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Jazz are #5 on ESPN Power Rankings

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Elizah Huge

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Just updated 30 minutes ago here is the new power rankings on ESPN:

1. Golden State Warriors

2. San Antonio Spurs

3. Houston Rockets

4. Cleveland Cavaliers

5. Utah Jazz
2016-17 record: 43-27
Previous ranking: 7

Utah's four-game swing through the East started with some promise; holding Detroit to 83 points bumped the Jazz to 11-0 this season when the opposition fails to reach 85 points. But Utah will need a win Monday night at Indiana to come away with a split for the trip after losses in Cleveland and Chicago in which the visitors were the ones who couldn't score (totaling 83 and 86 points). There is also growing concern in the SLC that neither Derrick Favors nor Rodney Hood will be able shake the knee injuries that have plagued them; all season in Favors' case and for the past two months in Hood's. The Jazz are 9-6 in their past 15 games as they try to cling to the West's No. 4 seed and home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. And this team, more than ever, seems to go as Gordon Hayward goes. Utah's lone All-Star is averaging 23.8 PPG on .494 shooting (.451 on 3s) in those past nine wins. In those past six losses, Hayward is averaging 12.5 PPG and shooting just 32.5 percent from the field (.333 on 3s).
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6. Boston Celtics

7. Washington Wizards

8. Toronto Raptors

9. Oklahoma City Thunder

10. Miami Heat

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18959689/nba-power-rankings-marc-stein-week-22-rankings

After back-to-back losses we are still a top-5 team in the league. We are still the 4th seed in the West. We still have homecourt advantage. We still have a two-game lead over the Clippers (who didn't even crack the top-10).
 
With our schedule compared to the Clippers, I have a hard time seeing us actually finishing 4th. Clippers 8 of their last 12 are against non-playoff teams with 6 of those games basically guaranteed wins against "tanking teams". I really think the Jazz are going to at least have to win 7 of their next 12 including the Clipper game to hang on. The Bulls loss is really really big. Thankfully tie breaker goes to division winner with OKC, not having as tough of a remaining schedule as the Jazz, but it certainly isn't a cake walk.

With that being said... we definitely are a top 5 team right now. 13th offensive rating, 3rd defensive rating, 4th net rating. These are all-season stats so we have trended downward with a tougher schedule but it is encouraging for sure.
 
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With the way OKC is playing it might be time to worry about them more than LAC, that trade with the Bulls is starting to show and pay off.
 
MDAV28 said:
With our schedule compared to the Clippers, I have a hard time seeing us actually finishing 4th. Clippers 8 of their last 12 are against non-playoff teams with 6 of those games basically guaranteed wins against "tanking teams". I really think the Jazz are going to at least have to win 7 of their next 12 including the Clipper game to hang on. The Bulls loss is really really big. Thankfully tie breaker goes to division winner with OKC, not having as tough of a remaining schedule as the Jazz, but it certainly isn't a cake walk.

With that being said... we definitely are a top 5 team right now. 13th offensive rating, 3rd defensive rating, 4th net rating. These are all-season stats so we have trended downward with a tougher schedule but it is encouraging for sure.
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Jazz will be lucky to finish 6th. Clippers will win the season series against us and OKC already has. We still play like pansies against playoff teams, so it's only gonna get uglier...
 
akirac73 said:
Jazz will be lucky to finish 6th. Clippers will win the season series against us and OKC already has. We still play like pansies against playoff teams, so it's only gonna get uglier...
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yeah. like that win against clippers and road win against rockets and wizard right? cmon man. have some faith. I believe in jazz


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