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At this stage of the off-season, where do you think the Jazz finish in the West?

Where do you expect the Jazz to finish in the Western Conference standings?

  • Win the West

    Votes: 4 3.6%

  • Homecourt in the 1st round of the playoffs (2-4 seed)

    Votes: 7 6.3%

  • Playoff team (5 or 6 seed)

    Votes: 32 28.6%

  • Play-in team (7-10 seed)

    Votes: 57 50.9%

  • Bottom-5 team

    Votes: 12 10.7%
  • Total voters
    112
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
- 13th place in the west at the trade deadline.
- Finished 7th in regular season post trades.
- 2nd round in the playoffs.
- Swapped Schroeder for Vincent (a great 2 way player who started for the heat on that magical playoff finals run)
- Swapped Beasley for Prince (a plus)
- Retained all their key contributors
- Cam is their 12th man? Nothing special but rui wasn't either
- Lebron and AD are still really good

Its not hard to see the Lakers as a top 6 seed this year barring injuries. They are better than us on paper.
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It all depends on how many games Lebron and AD miss due to injuries and how well Lebron can lead a team at age 38/39.
 
Houston should be better but they acquired the two worst volume shooters in the league in FVV and Brooks. Add that on top of Jalen Green… I’m not sure they got a whole lot better… they got more professional for sure but I think they really gonna be rough.
 
I dont get the hype on Suns. Sure their individual scoring talent will probably get them to a top 3 seed but they dont have any elite defenders and their paint presence sort of sucks on both ends.

Beal and Booker overlap too much, and neither one is an elite 3P shooter (Beal used to be, but has been very mediocre over the past 7 years).

Its more reminiscent of KD+Harden+Irving than KD+Steph+Klay.. not to mention they dont have anything close to Draymond.

Fans and media are so easily blinded when you stack enough high PPG guys together. All successful superteams have become successful because they are versatile and usually have at least 1 elite defender (think Rodman, Draymond, Lebron, Duncan).
 
Jingled said:
DraftKings has the Jazz at 34.5 wins, Caesars Sportsbook has them at 31.5.
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Thought it might be a little lower because Utah generally doesn't get a ton of action... I think that is still free money at Caesars. DraftKings I could see if we had terrible injuries.
 
I think we will be somewhere in that 35 win range based on our current roster.
 
All-Stars: Lauri
Really good starters: Kessler, Clarkson, Collins
Solid starter/rotation player: Sexton, KO
Bench pieces that are definitely NBA players: Ochai, THT, Dunn
Promising but who knows: George, Tay Henny, Sensabaugh, Room Exception Player if used.

Feels like 38 plus wins to me with solid health and normal luck.
 
Jingled said:
I would definitely take the over on both. I think we win around 40 games.
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Downside is always easier to achieve with injuries but yeah... we got some good players and a great coach. A bunch of young guys that might be awesome but we don't need them to be. Still one or two moves around the edges.
 
@One Brow is it too early to start the annual western conference prediction thread? I suppose we may see a few more moves, but my bet is not much earth-shattering until at least the trade deadline. Thoughts?
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
All-Stars: Lauri
Really good starters: Kessler, Clarkson, Collins
Solid starter/rotation player: Sexton, KO
Bench pieces that are definitely NBA players: Ochai, THT, Dunn
Promising but who knows: George, Tay Henny, Sensabaugh, Room Exception Player if used.

Feels like 38 plus wins to me with solid health and normal luck.
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I am assuming Tay Henny is Hendricks and not some weird G League dude.


Of course we don't know yet, he might end up killing it in the G League I guess.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I am assuming Tay Henny is Hendricks and not some weird G League dude.


Of course we don't know yet, he might end up killing it in the G League I guess.
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The point is really that we have 9 bona fide NBA players...
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Downside is always easier to achieve with injuries but yeah... we got some good players and a great coach. A bunch of young guys that might be awesome but we don't need them to be. Still one or two moves around the edges.
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We won 37 games last year and we were tanking our asses off the last few weeks of the season. All indications are the Jazz want to be good this season so that the OKC pick will convey. Barring serious injuries, I don't see how we could be worse than last year.
 
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Anyone want some easy money, bet the over on wins for this year. Wow those are some low estimates.
 
Jingled said:
We won 36 games last year and we were tanking our asses off the last few weeks of the season. All indications are the Jazz want to be good this season so that the OKC pick will convey. Barring serious injuries, I don't see how we could be worse than last year.
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Injuries. Kessler or Lauri going down for a long period could wreak havoc. I also think Mike helped quite a bit while here. I agree on the tanking part but we also won a good portion of our close games. If you told me Lauri and Kessler played 75+ games each... then I fully agree. I also don't think we tank. If I was trying to nail the win total exactly I'd say 40 games is the right number (cuz you kind of have to assume solid health)
 
Are we gonna underestimate the team and the players we have second year in a row?

Vegas is setting our total low to balance out over/under action. We dont have sexy names so we get overlooked by the regular Joes who are not Jazz fans.

But everyone in this forum should know better. We saw this team being 1 game under .500 still at March 21st well after trading away Conley and having to eventually sit Lauri, Sexton, JC and Kessler to drop significantly below the .500.
 
LogGrad98 said:
@One Brow is it too early to start the annual western conference prediction thread? I suppose we may see a few more moves, but my bet is not much earth-shattering until at least the trade deadline. Thoughts?
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I was thinking early October, after training camps start. If Lillard is moved within the Western Conference, that could change people's predictions, and I don't want too messy of a thread to sort through.
 
I voted 5 or 6 seed.
 
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