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What will you give up for a Jazz win?

mellow

mellow

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All the tanking considered I still want my jazz to win. The 7 game losing streak is embarrassing and the losing has to stop, so I am going to give up my daily Pepsi cola break until the jazz win.

What will you give up until the jazz win?







Please keep it clean for the kids. And for you that still live with mom, it doesn't count if you give up something that you never get anyway.
 
Reducing my 3 long bathroom breaks a day - to escape the monotony that is my desk job to read jazzfanz on the toilet - down to 2.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using JazzFanz mobile app
 
I'd give up my weekend I have to work this or next week for sure.
 
I would like to rain on a few parades with this. Not really, but there are some pretty high expectations out there about what a high draft pick can mean to our team. I know you can come up with a few cases of teams improving quite dramatically after a high pick but there remains the reverse side of those picks. To wit!! Check out the draft records ( top 5 ) of two teams over the past 5 years and then track the won/loss records of those teams over the same period Those teams are the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Cleveland Cavaliers who both have had 4 top 5 picks over the last five years. Cleveland was at 19 wins at the beginning and have improved all the way up to 21 wins. The T-Wolves fared slightly better going from 22 wins to 31 wins.
Minny picked 3,5,4,2 between 2008 and 2011. The Cavs 4 and 1 in 2011 4th in 2012 and 1 in 2013. I realize that there is luck involved with the choices and some teams draft smarter than others, but i see no reason why anyone should feel that a high draft choice, even a number 1, will inevitably lead to great success. The Thunder did draft some real difference makers in their formulative years and it still took 3-4 years before any real success started to come.
 
Grandpa Jazz said:
I would like to rain on a few parades with this. Not really, but there are some pretty high expectations out there about what a high draft pick can mean to our team. I know you can come up with a few cases of teams improving quite dramatically after a high pick but there remains the reverse side of those picks. To wit!! Check out the draft records ( top 5 ) of two teams over the past 5 years and then track the won/loss records of those teams over the same period Those teams are the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Cleveland Cavaliers who both have had 4 top 5 picks over the last five years. Cleveland was at 19 wins at the beginning and have improved all the way up to 21 wins. The T-Wolves fared slightly better going from 22 wins to 31 wins.
Minny picked 3,5,4,2 between 2008 and 2011. The Cavs 4 and 1 in 2011 4th in 2012 and 1 in 2013. I realize that there is luck involved with the choices and some teams draft smarter than others, but i see no reason why anyone should feel that a high draft choice, even a number 1, will inevitably lead to great success. The Thunder did draft some real difference makers in their formulative years and it still took 3-4 years before any real success started to come.
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Good point except that this draft is projected as an "All-Time" great draft, along the lines of '03. If it is, let's just hope the Jazz don't end up with Darko.
 
Grandpa Jazz said:
I would like to rain on a few parades with this. Not really, but there are some pretty high expectations out there about what a high draft pick can mean to our team. I know you can come up with a few cases of teams improving quite dramatically after a high pick but there remains the reverse side of those picks. To wit!! Check out the draft records ( top 5 ) of two teams over the past 5 years and then track the won/loss records of those teams over the same period Those teams are the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Cleveland Cavaliers who both have had 4 top 5 picks over the last five years. Cleveland was at 19 wins at the beginning and have improved all the way up to 21 wins. The T-Wolves fared slightly better going from 22 wins to 31 wins.
Minny picked 3,5,4,2 between 2008 and 2011. The Cavs 4 and 1 in 2011 4th in 2012 and 1 in 2013. I realize that there is luck involved with the choices and some teams draft smarter than others, but i see no reason why anyone should feel that a high draft choice, even a number 1, will inevitably lead to great success. The Thunder did draft some real difference makers in their formulative years and it still took 3-4 years before any real success started to come.
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Cavs draft like morons and the Wolves had Kahn. The end.
 
Grandpa Jazz said:
I would like to rain on a few parades with this. Not really, but there are some pretty high expectations out there about what a high draft pick can mean to our team. I know you can come up with a few cases of teams improving quite dramatically after a high pick but there remains the reverse side of those picks. To wit!! Check out the draft records ( top 5 ) of two teams over the past 5 years and then track the won/loss records of those teams over the same period Those teams are the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Cleveland Cavaliers who both have had 4 top 5 picks over the last five years. Cleveland was at 19 wins at the beginning and have improved all the way up to 21 wins. The T-Wolves fared slightly better going from 22 wins to 31 wins.
Minny picked 3,5,4,2 between 2008 and 2011. The Cavs 4 and 1 in 2011 4th in 2012 and 1 in 2013. I realize that there is luck involved with the choices and some teams draft smarter than others, but i see no reason why anyone should feel that a high draft choice, even a number 1, will inevitably lead to great success. The Thunder did draft some real difference makers in their formulative years and it still took 3-4 years before any real success started to come.
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Breakin out the Seagrams VO
 
I just want a win, y'all can keep your tank. One win won't affect it. I'm tired of my jazz being a joke and don't want them to be the answer to any trivia questions.

