2020 Jazz Season is the Darkest Timeline

[Handlogten's Heros]

Listening to Windhorst on his pod and to his credit he said "has anyone had a worse two months or so than the Jazz". I appreciate his sympathy... lets just look at this season...

- We trade for Mike Conley and he plays like garbage... like really bad... not just an age thing but like can't make shots at all. burning real assets to go for it... in a move that is win now and something overdue (right @infection )

- Been some Rudy DM tensions on the court but nothing to worry about.

- Then the Rona hits our two best players starting a weird feud.

- Bojan has to have surgery to repair his wrist... gone for the season.

- There is a real chance that Joe won't play unless it is really safe as he his son has some immune deficiencies and his wife is pregnant. this is not set in stone obvi but there is a chance.

- Legend Jerry Sloan passes... he was sick... ultimately it is a good thing but not something I would call good news.

- these things have all occurred while we get to watch the "documentary" that is capped off showing our most painful losses to the best team we likely ever see.

- All of this is capped by this... they may move to a 16 team format for the playoffs and start where the standings are today... Instead of OKC ( a tough but beatable team) … we'd get Houston... the team we have really struggled with... the team that likely needs no time to gel, because they go so iso heavy... the team that I can't stand watching.

This 2020 season is on the darkest timeline... it seemed very much the opposite of that last summer. We are due for some good news... but imma just go ahead and keep saying the ******** gonna keep coming.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Also 100,000 Americans have died in less than three months from the worst infectious disease in 100 years and a senile creep is our best hope at beating the evil creep.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Also 100,000 Americans have died in less than three months from the worst infectious disease in 100 years and a senile creep is our best hope at beating the evil creep.

This happened as well... but this is purely a Jazz related pity party... 2020 has been terrible as a whole, but I feel it has really targeted the Jazz.

this is a critical offseason as well... our stars could sign deals that keep us together or that **** could fall apart... or some other scenarios that I don't want to bring up... do not want to give the basketball gods any damn ideas.

 

[Jazzmix]

Listening to Windhorst on his pod and to his credit he said "has anyone had a worse two months or so than the Jazz". I appreciate his sympathy... lets just look at this season...

- We trade for Mike Conley and he plays like garbage... like really bad... not just an age thing but like can't make shots at all. burning real assets to go for it... in a move that is win now and something overdue (right @infection )

- Been some Rudy DM tensions on the court but nothing to worry about.

- Then the Rona hits our two best players starting a weird feud.

- Bojan has to have surgery to repair his wrist... gone for the season.

- There is a real chance that Joe won't play unless it is really safe as he his son has some immune deficiencies and his wife is pregnant. this is not set in stone obvi but there is a chance.

- Legend Jerry Sloan passes... he was sick... ultimately it is a good thing but not something I would call good news.

- these things have all occurred while we get to watch the "documentary" that is capped off showing our most painful losses to the best team we likely ever see.

- All of this is capped by this... they may move to a 16 team format for the playoffs and start where the standings are today... Instead of OKC ( a tough but beatable team) … we'd get Houston... the team we have really struggled with... the team that likely needs no time to gel, because they go so iso heavy... the team that I can't stand watching.

This 2020 season is on the darkest timeline... it seemed very much the opposite of that last summer. We are due for some good news... but imma just go ahead and keep saying the ******** gonna keep coming.

Houston is going to be 5th seed in that scenario? Damn.. And the homecourt won't even mean **** as they will play without public and in another city..

 

[Troat Guru]

we'd get Houston... the team we have really struggled with... the team that likely needs no time to gel, because they go so iso heavy... the team that I can't stand watching.

So I'm not alone,that makes two of us...

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Houston is going to be 5th seed in that scenario? Damn.. And the homecourt won't even mean **** as they will play without public and in another city..

We would be the 7th seed and they would be the 10th seed... so we'd match up in a 16 team playoff bracket... rather than doing the conferences. Great news is we'd still get LA in the second round (don't think we need to worry about it though).

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

So I'm not alone,that makes two of us...

"Look they win a lot, but its really hard to watch... all that iso and flopping then complaining to the refs"

- James Harden's Mom

 

[Miggs]

Maybe Harden has AIDS by now. And Westbrook could easily shoot them out of the series. And no Capela.

 

[Jazzmix]

Maybe Harden has AIDS by now. And Westbrook could easily shoot them out of the series. And no Capela.

We would miss Bogey. And Westbrook would go straight to the rim every time he sees Bradley on the floor. I don't see it.. If Harden has AIDS we would end up not only ****ed but also infected.

 

[idiot]

We would miss Bogey. And Westbrook would go straight to the rim every time he sees Bradley on the floor. I don't see it.. If Harden has AIDS we would end up not only ****ed but also infected.

