I think the Jazz finish 11-7 for the rest of the games. That puts us at 40-42 and missing the playoffs by 1 game. But I am hoping they get on a streak and win an extra 2 games and get to .500. I think .500 makes the playoffs this year.
Frankly it is amazing we have this record with the amount of injuries we have had, the youth of this team and the lack of depth. Look at the roster of Dallas they have so many more veterans and so much more depth compared to the Jazz. Lindsey put this season on the Core without help from vets. This allowed the team to grow and try and work hard and make the playoffs. But hedged his bet with not adding much to the team so that if they struggled a bit we could get a lotto pick and know better what we have and what moves we need to make to be a contender in the future. Its hard to gauge a team when you start making a push to win as much as you can with young stars. I really like what Lindsey did and think it was a smart decision. He was hoping to see if we were the next Thunder and some players would become stars. None of our players did, they are a group of borderline all-stars and an unknown in Exum (although his floor is a solid starter in the NBA when healthy like most of our starters). We can work with that and build. This team is in such a great place going forward.
