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This team vs last ... who is better ?

Jazz Spazz said:
People wondered if we would even score 90 this year after losing Hill and Hayward and adding defensive specialists. So far we are only 1ppg less than last year, with our "weak offense".

It's to early to say really, but I think this years team is better, because of the improved defense on the perimeter and in the paint. The offense may not drop as much as people thought it would. I do still have small concerns about who will take over and score in crunch time and in the playoffs. I say "and in the playoffs" because they will be back.
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This is basically how I feel as well. We'll be fine scoring by committee for the most part in the regular season, but if we want to make any noise in the playoffs we will need more scoring/playmaking from the wing. I don't know if Hood Burks or even Mitchell has it in them this year, but if they do look out!

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Zombie said:
This is basically how I feel as well. We'll be fine scoring by committee for the most part in the regular season, but if we want to make any noise in the playoffs we will need more scoring/playmaking from the wing. I don't know if Hood Burks or even Mitchell has it in them this year, but if they do look out!

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what we need is to stop turning the ball over.
 
JohnnyClutch said:
What would you rather have? This year's team, or this year's team with Betraywood and that HUGE, crushing contract we would have had to pay him?

I'll take this year's team.
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We had a faith in him, but We were very lucky the things happened.
Now we are "A" defensive team without bad contract.

I'm on board.
 
yamers said:
what we need is to stop turning the ball over.
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I really think this is going to work itself for the most part. I'm sure we'll have more TOs than last year just because Rubio is more of a gambler than Hill was, but I expect to see improvement from the first few games.

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I am very optimistic about the Jazz and think they are being under estimated. Here is how I see the Jazz in comparison to last year.

Gobert will be significantly better than last year and will pick up much of Hayward's slack as the new primary emphasis on offense
Favors will be significantly better than last year due to improved health and will also pick up much of Hayward's slack
Rubio will be significantly better than Hill due to reliability and durability. He will play basically even as the starting point but will 25 to 30 more games than Hill thus also replacing most of Mack minutes.
Ingles will be about the same as last year if not slightly improved due to Rubio's facilitation.
Johnson will be about the same as last year but overall slightly better because we have figured out his role and have small forwards to cover so he does not have to play out of position.
Hood will be slightly better due to Rubil being a better facilitator. Hopefully he is more healthy but with Thabo was can better absorb injury here.
Sefolosha will be as good as Hayward defensively and will pick up about half his points with way less utilization
Burks will be significantly better than last year and will pick up much of Hayward's slack. People are going to be surprised
Mitchell will match or be better than Exum in his role last year.
Udoh is WAAAAAY better than either Diaw or Withey
Neto will be about the same and be adequate as a limited minutes backup

Bradley Jerebko, Oneal and are irrelevant this year but better than Lyles, Withey and Bolomboy

All that being said we could still have a worse record this year because we may not have improved as much as the rest of the west. I am predicting 48 wins. Our schedule is brutal not playing 4 games against 4 of the worst teams. That is 4 likely wins that we will have to fight hard to get 2 or 3.
 
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