Game Thread Dec 15, 2025 07:00PM MT: Dallas Mavericks @ Utah Jazz

[jazznik]

Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Wasatch front. Our forces have won a glorious victory.

 

[rocfan1]

Keyfensive stopper

Seriously Key’s defense really made a different in OT. He’s a beast!!

 

[JazzMan4Life]

Key, Lauri, flip, and Collier all played really well in OT and Cody showed flashes of an NBA player. Fun win.

 

[homeytennis]

RIP the tank. Our young guys don't suck. The future so's bright I gotta wear shades.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

RIP the tank. Our young guys don't suck. The future so's bright I gotta wear shades.

Too good to tank! The future is now and Lauri ain’t gettin any younger!

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Really wish I could just enjoy this season for what it is

 

[Zombie]

Really wish I could just enjoy this season for what it is

If you can’t enjoy a night like tonight- full on youth movement, huge games from our best players, and promising play from the rest - then you just gotta tune the Jazz out for the rest of year.

There will be literally no enjoyment for you to find otherwise.

 

[Step-Back Lauri]

They did it with Lauri and the young guys, just.have to take it. The pick might slip away. It's Lauri out in a trade, DNP's for key or Lauri.. Or bye bye pick. Rough spot to be on but
Key proving to be top 10-15 scorer possibly in the long run. How about that?

 

[Elizah Huge]

Make a trade to get Key and Lauri some help

 

[Zombie]

Make a trade to get Key and Lauri some help

New objective, give OKC the worst pick we possibly can.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

If you can’t enjoy a night like tonight- full on youth movement, huge games from our best players, and promising play from the rest - then you just gotta tune the Jazz out for the rest of year.

There will be literally no enjoyment for you to find otherwise.

Season as a whole, not an individual game.

It’s cool that this is happening, it just sucks to be watching it always aware of the larger context. If we had our pick, or this was next year, it’d be one of the most fun seasons of the last decade. I know these are good developments in the long run, just definitely not having as much fun with it as I should be.

 

[Max Porter]

I still think we should tank here's why. I do think Ace can be really good but we just saw how huge the gap was between Cooper and Ace. Ace is a long ways off right now he's very one dimensional and can't create his own shot, Hendricks is a long ways off, Williams is a long ways off and we don't know how Walker will recover from his injury. There's too much risk NOT tanking for one more year since this will be the last chance we get in awhile to get a great player from the draft that will be stacked. Plus free agents don't want to come here. Do we want to be really good in a couple years or do we want to be a contender?? The only aces in the hole rn are still Key and Lauri. It's not enough.

 

[Zombie]

Season as a whole, not an individual game.

It’s cool that this is happening, it just sucks to be watching it always aware of the larger context. If we had our pick, or this was next year, it’d be one of the most fun seasons of the last decade. I know these are good developments in the long run, just definitely not having as much fun with it as I should be.

I totally understand where you’re coming from, the Jazz are in an awkward position for sure but like, **** it. A meteor might come streaking down from the sky and drop on your head tomorrow. Enjoy the wins as they come and for what they are, and let the chips fall where they may. This should be the philosophy for anyone who isn’t a member of the Jazz front office imo.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If this is how we win, this is how we should win!

All I’ve been saying.

Also Dallas without AD is *** and I told y’all.

 

[LogGrad98]

Welp, we ****ed up another one. Gonna lose this pick and miss the playoffs and have no way to get further ahead. Mediocrity treadmill here we come. But hey, Key can score, so that's the consolation prize I guess. **** me.

 

[Zombie]

Welp, we ****ed up another one. Gonna lose this pick and miss the playoffs and have no way to get further ahead. Mediocrity treadmill here we come. But hey, Key can score, so that's the consolation prize I guess. **** me.

Beyond parody. Literally why are you even following the team at this point if this is your reaction.

 

[KqWIN]

All I’ve been saying.

Also Dallas without AD is *** and I told y’all.

At some point we may have to pay for our quarter season of F’ing around an go to the extremes like DAL did tonight with Davis. Or maybe our young guys are actually just too good to tank. Both are fine. Either way this should have started day 1.

I still think odds at top 4 and keeping the pick are vital to our future, but if we’re going to lose it, it better be because our young guys are too good.

 

[KqWIN]

Even if it’s just as a backup, I think Flip’s long term role is as a 5. His skill is just so much more valuable. Nothing interesting about him at the 4.

 

[LogGrad98]

Beyond parody. Literally why are you even following the team at this point if this is your reaction.

The answer was just one post later, holy crap!

At some point we may have to pay for our quarter season of F’ing around an go to the extremes like DAL did tonight with Davis. Or maybe our young guys are actually just too good to tank. Both are fine. Either way this should have started day 1.

I still think odds at top 4 and keeping the pick are vital to our future, but if we’re going to lose it, it better be because our young guys are too good.

Imagine that but some fans don't want to watch a team languish in the *****er for decades on end, imagine that! Can you believe that some fans have a different opinion on what being a fan means than you do? I know, I can't believe it either. Downright shocking.

 

[Zombie]

The answer was just one post later, holy crap!



Imagine that but some fans don't want to watch a team languish in the *****er for decades on end, imagine that! Can you believe that some fans have a different opinion on what being a fan means than you do? I know, I can't believe it either. Downright shocking.

If you wanna crash out over it go right ahead. It’s just weird and kind of sad is all.