How are we number 8 in these power rankings???? Seriously?????

[sirkickyass]

https://thehasbeenssports.com/2010/07/15/midsummer-western-conference-rankings/

I'm kinda shocked to be honest. I figured we'd be in the 5-7 range, but not 8. We're much, much, much better than that I think. Jefferson + Bell + Hayward? Boozer & Korver can be replaced, IMO...what does everyone think?

The article is poorly written and badly reasoned at best. No reason to take it seriously.

My favorite part was the statement that "With a starting 5 of Kidd, Butler, Marion, Nowitzki and Haywood, this team is primed for a major playoff run." What? You mean the same starting 5 that got toasted in the first round by the 7 seed?

 

[LiemD]

all this don't matter, let's see how we play the games...This is all roster on paper talk...

 

[Inn Dawn]

And LOL @ the notion of Kyle Korver being a "key" piece. Was he ever a key piece for us, I mean, really? The *******'s defining moment was neglecting to take the three in the closing seconds of that Laker playoff game a couple years ago. Good riddance.

 

[The-Joker]

Like always as long as we don't draw the lakers we can beat any team in the league in a 7 game series. Even San Antonio isn't safe anymore. So whether Dallas or Denver or Seattle has a better record than us, they don't want to play us, and I feel the Jazz free agency storm isn't over yet which could even more solidify us.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Like always as long as we don't draw the lakers we can beat any team in the league in a 7 game series. Even San Antonio isn't safe anymore. So whether Dallas or Denver or Seattle has a better record than us, they don't want to play us, and I feel the Jazz free agency storm isn't over yet which could even more solidify us.

Lets hope either Portland or OKC play LA in playoffs before we do. If Blazers are 100% healthy in terms of big men, they can beat LA, and same goes for OKC.

 

[anonymous832]

Lets hope either Portland or OKC play LA in playoffs before we do. If Blazers are 100% healthy in terms of big men, they can beat LA, and same goes for OKC.

Rofl rofl

Also, no they can't. Portland has plenty of depth along the frontline, but people severely overrate their actual talent. They have one truly great player and a bunch of decent (and in some cases injury-prone) role players. When Aldridge is your second-best player, you're not going anywhere.

Also, OKC doesn't have any good big men. Aldrich measured shorter than people expected; can't match up with the Laker bigs. Plus, he's a rookie anyway, so it's uncertain what he'll be able to bring in year one.

 

[Deleted member 365]

lol.

Why is Dallas ranked so high? They were punked last year and aren't any better. They aint getting any younger either.

Denver? Please, they're not getting any younger and looked like crap as we dismantled them without HC advantage and 2 big pieces of our starting 5. They haven't done one thing to address their SG or frontcourt positions. Al Harrington doesn't give them anything other than a player who will clash with Melo for chucking jumpers.

I also love hearing about how "great" Houston is going to be.

The Rockets were 42-40 and contending for the 8th and final playoff spot late into the season without Yao Ming last year. Now that the big man is finally healthy again, look for the Rockets to be a force. And look for a full year of Kevin Martin to be a major boost for this team.

I think most sports writers have the same template for the Rockets. Basically, this exact same thing could have been written about them for the past 10 years. Just change Kevin Martin's name to Tracy McGrady and you'd have the exact same "prediction" 5 years ago.

Even when healthy, I would hardly consider the Rockets a force. They haven't been a force since 95.

 

[sirslimjim]

Why do power rankings even matter to people? Whether some sports writer ranks us #1 or #30 has no effect on how many wins we're going to get next season. In some ways, I think its better to be ranked lower only because maybe our players will read that and want to prove them wrong.

 

[Stifle Tower]

People who don't follow the Jazz closely tend to think Carlos Boozer is a superstar based on his stats but they don't know that he doesn't play defense and misses 50% of his games. So who cares about what they think?

We have to be better than the Spurs and the Blazers at this point, no doubt about that.

I agree. Carlos is overvalued because he put up good stats on a good team. Jefferson is undervalued because he played for a terrible team. I mean how could Al be any good? He couldn't even help the TWolves avoid losing 60 games. We're going to be much, much better than most people think. I wouldn;t be surprised at the end of the year to be sitting in the #2 slot with Al having a 23/12 year.

 

[Stifle Tower]

And LOL @ the notion of Kyle Korver being a "key" piece. Was he ever a key piece for us, I mean, really? The *******'s defining moment was neglecting to take the three in the closing seconds of that Laker playoff game a couple years ago. Good riddance.

Well, he did average 7/2/2 in 20 mins. I mean, how could Homzward ever equal those stats?

 

[C l u t c H 385]

There's a lot of bad teams in the NBA.

 

[NotDeadYet]

Lol; I doubt if these rather swift moves by the Jazz brass have totally sunk in with the NBA prognosticators. I'm betting the Lakers have noticed... I expect ESPN won't notice anyone outside Miami and LA all year...