2025-2026 Tank Race Prediction Contest and Current Results Thread

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Depends. Did you say this back when we were playing nurk, Lauri, svi, etc every game or after we started tanking hard?

If the jazz continued to try to win games then I think we would be worried about Dallas.

No, it does not depend. The rational people have been talking down the tank-anxiety people because we know, based on everything that has been said this year by national media plus Locke and done in the past, the Jazz would do what was necessary.

We were right, they were wrong. We preached patience, they preached overreactions.

I told people all year the Jazz would be fine because they have the worst defense in teh NBA. I told people not to worry about Dallas because Dallas plays defense. And yes, even without AD Dallas still plays good defense.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Depends. Did you say this back when we were playing nurk, Lauri, svi, etc every game or after we started tanking hard?

If the jazz continued to try to win games then I think we would be worried about Dallas.

The Jazz front office was never conveying the pick. They aren’t stupid. It was baked in.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Sadly Embiid ended up playing tonight, so the Pacers W might be in jeopardy.

 

[sip]

Is there where I take a victory lap for saying I wasn’t worried about Dallas catching us or…

Don't ****ing jinx our ***!

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

The Jazz front office was never conveying the pick. They aren’t stupid. It was baked in.

You can bake it in if you want. But they flat out told us they wouldn't do the stuff they are doing... and they weren't doing it until the Bulls game. It was fair to question. I am going to go ahead and guess they had their own tankxiety attack before the pulled the ripcord.

or Lauri is actually really sick.

Ball is still in the air but I'm happy to be wrong.

 

[Elizah Huge]

You can bake it in if you want. But they flat out told us they wouldn't do the stuff they are doing... and they weren't doing it until the Bulls game. It was fair to question. I am going to go ahead and guess they had their own tankxiety attack before the pulled the ripcord.

or Lauri is actually really sick.

Ball is still in the air but I'm happy to be wrong.

It only gets easier as the amount of games left continues to go down. We also have a brutal end of the season schedule.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Is there where I take a victory lap for saying I wasn’t worried about Dallas catching us or…

too early mate. But feeling much more confident than a few weeks back

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It only gets easier as the amount of games left continues to go down. We also have a brutal end of the season schedule.

Dallas has the 3rd hardest remaining schedule and we have the 24th.

Dropping both in Dallas was really clutch and may be the difference in the end. Which would be magnificent after how hard Dallas fans cried.

 

[fishonjazz]

No, it does not depend. The rational people have been talking down the tank-anxiety people because we know, based on everything that has been said this year by national media plus Locke and done in the past, the Jazz would do what was necessary.

We were right, they were wrong. We preached patience, they preached overreactions.

I told people all year the Jazz would be fine because they have the worst defense in teh NBA. I told people not to worry about Dallas because Dallas plays defense. And yes, even without AD Dallas still plays good defense.

Incorrect.
No shenanigans.

Also, wherever we end up, we would have better odds if we started the shenanigans sooner like the tankers wanted. Better odds are better than worse odds

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Incorrect.
No shenanigans.

Also, wherever we end up, we would have better odds if we started the shenanigans sooner like the tankers wanted. Better odds are better than worse odds

Yes, you are an example of a tank anxiety person who doesn't understand the value of development through trying to put a competitive team on the court for as many games as you can get away with.

 

[fishonjazz]

You can bake it in if you want. But they flat out told us they wouldn't do the stuff they are doing... and they weren't doing it until the Bulls game. It was fair to question. I am going to go ahead and guess they had their own tankxiety attack before the pulled the ripcord.

or Lauri is actually really sick.

Ball is still in the air but I'm happy to be wrong.

This. The jazz obviously got tankxiety. If they didn't then they would have kept playing nurk, Lauri, svi etc.
Tanxiety forced them to go back on their no shenanigans stance.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Here is our final 19 games