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Jazz now top 5 in ESPN's power rankings

str8line

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EDIT: It's NBA.com's power rankings.


So based on last night's barely 4-page game thread most of our members got off the train at the last stop. So let's grab several bottles from the bar car, stretch our legs, and cheers the **** out of our future.



"The Jazz rank seventh offensively, and some of their best players haven’t been particularly sharp. Donovan Mitchell’s effective field goal percentage (45.3%) and free throw rate (18.1 attempts per 100 shots from the field) are both career-low marks. Joe Ingles had been pretty quiet (coming off the bench again) until totaling 24 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists over the last two games. And Bojan Bogdanovic had shoot poorly until breaking outwith 28 points on 10-for-13 (6-for-7 from 3-point range) in San Antonio on Sunday.

Rudy Gobert has been characteristically efficient and Mike Conley has been the real offensive star, averaging a team-high 20.3 points on an effective field goal percentage of 61%. He did the Clippers dirty early and often on Friday and then drained a huge 3 (off a how-did-he-see-him feed from Mitchell) after the Jazz almost blew a 20-point lead. Given the way last season went, it may be for the best that Conley is the guy finding his groove early. And if everybody else eventually finds theirs, the Jazz are going to be tough to beat."
 
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Link?

I thought we were 8th....up from 8th, and 12th before that.

Im apparently seeing this wrong.
 
Link?

I thought we were 8th....up from 8th, and 12th before that.

Im apparently seeing this wrong.

Watching the Mavs-Rockets game and it flashed across the bottom of the screen. Said new additions to the ESPN top 5 included the Jazz. I can't find a link either.
 
I watched the 2nd half of Knicks/Hawks last night. If the refs gave Don half of the bogus calls Trae gets, we would be on top of this list. Don would go to the line 10 times a game with a similar whistle standard.

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I think the fact that we are 4 - 2 with our star player having a pisspoor start speaks volumes. Imagine when Donovan gets rolling.
Hopefully his last game of 22/9/4 on decent shooting is the launching point for this. With as high as his usage typically is, that we are 4-2 with him playing poorly really is something.
 
Hopefully his last game of 22/9/4 on decent shooting is the launching point for this. With as high as his usage typically is, that we are 4-2 with him playing poorly really is something.
Outside of a bad stint in the second quarter (iirc) he was pretty good... had a couple nuclear turnovers in a couple minute stretch. Hoping tonight he has a big breakout game.
 
I watched the 2nd half of Knicks/Hawks last night. If the refs gave Don half of the bogus calls Trae gets, we would be on top of this list. Don would go to the line 10 times a game with a similar whistle standard.

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Drawing contact is a pretty huge skill in the NBA, and is not so easy to analyze as just taking a small eye test sample size.

Is there reason to think that refs are greatly favoring third year Trae Young in Atlanta more than they would favor 4th year Mitchell in Utah who has done way more in the league? Or is it possible Trae is much better than Don at the subtleties of drawing contact?
 
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