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Having the Nuggets as your local team could definitely cause clinical depression.
Positive Jazz comment coming from an outsider
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Having the Nuggets as your local team could definitely cause clinical depression.
ncoloradojazz
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Yes just had surgery so I am confined to house for a little bit
ncoloradojazz
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it occurs to me that both the Jazz and the Nuggets have the same amount of championships.
Stifle Tower
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Yes, but both are on completely different trajectories right now. I will concede the Nuggets had a decent run for 10 years of making the playoffs, but exited in the 1st round nine of those years and the WC Finals once. Jazz made the playoffs 5 times in that same period, but had a couple of semifinals in addition to one WC final. So we'll call that about equal.
C'mon, I know your pot head friends will shun you, but it's time to lay aside your Grateful Dead music and come out of the closet. We'll support you once you've declared your Jazz love. There's no shame. We'll welcome you into our circle, jerk (punctuation makes ALL the difference, doesn't it)?
I think we can even start a GoRepMe campaign to reverse that -720 rating. But YOU have to take that first step.
I absolutely hate this notion that you have to have a "go-to guy" or an "alpha dog" or a "superstar" in order to do anything in the NBA.
This is stuff people who are looking backwards say. This Jazz team has the potential to break the mold.
Just think for a second about what you would have thought about someone telling you ten years ago about winning a title with small ball. Good thing the Warriors believed in who they were and played their game instead of ****ing that up going after a team that played basketball according to some old formula that worked one time.
The funny thing is that now you see half the NBA trying to imitate the Warriors, and doing it poorly. None of the imitators are going to win a title trying to copy what the Warriors have done.
The Jazz need to look inwards, not outwards, to find their best self.
This team has a go-to guy, alpha dog, superstar. Only thing is that NBA fans are used to looking for that guy on one end of the court and not the other.
This team is going to win on the defensive end. Gobert is the defensive superstar that is going to drive that culture and that revolution in Utah and eventually we'll shatter the mold and other teams will trip over each other trying to be us.
I'm not saying there's no room to add pieces. I'm not saying the team is perfect as is. And I'm not saying we're going to win right now. But we don't need to build a team based on cliches. We've got Gobert and Favors protecting the paint. We're good.
This is stuff people who are looking backwards say. This Jazz team has the potential to break the mold.
Just think for a second about what you would have thought about someone telling you ten years ago about winning a title with small ball. Good thing the Warriors believed in who they were and played their game instead of ****ing that up going after a team that played basketball according to some old formula that worked one time.
The funny thing is that now you see half the NBA trying to imitate the Warriors, and doing it poorly. None of the imitators are going to win a title trying to copy what the Warriors have done.
The Jazz need to look inwards, not outwards, to find their best self.
This team has a go-to guy, alpha dog, superstar. Only thing is that NBA fans are used to looking for that guy on one end of the court and not the other.
This team is going to win on the defensive end. Gobert is the defensive superstar that is going to drive that culture and that revolution in Utah and eventually we'll shatter the mold and other teams will trip over each other trying to be us.
I'm not saying there's no room to add pieces. I'm not saying the team is perfect as is. And I'm not saying we're going to win right now. But we don't need to build a team based on cliches. We've got Gobert and Favors protecting the paint. We're good.
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Miggs
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Facial reconstructive surgery isn't gonna eliminate all the stupid in you.
Rodney Hood, in the calendar year 2016, has posted a TS% of 59.25%.
I took every point guard, shooting guard, and small forward in the NBA that attempt at least 12 shots per game (figuring to eliminate your "role-players, secondary guys, and glue guys", as OP puts it), and among that group, only Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, James Harden, and Kevin Durant have a higher TS% than 59.25%.
Oddly enough, it looks like in Calendar Year 2016, among volume shooters (>12 FGA) and non-bigs, Rodney Hood (a second-year player, mind you) has been about as good of a go-to guy as you can find.
Not that outsiders would be paying attention to that sort of thing.
I took every point guard, shooting guard, and small forward in the NBA that attempt at least 12 shots per game (figuring to eliminate your "role-players, secondary guys, and glue guys", as OP puts it), and among that group, only Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, James Harden, and Kevin Durant have a higher TS% than 59.25%.
Oddly enough, it looks like in Calendar Year 2016, among volume shooters (>12 FGA) and non-bigs, Rodney Hood (a second-year player, mind you) has been about as good of a go-to guy as you can find.
Not that outsiders would be paying attention to that sort of thing.
ncoloradojazz
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History shows you do need a go to guy however. Even the Spurs had Timmy who was beast mode for long time but played within the system./ Not one future HOFer on your team at this point. That's not going get it done. Go find the last team to wina chip without a hofer or a projected one.
ncoloradojazz
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Nice, I see you know the town.. Lots of good bars in old town.
Houston has a GO TO guy this year. How's that working out for them?
Miggs
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The Pistons. Only Billups and Rasheed have a chance at the HOF in my opinion and I def don't think the latter will get in and also don't think the former deserves to get in.
Most of those "go-to" guys were born in the finals. We wouldn't think of them that way had they not performed that way when it mattered.
Detroit Pistons in 2004. No projected hall of Famers. And a great defense.