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Jazz 2017/18 Playoff Bus! All Aboard!

As high as my hopes were for today nothing went right. Should have known better than to put my faith in any east teams...
 
JazzyFresh said:
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The Jazz were in a 4-way tie at 40-30 with San Antonio, Minnesota and New Orleans. The tie-breaker was conference record in this case.

Yeah, Minnesota lost.
 
clippers playing well right now. They have a solid team as I said before. Losing griffin was a blessing for them.
 
fallenchicken said:
I still don't get why people would rather play OKC than Portland. We match up way better with Portland than OKC. And Steven Adams is the guy in the league who seems to give Gobert the toughest time. We need Gobert to own if we are going to win a series. Let OKC take the third seed and lets hold on to the fourth or fifth and have a battle of Dame vs Dame 2.0
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I agree. Portland has given us problems in the past but with Exum back, we have 3 good defensive PGs to help cover the perimeter against Lillard and CJ. You don't really worry about anyone else on their team. Also Portland cannot force turnovers, which can be a problem for us against longer teams.
 
Clips behind by a few now. I’m okay with that because making the playoffs is the first goal and knocking 1 of 2 teams out of contention is probably the right step. POR is just playing out of their mind lately and will be hard to catch.
 
I'd like to get to 49 or 50 wins, take the 4th seed and host a series. That would be awesome. Probably, we'd be dealing with the Thunder.
 
If the Jazz win their next two games against ATL and DAL, they win their remaining game against MEM, their two games against the LAL, their home game against BOS, and one of their remaining games against GSW (with KD and Klay out), and their home game against the Clippers --- that's 48 wins. An additional win or two against GSW, SAS, MIN or POR gets us to 49 or 50 wins and possibly home court in the first round.
 
Catchall said:
If the Jazz win their next two games against ATL and DAL, they win their remaining game against MEM, their two games against the LAL, their home game against BOS, and one of their remaining games against GSW (with KD and Klay out), and their home game against the Clippers --- that's 48 wins. An additional win or two against GSW, SAS, MIN or POR gets us to 49 or 50 wins and possibly home court in the first round.
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That is unbelievable!!! We lost a franchise player... had injuries to our best player... gave the ball to a rookie all year in crunch time, traded away our second best scorer, had a 18 - 34 start, and we...

Nearly match our record from the previous year!?!?!?!
 
fallenchicken said:
I still don't get why people would rather play OKC than Portland. We match up way better with Portland than OKC. And Steven Adams is the guy in the league who seems to give Gobert the toughest time. We need Gobert to own if we are going to win a series. Let OKC take the third seed and lets hold on to the fourth or fifth and have a battle of Dame vs Dame 2.0
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So true. OKC is bad matchup for us. Doesn't mean Portland is easy in any way, but we match up better. OKC has Adams who is one of the few centers in this league who makes it difficult for Gobert, plus Westbrook, a rim attacking machine who might be bothered by Gobert but is also one of the few guards that will manage to draw fouls from him. I don't like that matchup one bit.

We should try to keep on winning as much as possible and see what happens, no need to get all calculating at this stage anyway, but if on the last game of the year there is a decision to make between finishing 6th and playing Portland or finishing 5th and playing OKC... well I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of the staff.
 
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