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how can jazz not make the playoff?

AlaskanAssassin said:
Over half of these are probably not true, yet. There is a difference between playing 20 minutes a night versus mostly backups and playing 35 minutes a night versus mostly starters. Kanter and Favors are going to feel the effects of this immediately. In addition, this is a really poor shooting team. I wish we could surround Kanter and Favors with better shooters. I guess Rush helps.
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kanter and favors are clearly better then jefferson
their defense makes up for lack of their offense. jefferson defense negates his offense unless he scores 40+ points.
hayward is clearly better than marvin williams
burks is equal if not better than foye.
only unknown is burke i'll give you that.
but remmeber mo wiliams was out 30+ games. and i think burke is better than watson and tinsley.

so how is half not true.
millsap and carrol gone hurts the jazz playoff chances with the right system and millsap this team would surely make the playoff
 
We will be opposite of last year this year:

Our starters will fight and keep us in games. Our bench will lose us games. We will lose 10+ more games because we do t have anyone to take over the end of games. We might have someone develop into that role by the end of the year, but as of right now, Burke, Burks and Hayward will lose us more games than win us games.
 
dutch makes a good points, but this is really going to come down to whether or not Corbin plays Al Jefferson ahead of Kanter/Favors again.
 
Proof the Lindsay is doing a good job: look at all the old posters that are suddenly back.

The Jazz are interesting once again.
 
I think our starting lineup is better than last year. The reason we don't make the playoffs is because our bench is not even close to as good as last year.
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We went from
Burks, Carroll, Favors, Kanter, and Tinsley as 1st off of the bench. And Hayward for a lot of the season.
to
Jefferson, Evans, Biedrens, Rush and ?????? as 1st off of the bench.
Evans who could not make the rotation at all last year may be one of the 1st off of it this year.
 
how can jazz not make playoofs

easy:
there are 8 teams better than jazz
bad bench
bad vets


wouldnt be sprised if we were better than teh 7/8 seeds in east but we have 0 chance of playoffs in west

u say warriors are yung, but they also had key vets (lee, bogut, landry, jack)
 
Dutch, I agree with your assessment that our starting line-up is better than last season. As others have pointed out, as the starters suffer minor injuries here and there, deal with fatigue, slumps, we have an awful bench that can't match their production. If the front office had signed Will Bynum, Foye, Carroll, and we'd a acquired a decent 3rd big like Robin Lopez, I honestly think we'd be in the mix for the final playoff spot. Our bench went from being the best in the league, to possibly the worst and it's going to cost us several wins.
 
How do we not make the playoffs?

Clippers
Spurs
OKC
Rockets
Memphis
Warriors

Are all likely playoff teams.

Denver
Dallas
Minny

Are probably fighting for the last 2 spots.

Portland
Sacramento
New Orleans
Lakers

Are all likely going to be as good or better than the Jazz.

Jazz
Phoenix

That's your likely bottom 2 for the Western Conference. Yeah, we'll have nights where we look like giant killers, but, we're going to have a lot of painful nights, especially when the bench comes in and on the road.
 
My prediction is 8th worst record. Our young guys as talented as they are will struggle playing 82 games 30 plus minutes a game. Our bench is dreadful. We have Corbin. I just don't think it's possible to be any better than 10 but will settle for 8.
 
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