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Jazz Playoff Chances

NAOS said:
I don't think so. I think every team has the ability to amnesty one player under contract at the time of the CBA. Am I wrong?
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You are correct.

• 2005 CBA: One player can be waived prior to the start of the 2005-06 season. The salary of the waived player will not count toward the luxury tax.

• 2011 CBA: One player can be waived prior to the start of any season (only one player can be amnestied during the agreement, and contracts signed under the new CBA are not eligible). The salary of the waived player will not count toward the salary cap or luxury tax. Teams with cap room can submit competing offers to acquire an amnestied player (at a reduced rate) before he hits free agency and can sign with any team.

• Who benefits? As with the amnesty provision in the 2005 agreement, this provision allows teams to kick one bad contract to the curb. The benefits to amnesty are greater now than they were in 2005 -- 100 percent of the player's salary is removed for both cap and tax purposes. The other big change is that teams are allowed to pocket their amnesty card to use later -- so teams that managed their cap well to this point benefit because they don't have to use it or lose it.
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https://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/CBA-111128/how-new-nba-deal-compares-last-one
 
Back to the topic on hand. Minnesota is getting killed tonight by the Kings. That would be a HUGE blow to their playoff hopes to get beat by a bottom feeder.
 
I'm going to wait to see how we make it through the rest of March before I start predicting things about the playoffs. If we can win 5 of the next 9, then I think we have a reasonable chance. BTW, that's gonna be hard as ****.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Back to the topic on hand. Minnesota is getting killed tonight by the Kings. That would be a HUGE blow to their playoff hopes to get beat by a bottom feeder.
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They seemed to have taken the loss of Rubio pretty hard. If Minny can get below GSW, they'll be doing us a double favor.

We keep GSW pick & make the playoffs. Sweet!
 
Hotttnickkk said:
They seemed to have taken the loss of Rubio pretty hard. If Minny can get below GSW, they'll be doing us a double favor.

We keep GSW pick & make the playoffs. Sweet!
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now the rubio is out for rest of the year,rubio honey-moon season is over.From next year,u will see classical rubio"i play good for one year,than suck rest of it" act..take my word,he allways been this way,,feel sorry for Minny
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Ok, I was thinking about the Jazz playoff chances as of late, and how realistic they actually are. Currently their are 4 teams I would highlight as having chances at the 7 & 8 seed.

Those teams are:
Utah (22-22)
Phoenix (22-22)
Denver (25-20)
Houston (24-21)

Utah's remaining schedule has 22 games left, with 10 on the road and 12 at home. 12 of those games are against teams with a record of .500 or better. Additionally 6 of those games are the tail-end of a back-to-back (including the upcoming games against the Lakers).

Phoenix's remaining schedule has 22 games left, with 13 on the road and 9 at home. 15 of those games are against teams with a record of .500 or better. Additionally 6 of those games are the tail-end of a back-to-back.

Denver's remaining schedule has 21 games left, with 13 on the road and 8 at home. Only 9 of those games are against teams with a record of .500 or better. Additionally 4 of those games are the tail-end of a back-to-back.

Houston's remaining schedule has 21 games left, with 11 at home and 10 on the road. Only 11 of those games are against teams with a record of .500 or better. Additionally 7 of those games are the tail-end of a back-to-back.

Utah has 2 games left against Phoenix, both at home. 1 game against the Rockets, at Houston. 1 game against Denver, at home.
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Nice summary of the situation.

The sad thing is, the possibility of us being in the playoff race with a better record while developing our youngsters as well, if we had been playing with the youngs from the begining.

Still I am all for boosting for the playoffs to the end, but now our chances are not that great.
 
Rockets loss tonight to Phoenix, bringing the Suns and Jazz within a half a game of the 8th seed.
 
I think that the Jazz make the playoffs this year. If we win Tuesday against OKC, we probably move into the #8 spot because the Rockets (who are slumping right now) host the Lakers while the Suns play in Miami (both games on Tuesday). Here is a serious question: will the Jazz lose another game at home? If we beat OKC on Tuesday, I think we just might win out at ESA. The Jazz are becoming nearly unbeatable at the house that Larry built again. Coming off this absolutely gigantic win in LA coupled with the opponent being the best-in-the-conference OKC Thunder, the crowd should be absolutely crazy!
 
Matthew Thomas Castleton said:
I think that the Jazz make the playoffs this year. If we win Tuesday against OKC, we probably move into the #8 spot because the Rockets (who are slumping right now) host the Lakers while the Suns play in Miami (both games on Tuesday). Here is a serious question: will the Jazz lose another game at home? If we beat OKC on Tuesday, I think we just might win out at ESA. The Jazz are becoming nearly unbeatable at the house that Larry built again. Coming off this absolutely gigantic win in LA coupled with the opponent being the best in the conference OKC Thunder, the crowd should be absolutely crazy!
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We still have vs. Denver, Dallas, Orlando, and San Antonio at home. I'm sure we will lose at least one of those.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
We still have vs. Denver, Dallas, Orlando, and San Antonio at home. I'm sure we will lose at least one of those.
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Could easily see us losing all of them, especially with Al and Bell returning.


Im cautiously sipping the kool-aid, but we have a long way to go before we make the playoffs. Plus, the Suns are playing so damn well lately.
 
dalamon said:
Could easily see us losing all of them, especially with Al and Bell returning.


Im cautiously sipping the kool-aid, but we have a long way to go before we make the playoffs. Plus, the Suns are playing so damn well lately.
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Oh ye of little faith. If the Jazz can beat the freaking Miami Heat at home (after having an 18-point lead before the Heat went on a run to make it a game), we can beat all of those other teams too.
 
Matthew Thomas Castleton said:
Oh ye of little faith. If the Jazz can beat the freaking Miami Heat at home (after having an 18-point lead before the Heat went on a run to make it a game), we can beat all of those other teams too.
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Sure they CAN win any or all of them, but is it that likely that they beat Den, Dal, Orl and SA? You could also put it this way: "If the Jazz can lose to the freaking Toronto Raptors at home, we can lose to all of those other teams too."
 
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