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Where Do the Jazz Finish?

What place do the Jazz finish in the Western Conference

  • Out of the playoffs

    Votes: 15 24.6%

  • 8th place

    Votes: 13 21.3%

  • 7th place

    Votes: 12 19.7%

  • 6th place

    Votes: 16 26.2%

  • Better than 6th seed

    Votes: 5 8.2%
  • Total voters
    61
JAZZGASM said:
NBA teams are going towards teams that switch everything. When you run pnr to create mismatches, you lose that advantage to a good switching team. When we largely have 3 players stationary on offense, 3 defenders get a break on D. The old Jazz teams were not easy to defend, defenders knew our sets. They were simple and effective. When I look at old jazz rosters, it amazes me how well they did.
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If you look at the NBA now you will see every team has a person planted in the corner standing. If you tried the old school offense of only 1 out the defense will sag in and jazz will never score. It's the evolution of the game. We don't have 3 stationary players. You have 1 in the corner, a ball handler, 2 screeners and a cutter/spot up shooter depending on read. The old simple and effective isn't so effective in today's NBA.

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Bawse Dawg said:
Did I say that? I said he may hit the wall because most rookies do. But if you must know the 1-9 from 3 and 8 turnovers definitely didn’t provide evidence that he won’t hit the rookie wall.
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Right. 1 game means he is about to. Ok. Why don't we just let the rookie live through a bad game against one of the top 2 teams in the nba with out over analyzing. He had a bad game. That's it so far.

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cmw said:
Right. 1 game means he is about to. Ok. Why don't we just let the rookie live through a bad game against one of the top 2 teams in the nba with out over analyzing. He had a bad game. That's it so far.

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And I haven’t said anything other than that. You won’t get me talking **** on Mitchell, I love him.
 
cmw said:
If you look at the NBA now you will see every team has a person planted in the corner standing. If you tried the old school offense of only 1 out the defense will sag in and jazz will never score. It's the evolution of the game. We don't have 3 stationary players. You have 1 in the corner, a ball handler, 2 screeners and a cutter/spot up shooter depending on read. The old simple and effective isn't so effective in today's NBA.

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Flex may not be effective, but I think UCLA would work great.

We ran a lot of UCLA in college and ran our big man a bit farther out as he could shoot. Outside of the cuts which terminated on wings, we effectively ran 4 out and 1 in, but the cuts are what keeps a defender on his toes.

Hell, even horns sets we run have very few wrinkles. A well run horns offense has so many options. We typically run 3 options out of horns when we run it.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
And I haven’t said anything other than that. You won’t get me talking **** on Mitchell, I love him.
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I'm not saying your talking s%^t on him at all. I'm just saying if he has a bad game lets just call it that. A rookie who had a bad game. No need to look in to it any more than that. Every player every year has some bad games no matter how long they have been in the league and that's all it is. No different. He is the last player on the jazz I am gonna worry about bouncing back, or not figuring it out.

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Bulletproof said:
6th
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This is my feeling too. I feel like we are simply a better team than Portland, Denver an NO when healthy. I expect us to find a way to 6th. I'm not even worried about whether these other teams win or lose on a nightly basis because I believe we will win more. We just have to have our main players healthy. That's the key.
 
elan_prodigy said:
Sooner we get Dante back the better, he can inject some energy and take some of the load off DM.
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Dante coming back soon may be the best thing for him long term but I will be surprised if it helps us short term. If anything, the time it will take for him to get in game shape and in sync with the team may well slow us down right now. I want to make the playoffs so not sure I am that excited about the timing.
 
gomretat said:
Dante coming back soon may be the best thing for him long term but I will be surprised if it helps us short term. If anything, the time it will take for him to get in game shape and in sync with the team may well slow us down right now. I want to make the playoffs so not sure I am that excited about the timing.
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He should have stayed relatively fit because there was nothing wrong with his legs.

He also knows Quins playbook as well as or better than O'Neal, Crowder, Jerebko and possibly Rubio and DM so I dont expect much of an issue reintroducing him.
 
elan_prodigy said:
He should have stayed relatively fit because there was nothing wrong with his legs.

He also knows Quins playbook as well as or better than O'Neal, Crowder, Jerebko and possibly Rubio and DM so I dont expect much of an issue reintroducing him.
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The only way to get game ready is to play. I hope he is good to go but historically he has not shown an ability to contribute and mesh well in games that matter. If he can contribute right away that is great but I still think this is more for him than for the team. Hope I am wrong.
 
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