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Game Thread Jan 12, 2025 06:00PM MT: Brooklyn Nets @ Utah Jazz

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homeytennis said:
The next three games are vital to the tank. We need three Ls in a big way. I'm not sure Hardy is up to the task. He needs to be calling time outs every time the Jazz get some momentum or appear to be starting a run. The Flagg depends on this.
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If they plan to keep Hardy on the team,he can't go blatantly undermining team effort and lose the locker room. It's up to FO to build a team that sucks enough for tanking they want to see.
 
Such a disconnect between what opposing team’s broadcasters think of our team and what the apparent consensus around here seems to be. Being an out of stater, League Pass doesn’t give me the home away option on away games and all I hear is how loaded and dangerous this young team is. Considering draft position, our picks have been assessed as very good and our blue collar vets like Sexton and Collins are also given a higher level of esteem.

I tend to agree with the Jazzfanz subversive element in regards to “tanking” - it’s a sordid dishonest affair - but then again there’s this apparent disconnect. Just so much finger pointing around here equating our poor play (record) with whoever the stooge of the week happens to be - Cody and Isaiah are always popular targets. We’re not very good by design folks! Geez, all you have to do is to compare our injury report with the mean.

I hope our little deceit is successful and we land Cooper or Harper or Bailey or whatever. This tanking stuff is for the birds - yes I agree that we need a flat draft or a sub league European system or some kind of mediation to protect the fan and I suppose even the sports gambler to some extent. Because as we’ve seen, there are games in the season that “the powers that be” go all out for the win and others where a Hardy hard tank intervention is strongly in play. Last night was just a run of the mill. “see what you can do with the mash unit situation. Compiling losses while keeping butts in the seats is no easy juggling act.
 
Release the Kraken said:
Such a disconnect between what opposing team’s broadcasters think of our team and what the apparent consensus around here seems to be. Being an out of stater, League Pass doesn’t give me the home away option on away games and all I hear is how loaded and dangerous this young team is. Considering draft position, our picks have been assessed as very good and our blue collar vets like Sexton and Collins are also given a higher level of esteem.
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CBS had an article a week ago, or so, where they see Jazz as a sleeping giant for 2025-29 who just needs to find their #1 option and start spending their assets. Gotta hit that pick, be it #1, #3, #5 or #8.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
That's very similar to the play that almost ended Kris Dunn's NBA career.
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What's messed up is that while the NBA now has rules about having to let a jump shooter land, those rules don't seem to apply to guys at the rim. I know the Dunn video is old, but Steph isn't even contesting. He just runs under the hoop after the dunk so there is no place for Dunn to come down. Keon Johnson is at least contesting but he both clips Isaiah's lower body and makes it impossible for the play to end any other way but Isaiah hitting the floor while horizontal.

How are these plays not flagrants? Where are the attacking players supposed to land? They both should've been tossed, even if one is a top-10 player of all time.
 
Step-Back Lauri said:
CBS had an article a week ago, or so, where they see Jazz as a sleeping giant for 2025-29 who just needs to find their #1 option and start spending their assets. Gotta hit that pick, be it #1, #3, #5 or #8.
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Didn’t see that, thanks SBL! And I agree wholeheartedly that we’re in really good position to put the wheels back on and actually try in Ernest!
 
Watched the game a little later. Was a little surprised (after having read the game thread comments previously) how competitive I thought the game was. There wasn't the greatest talent out there, obviously, but I've felt there was a lot less terrible play by either team than I've felt watching some other of the Jazz's recent games.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Jazz were never going to lose to a Nets team sitting their 3 best players. They don't even have promising young talent who could go off like Utah does. Just a team of scrubs they probably don't even care much to develop
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And yet it took overtime and game winning heroics from Collier who will probably not be heard from again the next three or more games.
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Thank you Collier rookie mistake
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Spoke too soon
 
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