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Hollinger Power Ranking....Utah Jazz ranked 12th WTF???

What Billy said. Hollinger has no opinion. He runs his formula and it tells him what to think. Pretty much scoring margin is his main factor. Silly things like W/L record take a backseat to being able to dominate crappy teams and lose to everybody else.
 
Houston is ahead of us because they have played a lot harder teams.

Our strength of schedule is sub .500. Theirs is almost .600
 
Top 10 teams don't get down 20 consistently and have to dig their way out. Top 10 teams control the game.

While I agree we should be ranked higher, the Jazz need to get it together and stop losing control of games early. If we were playing the Lakers or the Celtics there's no way we grind out a win. No way.
 
BabyPeterzz said:
Top 10 teams don't get down 20 consistently and have to dig their way out. Top 10 teams control the game.

While I agree we should be ranked higher, the Jazz need to get it together and stop losing control of games early. If we were playing the Lakers or the Celtics there's no way we grind out a win. No way.
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Agree. Though I admire this team's resiliency, we could just as easily be 2-8 right now instead of 7-3 or somewhere in between. Jazz have got to find a way to shoot better from the start. The tremendous comebacks have also forced the starters to play way too many minutes. That's going to take a toll as the season progresses. And we're really in trouble if one of our main 6 goes down.
 
LunaticWolf said:
Houston is ahead of us because they have played a lot harder teams.

Our strength of schedule is sub .500. Theirs is almost .600
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I know that. That doesn't make the ranking system any less flawed. A 2-6 team is rated higher than a 7-3 team just because their schedule is harder. Why don't we just let the teams with the hardest schedules at the end of the season make the playoffs?
 
And I think we all know the big deficits have to stop and they will. A team still developing chemistry together is prone to inconsistencies. High high's and low low's. But I'll take the result from this road trip every single time, even if it has to come the way it did. It was just one of those bizarre things...
 
My question is why do we care? His equation has us at 12 so what. The only thing that matters is win/loss. Doesn't matter if you win in triple overtime or if you blow teams out. At the end of the season you get home court via win/loss.
 
Funny how the usual suspects can bash no matter what. We wouldnt beat so and so like this. We need to do this, or that. We won. That is all that matters.
 
Scorpjazz said:
Funny how the usual suspects can bash no matter what. We wouldnt beat so and so like this. We need to do this, or that. We won. That is all that matters.
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We did win. Against 3 of the best teams in the East. On the road. With hardly any rest. Even though half of the team is made up of new players. And despite the fact we played some of the worst professional basketball ever in the first halves.

The Jazz are going to be special.
 
Yeah, the Jazz have beaten OKC, Miami, Orlando and Atlanta already this season, all on the road. The Jazz have had as tough a schedule as anyone.
 
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