I'm hoping Cody has a bounce back game. It seemed like he started the year ok, had a bad game, and then just spiraled downward from there to land him in the Gleague. It would be great to see him not let a bad game ruin his confidence.
Game Thread Jan 17, 2025 06:00PM MT: Utah Jazz @ New Orleans Pelicans
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It is crazy that small market team fans want to make it so big market teams have better chances to win the lottery.
I think it's crazy that anyone can possibly enjoy watching their team purposely lose, and when 1/3 of the teams in a league are doing it, it makes for piss poor entertainment.
Cody will get to guard Trey Murphy and see, a) what he could be like, and b) just how far he needs to go.
Ain't no one at the game
Jazz are over-tanking this one a little.
You would have teams at the margins of making the playoffs tanking (we have already seen this) because they have no chance at the title that year, which is obviously way better.
1/5 but okay.
I mean, if guys are going to throw up bricks and turn the ball over, they should let Cody join in. As it is, they don't let him touch the ball.
Tank Masterclass
Harkless our best defender
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The tank is in full swing.
Jazz guys won't share the ball with Cody or Harkless. It's all Sexton and Brice forcing shots.
Hawkins jumped 3 feet forward on that 3PA to draw a shooting foul.
Thank you.
There are those that are so focused on nitpicking things they don’t like about something that they are blinded to how vastly worse other outcomes can be.
We have never had more parity at the top of the league than right now. We have had a different NBA champion every single year since 2019. In those six years, we’ve had ten teams play in the finals (only the Celtics and Heat appearing more than once in those six years). We haven’t had a major free agent defection since 2019 (maybe I am forgetting something here). There are no “super teams” (three max players that force their way to a single team and a bunch of scrubs and ring-chasers) burning up the league.
We have basically gotten rid of low-scoring, stagnant, boring offenses that consist of one or two guys iso-ing and bricking a bunch of mid-range garbage. We used to hear belly-aching about low-scoring games that resembled football and had restrictive illegal defense rules that protected players that lacked talent. Now, teams can employ any team defense they please which makes games much more dynamic. Allowing these complex defenses forces teams to shoot better, run faster, jump higher, and pass better on average. There has never been more movement and action in the game than now. But now the criticism is that the games are too high-scoring or that we should be mad that we traded the bad mid-range shots for bad three-pointers.
Basketball as a game has never been better. The players might not be as interesting as they used to be (or maybe we’re all just trapped in nostalgia), and the game isn’t as physical as it used to be. Those changes and actual parity emerging makes the playoffs less dramatic as it isn’t Lakers-Celtics every other year, or the supposed best ever drubbing everyone for most of a decade. It’s just not as dramatic. But are we watching for drama, or because we like basketball?
Anyway, if the odds were flattened, most small market teams would be ****ed. I don’t get how we can’t all see that.
By the way, if you’ve been wondering the mystery as to why players get hurt more now, this is the biggest puzzle piece to that answer. Players are flying sideline to sideline and rim to the top of the break to competently defend all of the spacing and movement offenses. Most of us would be stunned to see how much more active the game is now than in the 90’s and earlier. Does anyone think garbage basketball didn’t exist then? Or that tanking didn’t exist then? There has always been really bad teams in the greater competitive context and there always will be.
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I just don't understand why all of the crap teams are STILL in the East. It has always been 10 times harder to build in the West, because they have been the stronger conference for at least 4 decades now.