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King Cy said:
This the kind of loss that prevents sleep. It will haunt your dreams.
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I slept like a baby. I tend to have trouble falling asleep when the Jazz are screwed over by the refs. But last night the Clippers reserves beat us fair and square on our home floor - a game we should have won with ease.

The way Houston has been playing, I see us grabbing the 8th seed which isn't entirely bad because I'd prefer it to the 7th seed.

I know the 6th seed is somehow possible but call me crazy - I'd rather play Golden State than OKC.
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
I'm not suggesting the game wasn't critical. I'm suggesting out of these games it's understandable the Jazz overlooked this one
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I don't think the Jazz overlooked this one. Quite the opposite - I think they played tense as hell and caved in a bit to the pressure of the big game and the fact that they were "supposed" to beat the Clippers bench.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
This is terrible logic. Every game, with so few left and every team so close to being in or out of the playoffs, is must win. Last night, at home, was a must win game against a bunch of ****heads. And we ****ing choked. Again.
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No. Actually this is terrible logic. All games count the same. This game didn't mean any more than losing to the Pistons in game 1 did.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
This is terrible logic. Every game, with so few left and every team so close to being in or out of the playoffs, is must win. Last night, at home, was a must win game against a bunch of ****heads. And we ****ing choked. Again.
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Actually by definition last night was not must win. We only needed 3 out of the 4 remaining games. Now we need all 3 (if Houston wins out).
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
I'm not suggesting the game wasn't critical. I'm suggesting out of these games it's understandable the Jazz overlooked this one
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Not really. I hate to be the one to go full old-man mode here, but expecting that people paid millions of dollars a year to give a **** and deliver is not unreasonable. We're at a point in the season where it doesn't matter if they're playing the Washington Generals, put your god damn ****ing foot on the gas pedal. Or on their throats. Whatever metaphor you want to use. Absolutely no excuse to mail it in.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Not really. I hate to be the one to go full old-man mode here, but expecting that people paid millions of dollars a year to give a **** and deliver is not unreasonable. We're at a point in the season where it doesn't matter if they're playing the Washington Generals, put your god damn ****ing foot on the gas pedal. Or on their throats. Whatever metaphor you want to use. Absolutely no excuse to mail it in.
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Right, ideally this is how it should be. The other theory people are floating is that guys were overly nervous.

Regardless, it was one of the worst games of the last few years. Let's hope the team regroups and doesn't take anything for granted, and plays with confidence.
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
The other theory people are floating is that guys were overly nervous.
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I subscribe to this theory. Nervous and choking are basically the same thing IMO. We always seem to do something really stupid to shoot ourselves in the foot everytime we have the chance to put someone away (bad pass, dribbing out of bounds, not boxing out for a critical rebound, shooting FT worse than Andre Drummond, etc.)
 
Bring on the eight seed. Imma be in east bay that week the jazz will start the playoffs. I will walk around wearing a jazz jersey and punch all those pricks in their fancy junk and laugh when the jazz go up 2-0.
 
For what it's worth the playoff odds from 538 has the jazz winning 41 and getting the 8 seed over a projected 40 wins for Houston.

Espn bpi has jazz missing playoffs losing tie breaker with Houston at 41 wins.


Houston is garbage.
 
b_line said:
Bring on the eight seed. Imma be in east bay that week the jazz will start the playoffs. I will walk around wearing a jazz jersey and punch all those pricks in their fancy junk and laugh when the jazz go up 2-0.
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Haha I get a kick out of these bold crazy remarks.
 
Not to get too far ahead, but we embarrassed the Lakers badly. But they were dealing with some team issues in addition to sucking. They will be highly motivated for that final game. Revenge is a dish best served cold as they say.
 
It's hard to feel confident going into any of these final games. I just don't trust this team not to choke.
 
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