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Official Round 1 Predictions: Jazz-V-Thunder

The Favors Ingles pick and roll against Carmelo will be a monster.

Quin is such a better coach, the only way we lose is if Westbrook and George (and maybe Melo) just go nuts like Lillard did yesterday.
 
7StraightIsGreat said:
Everybody that keeps bringing this up must not understand the HUGE difference betweeb OKC’s HC Advantage vs that joke of what the Clippers refer to as a “home crowd”. Plus, I think this OKC team is better than the Clipper team we faced last year.
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Not to mention we are playing at a much higher level than we were last year and we are healthy unlike last year in the playoffs. We literally had every starter with an injury in the playoffs. If you count food poisoning.

Also I'm not sure okc is better than the clippers last year. Stats don't back that up.
 
Jazz in 6.

OKC isn't the best 3 point shooting team around. I think that that will play into Utah's hands as they funnel every drive to Rudy and force the Thunder to take contested jumpers when they can't drive to the rim. The rebounding battle will be critical to the series. As long as the Jazz can keep Adams off of the glass and limit OKC to one shot per possession they should get plenty of stops because they are the best defense in the NBA. Westbrook will get his. No question. Just like CP3 and Blake did in the 1st round last year. But I think the Jazz will do a good job limiting everyone else. I expect the depth and defense of the Jazz to prevail.
 
Jazz in 5
We split the first games, figure them out, then go for the sweep, closing them out on their floor.
PG looks at Quin Snyder after the final game and says "Sensei, do for me what you did for Joe ****ing Jingles" .

The flood of FAs looking to hitch their wagons to the Jazz gravy train begins.

Utah has its pick of the FA litter, and the Jazz dynasty officially begins.

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7StraightIsGreat said:
Everybody that keeps bringing this up must not understand the HUGE difference betweeb OKC’s HC Advantage vs that joke of what the Clippers refer to as a “home crowd”. Plus, I think this OKC team is better than the Clipper team we faced last year.
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I do understand their home court. I know that it's better than clippers. much better. Does that mean Jazz will never win a game in OKC? hell no. I still think Jazz will win the series.

also where did I say anything about home court? lol
 
Looks like some people already gave up on us before game 1. lmao

well some people also thought we are not gonna win 40 games this year. lol
 
JAZZGASM said:
Actually one more:

We need @Douchebag K to make a statement that it is mathematically impossible for the Jazz to win a championship. And if they do he will change his legal name to match his board name. Seems a worthy sacrifice.
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Aren’t you the dude who stopped watching Jazz games because things weren’t going well a couple seasons back ?
 
Douchebag K said:
Aren’t you the dude who stopped watching Jazz games because things weren’t going well a couple seasons back ?
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I got frustrated the last couple weeks of 2016 after watching every televised game for over 21 years. Excuse me for getting frustrated. I just wasn't jazzgasming for a while. Think it was a culmination of drudging through the Corbin years and seeing very limited sets from Snyder, with very few adjustments or wrinkles. This season has been much better, although I still see a lot of the same flaws in our offense that I saw two years ago, and Portland exploited last night. When teams are aggressive to avoid letting us set up on ball screens we falter because the offense relies on screen mismatches and passing. Hopefully there is a remedy if OKC does the same thing. I still think that running UCLA with our roster could be very efficient in today's NBA, and all the back screens and cut would open up a lot as they are much harder to avoid than on ball screens.

I do see a different attitude and fight with this team than I have seen from any other team including the S&M teams.
 
7StraightIsGreat said:
I don’t think it’s that at all. I totally understand why the Jazz lost to Portland they way they did. It was a perfect storm for a Portland victory. I literally factor zero of last nights performance into how we will do vs OKC. However, the fact of the matter is that I don’t think we can win 2 games in OKC and I think that’s what it will take to win this series. Thus, losing HC cost us a chance to advance. (Again, I HOPE I’m wrong)
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You will be, so congrats in advance.
 
Ron Mexico said:
Not to mention we are playing at a much higher level than we were last year and we are healthy unlike last year in the playoffs. We literally had every starter with an injury in the playoffs. If you count food poisoning.

Also I'm not sure okc is better than the clippers last year. Stats don't back that up.
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Stats are tough to gage from one year to the next considering how much the landscape of the Western Conference shifted in the offseason. You can point the any stat or advanced analytic that you’d like, I’ll trust the eye test. I know it’s just opinion, but I absolutely feel like this is a better team than the Clipper squad from last year with a much more formidable HCA.

Yes, the Jazz are also improved, and more healthy than last year. That’s why I think this series is far from unwinable for Utah. I’m still picking OKC though....
 
7StraightIsGreat said:
Stats are tough to gage from one year to the next considering how much the landscape of the Western Conference shifted in the offseason. You can point the any stat or advanced analytic that you’d like, I’ll trust the eye test. I know it’s just opinion, but I absolutely feel like this is a better team than the Clipper squad from last year with a much more formidable HCA.

Yes, the Jazz are also improved, and more healthy than last year. That’s why I think this series is far from unwinable for Utah. I’m still picking OKC though....
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Fair enough. My eyes tell me that OKC is meh this year and not really any better than last year. The Clippers team was a veteran team that played well together.

But even if you think OKC is better than last years Clippers I would point to stats and the eye test that this current squad is playing much much better than last years Jazz squad this time of year. We rolled into the playoffs with a hobbled Favors, Hill and Hood. Then we lost Gobert right off the bat and we lost Hayward for 1 of the games. On top of that even if healthy that team never played at the high level this team has played at post all-star.
 
Catchall said:
The Jazz *can* win this, but the margin of error is very small. If PG13 and WBrook hit contested 28-ft 3-pointers, then hat's off to them. I believe in the Jazz's defense for sure, but they're going to have to find a way to score the ball. Rubio going to have to shoot well. Ingles and Crowder are going to need to shoot well. But someone else needs to step up and make plays on offense. Maybe Royce O'Neale surprises. Maybe Alec Burks has a good game or two.

One potential hero for the Jazz is Derrick Favors, if he goes beast mode.
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So you're saying that we need someone to contribute outside of Rubio, Ingles and Crowder. If only we could think of someone. Hmmmmmitchell.
 
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