"What team has the record for the most consecutive loses in an nba season"

"What team finished with the fewest wins in an 82 game season?"

Did you know the longest Jazz losing streak is 18 in 1982.

The Jazz have never lost 60 games in a season.

Ty Corbin's longest losing streak was 8, Jerry's was 9.
Go Jazz !
 
I'm not particularly worried about it because we'll probably win a lot more games later in the year as we get some more experience (and hopefully a coach) and we will need to rack up as many Ls as possible for some type of cushion.
 
Grandpa Jazz said:
I would like to rain on a few parades with this. Not really, but there are some pretty high expectations out there about what a high draft pick can mean to our team. I know you can come up with a few cases of teams improving quite dramatically after a high pick but there remains the reverse side of those picks. To wit!! Check out the draft records ( top 5 ) of two teams over the past 5 years and then track the won/loss records of those teams over the same period Those teams are the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Cleveland Cavaliers who both have had 4 top 5 picks over the last five years. Cleveland was at 19 wins at the beginning and have improved all the way up to 21 wins. The T-Wolves fared slightly better going from 22 wins to 31 wins.
Minny picked 3,5,4,2 between 2008 and 2011. The Cavs 4 and 1 in 2011 4th in 2012 and 1 in 2013. I realize that there is luck involved with the choices and some teams draft smarter than others, but i see no reason why anyone should feel that a high draft choice, even a number 1, will inevitably lead to great success. The Thunder did draft some real difference makers in their formulative years and it still took 3-4 years before any real success started to come.
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This is generally true but you need to get into specifics

If we were tanking so we could draft alex len, victor oladipo, nerlens noel, kyrie irving, enes kanter, jonas, derrick williams, trey burke or something then i think most of us would not be down for the tank

However if we are tanking for lebron james, michael jordan, hakeem olijuwan, karl malone then tanking is fantastic.
I think alot of us believe there are at least 3 of those types of players in this draft.
 
mellow said:
I just want a win, y'all can keep your tank. One win won't affect it. I'm tired of my jazz being a joke and don't want them to be the answer to any trivia questions.

"What team has the record for the most consecutive loses in an nba season"

"What team finished with the fewest wins in an 82 game season?"

Did you know the longest Jazz losing streak is 18 in 1982.

The Jazz have never lost 60 games in a season.

Ty Corbin's longest losing streak was 8, Jerry's was 9.
Go Jazz !
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infection said:
I'm not particularly worried about it because we'll probably win a lot more games later in the year as we get some more experience (and hopefully a coach) and we will need to rack up as many Ls as possible for some type of cushion.
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Allah dis right hurr
 
Grandpa Jazz said:
I would like to rain on a few parades with this. Not really, but there are some pretty high expectations out there about what a high draft pick can mean to our team. I know you can come up with a few cases of teams improving quite dramatically after a high pick but there remains the reverse side of those picks. To wit!! Check out the draft records ( top 5 ) of two teams over the past 5 years and then track the won/loss records of those teams over the same period Those teams are the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Cleveland Cavaliers who both have had 4 top 5 picks over the last five years. Cleveland was at 19 wins at the beginning and have improved all the way up to 21 wins. The T-Wolves fared slightly better going from 22 wins to 31 wins.
Minny picked 3,5,4,2 between 2008 and 2011. The Cavs 4 and 1 in 2011 4th in 2012 and 1 in 2013. I realize that there is luck involved with the choices and some teams draft smarter than others, but i see no reason why anyone should feel that a high draft choice, even a number 1, will inevitably lead to great success. The Thunder did draft some real difference makers in their formulative years and it still took 3-4 years before any real success started to come.
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Just one more thing in regards to this.

The jazz are not "just tanking". They are also evaluating/developing thier young guys and picking up future assets. (we do have TWO firsts in this loaded draft, our own 2nd round pick might be pretty good in a draft like this, plus we got a first in 2017 and some more 2nds, and cap space next year)
 
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