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Game Thread Feb 09, 2026 05:30PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Miami Heat

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infection said:
They will and I don’t anticipate that we’d otherwise lose every game, but I believe the ease with which we’ll pick up losses is being greatly overestimated. It’s kind of reminiscent of some type of inverse of “don’t worry, Quin is going to deploy his secret weapons. He has [whatever playoff opponent] exactly where he wants them,” only to be summarily dismissed from the postseason.

I’d like to see the data on teams tanking with 3 active guys in the rotation who are in reasonable all star discussion. There’s a lot more heavy lifting there than it appears.

We’re counting lots of chickens while painting Easter eggs.
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You're making a lot of false comparisons.

The Jazz have far more control over losing games than teams do of winning a championship, or having success by "deploying secret weapons".
 
jazznik said:
The Jazz can't lose a home game to Sacramento. Nobody can. The Kings lost 14 road games in a row, with their last road victory happening on December 6.
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We can sit everyone and roll out a lineup of Konchar/Cody/Oscar/Vince/Collier. We should at least stand a chance.
 
MTS said:
You're making a lot of false comparisons.

The Jazz have far more control over losing games than teams do of winning a championship, or having success by "deploying secret weapons".
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In theory. When you’ve got 39% of games left against other tanking (or haplessly incapable) teams, who also have more control over losing games than winning them, it’s a huge blindspot and a massive overassumption.
 
infection said:
In theory. When you’ve got 39% of games left against other tanking (or haplessly incapable) teams, who also have more control over losing games than winning them, it’s a huge blindspot and a massive overassumption.
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Which is why it's a good thing that the Jazz are currently 6th, with a 96.2% chance of keeping their pick. And the Pelicans, who don't have a pick this year and no incentive to tank, have been coming on strong lately, and are only 2 games behind.

If the Jazz go full psycho tank, the Pels would almost certainly pass them, which would mean that they'd need all three of the Grizzlies, Bucks, and Mavs to finish with a worse record than them before their odds of keeping the pick fall below 85.8%.
 
MTS said:
Which is why it's a good thing that the Jazz are currently 6th, with a 96.2% chance of keeping their pick. And the Pelicans, who don't have a pick this year and no incentive to tank, have been coming on strong lately, and are only 2 games behind.

If the Jazz go full psycho tank, the Pels would almost certainly pass them, which would mean that they'd need all three of the Grizzlies, Bucks, and Mavs to finish with a worse record than them before their odds of keeping the pick fall below 85.8%.
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The Jazz medical staff needs to get busy treating contusions, strains and bum elbows with the utmost care.
 
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Its funny that we go on the road against a tryhard Heat team, give them 44 FTA, shoot 27.8% from 3, pull the starters in 3rd quarter and still cant manage to lose the game.

We would have blown out both Heat and Magic in their buildings if we actually tried.
 
Boler calling Nurk Jokic not once, but twice. Excellent.

Hardy drawing up an oob play for the final play where Flip and Collier run into each other. Masterclass.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Would have been traded either way mist likely
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Eh, I feel like we could have sent brice, or whatever, instead. I don't think the grizz really cared who we gave them. They wanted picks and the ability to tank and some young prospects.

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