The Jazz are better built for the playoffs this year

[framer]

It is exactly that success that has raised hopes and expectations. A couple visits to the finals just whetted everyone's appetite and years of being on the edge of being contenders has everyone sporting gigantic blue balls after being sent home without even a goodnight kiss. This is what entitlement without climax looks like I suppose.

Let's not pretend that you don't know EXACTLY what that feels like. . .

 

[fishonjazz]

One thing I think has changed this year vs last year is that last year we were more of 3 point shooting team. We had snipers in niang, Jingles, royce, bogey, clarkson, mitchell, and conley (I think thats it). The hydra.
Well this year we dont have niang, jingles, or clarkson (his shot has been off) to snipe from 3 but we do have guys that can get into the paint more and score with whiteside, paschall, gay, and forrest. Plus it seems like Donovan and Clarkson are going into the paint more than last year. Bogey is also going inside more whether via a drive or a post up too. I think as the season goes on we will move to more of a drive it inside team and less of jack up the three kind of team. I think that could bode well for the playoffs.
Dont get me wrong, we will still shoot a lot of threes but I think we will shoot a bit less of them and go inside more as the season goes on.

 

[Agent#00]

Really good point a rudy and his screen setting. That is really what sets him apart from whiteside on the offensive end. I could see forrest and rudy looking really good together with rudy amazing screen setting combined with forrest ability to attack.


Sent from my iPad using JazzFanz mobile app

OTOH Hassan have a nice baby hook and can pound the ball a bit.he also protects the ball better and doesn't complain about touches.

there I said it

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Because he's our most talented 2-way wing.

I'm not kidding with this. Clarkson can't guard. Forrest has negative gravity as a shooter. Royce can't score unless he's spoonfed. Bojan can't rotate on defense. Now maybe none of this matters in most matchups because we've got Gobert and other teams don't have the tools to exploit us the way the Clippers did. However, against the Grizzlies, Warriors and Suns, it probably will matter.

I don't think the Jazz were messing around bringing in NAW. Once he adjusts, he should be at least a 36% 3pt shooter in our system. He's going to be great in the pick-and-roll with Gobert because he's got the size to deliver passes, the length to get all the way to the rim and finish, and enough shooting that defenders can't go under screens. The only other guy we have like that is Donovan, who is one of the best pick-and-roll players in the league. Plus, NAW is a solid as a switchable perimeter defender.

The Pels team he was playing with was complete ***. They started the season 3-15, and they had no continuity in their personnel or lineups.

 

[Sean]

Of course that is how you see things. You are you.
No one is forcing you to watch em. I love watching the jazz. I really like wins. Had a great time watching the jazz tonight. Wins matter to me. The jazz have more of them than almost all teams in the nba in their history. That counts to me.

And no one is forcing you to share my opinion or reply to it. I said what I said.

If wins matter to you, you'd probably be a bit more annoyed at the fact they're 19th in overall playoff win percentage - despite being a team that consistently has made the playoffs over the 43 years they've played in Utah.

Utah is a great regular season team and an awful playoff team, especially the last 20 years.

Championships aside, the Jazz can't even get out of the second round anymore.

They've figured out new ways on how to lose a playoff series: including blowing a fifteen-point lead up 3-2 in a closeout game five and then of course blowing a 2-0 lead last year, as well as a 20+ point lead in a must-win game six.

None of that is winning.

But I get it. You're the reason the Jazz hang Midwest/Northwest Division banners in the arena because it's just good enough and the fans are content with constant playoff flameouts because they can point to the fact the team has made the playoffs consistently since relocating to Utah.

Meanwhile, a team like Milwaukee last year won the NBA title despite making the playoffs eight fewer times than the Jazz over the last 30 seasons - or a team like Phoenix, who might actually go out and win it all this year, despite having making one playoff appearance in the last decade-plus, which happened to result in a trip to the NBA Finals.

Then there's the Jazz and their 13 trips to the playoffs this century and every one of 'em, outside a fluke in 2007, have ended in either the first-round or semifinals.

I'd wager the Jazz likely have one of the worst playoff win percentages the last 20 years of any team who's played at least 10 playoff games.

That record? 42-61 (..407), which is far worse than their overall playoff win percentage - a total that is entirely propped up by the Stockton-Malone era that ... ended in no hardwood.

 

[fishonjazz]

And no one is forcing you to share my opinion or reply to it. I said what I said.

If wins matter to you, you'd probably be a bit more annoyed at the fact they're 19th in overall playoff win percentage - despite being a team that consistently has made the playoffs over the 43 years they've played in Utah.

Utah is a great regular season team and an awful playoff team, especially the last 20 years.

Championships aside, the Jazz can't even get out of the second round anymore.

They've figured out new ways on how to lose a playoff series: including blowing a fifteen-point lead up 3-2 in a closeout game five and then of course blowing a 2-0 lead last year, as well as a 20+ point lead in a must-win game six.

None of that is winning.

But I get it. You're the reason the Jazz hang Midwest/Northwest Division banners in the arena because it's just good enough and the fans are content with constant playoff flameouts because they can point to the fact the team has made the playoffs consistently since relocating to Utah.

Meanwhile, a team like Milwaukee last year won the NBA title despite making the playoffs eight fewer times than the Jazz over the last 30 seasons - or a team like Phoenix, who might actually go out and win it all this year, despite having making one playoff appearance in the last decade-plus, which happened to result in a trip to the NBA Finals.

Then there's the Jazz and their 13 trips to the playoffs this century and every one of 'em, outside a fluke in 2007, have ended in either the first-round or semifinals.

I'd wager the Jazz likely have one of the worst playoff win percentages the last 20 years of any team who's played at least 10 playoff games.

That record? 42-61 (..407), which is far worse than their overall playoff win percentage - a total that is entirely propped up by the Stockton-Malone era that ... ended in no hardwood.

Cry harder