see the Jazz getting some love.
 
My first reaction was definitely not, but then you start to look at who is behind us and it's tough to argue them above us.
 
dipship31 said:
My first reaction was definitely not, but then you start to look at who is behind us and it's tough to argue them above us.
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Agreed. I think it was general consensus the Jazz would have a top 10 starting lineup w/ a good PG and they added Hill. 5 seems a little high still but I would be very surprised if this starting lineup doesn't have great numbers across the board.
 
Just looking at the ones ranked close behind us, I'd probably say Memphis and Atlanta would have a good case, but maybe when you take age and injuries into account we look a bit better.

I think if you go through each one and pick the worst player from each staring 5 we definitely look better than most. It's the other end of the spectrum that people will argue against us.
 
If Exum comes back strong the potential is also there for a top 5 bench. Exum, Burks, JJ, Diaw, Lyles, Mack, Ingles...
 
FTA-

This lineup with Neto last season was the eighth most effective lineup in basketball of units that played at least 300 minutes together.
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If that is a top 8 lineup with Neto, it is hard to argue that replacing Neto with Hill doesn't make it a top 5 lineup, no? What say you, Eeyores?
 
They have no holes but also no superstars... probably a couple/few borderline all stars though.

If Hill fits in like we hope he does and Hood takes a leap like we hope he does then I see no problem with it at all.
 
framer said:
If that is a top 8 lineup with Neto, it is hard to argue that replacing Neto with Hill doesn't make it a top 5 lineup, no? What say you, Eeyores?
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It's not...There were only 26 5-man lineups that played 300+ minutes last season. The lineup stays in roughly the same (relative) position after decreasing the minutes minimum to 200 -- at 17th of 52 (the lineup with Mack instead of Neto was 15th). Same thing at 100 minutes, where that lineup is 45th of 135 -- basically, the lineup finished just below the 70th percentile.
 
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