FWIW I listened to the Hoops Collective and Zach Lowe and both mentioned the Jazz sitting players in the fourth, but neither singled out the Jazz. They were talking about all the teams.
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I thought they were fair-ish. Everyone looks past Indiana lol. I get they had an injury but they are managing the eff out of this now.
Group chat, the athletic, and Le Batard were all pretty damning. The Le Batard guy was like "Will Hardy is point shaving... go straight to jail".
Y’all are killing me with this **** because I. am. game. as. hell. to try out **** like this.
Apparently Hayes is KILLING in the G and still only 24. Don’t have any updates on Poku.
POKU UPDATE: dude can barely contribute overseas right now.
Is this how people want the Jazz to tank? Cuz I’m fine with it.
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Some of the conversation around this has gotten kind of deranged. Like, I get that we didn’t close out with Lauri or JJJ, but the guys we did play have all been part of the rotation this year and have been understood to be players we are trying to develop as potential long term pieces. In other words, we haven’t been throwing out random g league *** lineups. Hell, we still almost won that game! It makes me wonder how familiar some of these national guys even are with the Jazz.
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they aren't. They will say things like "they've done this all year". Our record in close games was pretty great until we actually started doing this stuff.
Ultimately I don't give a ****. Unless we get to the point where perception is reality and the league actually steps in with meaningful action.
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To your point I’ve seen complaints online about the Jazz benching Ace Bailey as part of the tank. Which obviously hasn’t happened and doesn’t even make sense to do.
I’m with you on the second point, if the Jazz are running afoul of the league’s rules, then the league can handle it. Otherwise it’s just noise for the content merchants.
Gentlemen the tank is at serious risk, we're going to need to invent some pretty unique injuries to get us through this crisis . This is what is waiting for our little tank, made by Krupp, its called the 88mm Jaren Jackson Jnr tank destroying gun. It even comes with a nerd who likes to play dress ups.
