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USA Today calling Jazz the new elite in the West:

The Jazz have been playing well, and beating some bad teams. The Mavs were gutty. The upcoming schedule should give a better indication as to whether or not this team starting Dante Exum and Boris Diaw should be considered elite.
 
LazyD said:
The Jazz have been playing well, and beating some bad teams. The Mavs were gutty. The upcoming schedule should give a better indication as to whether or not this team starting Dante Exum and Boris Diaw should be considered elite.
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the obvious answer to that question is of course they're not and besides that will only be for another few games.

Moot point
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
Cappy has already gone on record as saying Jazz are on the doorstep of becoming elite. Utah hasn't had an elite team since S&M. IMO, the real measure of an elite team is the ability to win games on the road. By the end of the season, even with the injuries, I expect this to be the best road team since John and Karl.
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You really put yourself out there with going on record. Congrats, you want an award? And I'd say reaching the Western Conference Finals is pretty elite, but I guess it's all about road wins.
 
Looks like the Jazz are for REAL this year, huh? Beat the Cav's with all the big time players in the Cleveland lineup! May check them out next time on National TV, or against the locals down here, Hawks and Hornets.
 
LazyD said:
The Jazz have been playing well, and beating some bad teams. The Mavs were gutty. The upcoming schedule should give a better indication as to whether or not this team starting Dante Exum and Boris Diaw should be considered elite.
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Nobody here believes we're elite when not at full strength.
 
str8line said:
And I'd say reaching the Western Conference Finals is pretty elite, but I guess it's all about road wins.
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We beat an 8th seed to get there, and never were a good road team. So yeah, since we can't count on facing an 8th seed in the playoffs to get to the WCF every year, the best measure of when good teams turn elite, is when they start winning most of their road games.

That WCF team that you consider "elite" won a whopping 3 more road games than Utah did the year they traded Kanter. This team, when fully healthy, is better than the Deron/Boozer led teams, and I'm betting this year will be the first time since S&M that Utah has a road record over .500.
 
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stitches said:
We've been in a sweet soft spot of the schedule with quite a bit of easy games, but we've also beaten some good teams in between. The next stretch will be a real litmus test.
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That's what I thought until I looked at the next month of the schedule. Every game is very winnable.

Detroit
Orlando
@Phoenix
@Dallas
Indiana
OKC
@Denver
LAL
Memphis
Milwaukee
Charlotte
@Atlanta
@New Orleans
@Dallas
Boston
LAC
Portland

11 of the next 17 at home. Of the six road games, only at Atlanta is against a team who will make the playoffs. I want 13-4 during that span. What I really want is an understanding and appreciation for the moment, the importance of homecourt and seeding, and for what they could have right now, and therefore a 15-2 record and major hot streak over that time to announce we've ****ing arrived and mean business.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
That's what I thought until I looked at the next month of the schedule. Every game is very winnable.

Detroit
Orlando
@Phoenix
@Dallas
Indiana
OKC
@Denver
LAL
Memphis
Milwaukee
Charlotte
@Atlanta
@New Orleans
@Dallas
Boston
LAC
Portland

11 of the next 17 at home. Of the six road games, only at Atlanta is against a team who will make the playoffs. I want 13-4 during that span. What I really want is an understanding and appreciation for the moment, the importance of homecourt and seeding, and for what they could have right now, and therefore a 15-2 record and major hot streak over that time to announce we've ****ing arrived and mean business.
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Wow there is maybe 2 games on that schedule that the Jazz shouldn't be favored in. I know they won't win them all but should easily be staring at 13 wins during that stretch and pushing their record to almost 15 Wins more than loses.
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He did make his post on 12-16 though and we have had a rough stretch during that span.
 
Lets get a monster streak now before we let the national hype train run wild.

I feel like after Haywards break out game, and Favors recovery we are ready to go on a streak.

Cant wait for the rush of love to come to us...
 
Wes Mantooth said:
That's what I thought until I looked at the next month of the schedule. Every game is very winnable.

Detroit
Orlando
@Phoenix
@Dallas
Indiana
OKC
@Denver
LAL
Memphis
Milwaukee
Charlotte
@Atlanta
@New Orleans
@Dallas
Boston
LAC
Portland

11 of the next 17 at home. Of the six road games, only at Atlanta is against a team who will make the playoffs. I want 13-4 during that span. What I really want is an understanding and appreciation for the moment, the importance of homecourt and seeding, and for what they could have right now, and therefore a 15-2 record and major hot streak over that time to announce we've ****ing arrived and mean business.
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We beat one good team an this clown wants us to go 15-2. Who knows, maybe Jazz will never miss a three ball again.
 
Boris said:
We beat one good team an this clown wants us to go 15-2. Who knows, maybe Jazz will never miss a three ball again.
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Yeah, Houston, OKC, Memphis, Spurs and Hawks all sucks. Injuries never happened.

Healthy, home games and mostly lesser teams.

You work at CNN?
 
Bawse Dawg said:
We need to talk about the difference between a good game by a great player, and a breakout game.
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You have to understand how his brain stores information regarding Hayward.

Hayward does something good: forget about it in a few days.

Hayward does something bad: remember it for eternity and assume it happens all the time.


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Boris said:
We beat one good team an this clown wants us to go 15-2. Who knows, maybe Jazz will never miss a three ball again.
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we're favored by 538 in all but two, homie. I'm personally expecting 12 or more wins, and hoping for 14 or 15.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
We beat an 8th seed to get there, and never were a good road team. So yeah, since we can't count on facing an 8th seed in the playoffs to get to the WCF every year, the best measure of when good teams turn elite, is when they start winning most of their road games.

That WCF team that you consider "elite" won a whopping 3 more road games than Utah did the year they traded Kanter. This team, when fully healthy, is better than the Deron/Boozer led teams, and I'm betting this year will be the first time since S&M that Utah has a road record over .500.
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And the year after their WCF appearance they won more home games than our second finals team. We can cherry pick stats too all day brotha.
 
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