Game 1 of the Semifinals
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Sean
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Supposedly but I've been to a few Sunday playoff games and they've always been packed.
As a show of goodwill, Ryan Smith should invite the entire winning team of the Dal/LAC series to dinner before game one at Zupas.
Miggs
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Silver rigging everything for the Jazz!!!
Miggs
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Conley sat out 18 days last time and the injury still came back despite that time and rehabbing. And you wanna bring him back six days later? That’s not wise.
Obviously we don’t know the severity of this. Did it slightly pull? A little tug? Less with just a small strain? This matters. I’m hoping he just felt it start to tighten up and it was more precautionary than anything. I’m also praying we get the Mavs. Not saying they’d be an easy out. They won’t be. But I like our chances much more.
Ideally, the Mavs win and we sit Conley until we lose and we are able to win games 1 and 2 at home. If we lost game 3, we could trot him out there for game 4 which will have been 12 days after this most recent incident and game.
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Yes, obviously this injury is either more serve then we ever knew, highly likely, or it has become chronic, in which case he will be in a pattern of play 5 games, miss 10, likely for the rest of his career. Hopefully it can recover enough for the playoffs. This is our best chance and we need all our weapons in play.
And really hopefully it can heal fully at some point, but with this hanging out there I sure hope the jazz don't commit too much to him for next season.
The whole "can't draw a crowd on Sunday" thing flies out the window during the playoffs.
Sean
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I'd wager it would fly out the window during the regular season, too. Of course, even weekday games sometimes don't sell out. But say it's Jazz vs Lakers on Sunday, February Whatever - we're packing that arena in.
I think initially it might have been done as a concern about attendance. You know, back when the Jazz was struggling to draw at the old Salt Palace.
Just randomly looking at it. In 1984-85 season, the Jazz had multiple Sunday home games (and some in Vegas). The last regular season game at home on Sunday that season was against the Chicago Bulls. Jazz won 110-92 and attendance was just 8,953. The Salt Palace this season sat 12,666. So, roughly 71% capacity. Not good, especially when you're looking at such a small arena (even in the 80s, the Salt Palace was one of the smallest arenas in the NBA).
It looks like Sunday games were dropped shortly after - my guess is when Larry Miller took full control of the franchise.
I know Gail Miller said that they felt it would be very difficult drawing crowds on Sundays, pointing to the playoffs (stating past series hadn't drawn well) but I don't believe that.
In Utah's second-ever playoff game at the Delta Center, against the Clippers during the 1992 season, the Jazz drew 19,911 - a sell out.
Granted, I do believe it's easier to draw Sunday crowds during the playoff, and certainly, a possible sell out might not happen if it's the Timberwolves. But it's not like there aren't times the Jazz failed to sell the arena out during the regular season on weeknight games.
I say bring it back! The No Sunday rule puts the franchise at a disadvantage.