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Our remaining schedule. Make your predictions.

Not gonna go game by game, but... I think we go 2-3 on the upcoming road trip, beating Minnesota and somebody else. Win three of the four games following the trip (probably beating Wolves, Lakers, Suns, losing to the Warriors). Probably then go 1-2 in the vs SAS vs LAC @ Den stretch. Then win the last two against Dallas and LAL.

41-41, good enough for 8th.
 
Some intangibles in the schedule:

We get the Warriors on the second night of back-to-back where the travel from Oakland to SLC, arriving at SLC hotel after midnight, to play at 9PM. Kerr is going to rest some starters instead of pushing them to play a altitude. Jazz pull off upset. Also pretty good hope that Spurs are resting players in prep for playoffs and before their upcoming 2/3 games vs Golden State (followed by OKC).

Also depends on whether Spurs and Warriors are battling for home court of not, but I guess Pop will be more concerned about playoffs. Counter to this, the Spurs have more depth than in their previous championship years, so may be able to play his old guys 30 mpg in early rounds and still close series in 4-5 games.

Final point: we need to clinch before last game of season because we can't rely on Mavs loss versus Spurs in Dallas on last game of season if game means playoffs for Mavs and meaningless to Spurs. Certainly would be a scrub game for Spurs.
 
Tonight's game is huge! The jazz can only lose 5 games to get 42 wins.

I have the 5 losses betting bulls, thunder, warriors, spurs, clippers.

Beating the bulls would greatly increase the chance for 42 wins.

I looked at the bulls roster and they are very talented and quite deep even without gasol. I'm shocked that their record isn't better. This will be a really tough game tonight.

Hayward better play and it would be nice to have Burks start his comeback (though I know that ain't happening)
 
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Don't look now, but Memphis has lost 4 out of the last 5. They have a pretty brutal final stretch of games. They could still fall quickly with conley out.
 
If I had to go out on a limb, I think the Jazz will win some and probably lose some.
 
I think the only sure loss is Clippers. Tonights Warriors game seems like a game Jazz can pull a win on with how they are going, and how Warriors have been struggling more and more the past few games.

The Spurs game heavily depends on who Popovich rests tbh. Since it's a road game and right before their Warriors game, I would assume they will rest at least their Big 3. So I'm thinking Jazz will beat out the sweep there.
 
franklin said:
The Jazz have had 1 good stretch this season, and that was a 6 game home stand against bad or bottom playoff teams. I'm going with 13-12 as a best case scenario, 11-14 the worst.
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9-8 since this call. We are right on track (though I'm pulling for 17-9).
 
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