You're forgetting we have Juwan Morgan? +13 in the last two games against Houston (since they went all in with small-ball), the final one of which was the last time Tony Bradley was a healthy scratch if I'm remembering correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong).

(OK, I don't really have a lot of faith in this, but we do have some options at least.)

 

[idiot]

Speaking of Tony Bradley, and on the plus side of this season, we have discovered that we may have the best offensive rebounder in NBA history who still managed a .675 TS% (4th in the league this year if he had had enough attempts) at the same usage rate as Gobert.

 

[Troat Guru]

As far I'm concerned I was pleasantly surprised by the rise of Tony Bradley...IMO he is a positive note in the darkness around us.

Yeah this isn't our year at all but I think we have the right bases for doing somethink interesting and great next year (I'm too much optimistic???...Perhaps, but i don't belive there will be something rotten in the locker room next year, I'm sure they'll solve the biggest problems)

 

[Miggs]

As far I'm concerned I was pleasantly surprised by the raise of Tony Bradley...IMO he is a positive note in the darkness around us.

Yeah this isn't our year at all but I think we have the right bases for doing somethink interesting and great next year (I'm too much optimistic???...Perhaps, but i don't belive there will be something rotten in the locker room next year, I'm sure they'll solve the biggest problems)

The Millers gave him a ****ing raise?

 

[Troat Guru]

The Millers gave him a ****ing raise?

Sorry I've made a mistake, I wanted to write the rise of Tony not the raise

 

[Jazzmix]

You're forgetting we have Juwan Morgan? +13 in the last two games against Houston (since they went all in with small-ball), the final one of which was the last time Tony Bradley was a healthy scratch if I'm remembering correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong).

(OK, I don't really have a lot of faith in this, but we do have some options at least.)

I don't forget him. I actually like him and Tony too, both have potential but I think it's too early for them to contribute in the playoffs. But maybe with the weird situation this year, no fans etc the pressure in the playoffs won't feel the same?

 

[infection]

When you get punched in the face, it hurts and is jostling, but then you reach a point of a kind of fuzzy numbing. That’s where I’m at. Throughout the year, there’s always things to keep my interest, whether it’s the season, the possibilities in the draft, my daydreaming about possibilities in the off-season, etc. Basketball has not occupied my mind at all. Part of this is because I have some other major fish to fry, part of it is that society has tipped over and I’m anxious about that stabilizing, and the other part is getting punched in the face (by both societal issues and Jazz basketball). The whole Gobert/Donovan thing and then the numbing came. Whatever. Bojan surgery? I don’t even know what the hell this season is, anyway. Sure, why not? We’re going to be watching the regular season equivalent of the Orlando summer league? Okay... am I going to be bummed if we peter out? I doubt it. Will I be excited if see the Jazz win it all as if we were watching a tennis match? I don’t even know how to process that.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

When you get punched in the face, it hurts and is jostling, but then you reach a point of a kind of fuzzy numbing. That’s where I’m at. Throughout the year, there’s always things to keep my interest, whether it’s the season, the possibilities in the draft, my daydreaming about possibilities in the off-season, etc. Basketball has not occupied my mind at all. Part of this is because I have some other major fish to fry, part of it is that society has tipped over and I’m anxious about that stabilizing, and the other part is getting punched in the face (by both societal issues and Jazz basketball). The whole Gobert/Donovan thing and then the numbing came. Whatever. Bojan surgery? I don’t even know what the hell this season is, anyway. Sure, why not? We’re going to be watching the regular season equivalent of the Orlando summer league? Okay... am I going to be bummed if we peter out? I doubt it. Will I be excited if see the Jazz win it all as if we were watching a tennis match? I don’t even know how to process that.

Numb is correct.

The finality of this timeline is the Rudy and DM never getting back on the same page and it leading to Rudy getting traded for the modern day equivalent of the Dwill to Brooklyn deal... then we become a .500 team... but just wait until (insert prospect name we get in Rudy deal... James Wiseman, Wendell Carter, etc.) get really good then we gonna be great. And thus continues our cycle of having one star rising while the other star is just about to make an exit. I likely won't be numb, but that thought seemed all kinds of stoopid a few months ago. Now based on our trajectory I think it is inevitable.

Evil Abed has taken a bone saw to the Jazz - Community reference

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Do you guys remember when we used to argue about whether Tony Bradley should be the backup 5 or if we should try and get Baynes or promote Juwan Morgan? Those were the good old days... who knew?

 

[SCS]

You forgot to mention that the portion of the season that we did play was one weird a** rollercoaster ride too. At the start of the season we played good D but the offense was atrocious. Then our offense exploded and was tops in the NBA and our defense disappeared.

All of this means 2021 will be amazing for us right? I mean it can't be all bad forever...

 

[SCS]

I imagine if things continue to be s**** for us Jerry Sloan is gonna get ejected from heaven for a game or two lol