Game Thread Nov 02, 2025 04:00PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Charlotte Hornets

[slc]

Jazz have to stink bad for one more year and hope for another top 5 pick
Then play to win and hope to still draft good players whatever the picks may be

 

[baka98]

And here I was worried that the jazz were going to be too good this year….

 

[jumpin bean]

i dont hate the losing because of the tank but the effort or lack there of is on the coach

 

[jom2003]

Not sure why people are so bummed, this was a needed game.

I hate the tanking and rooting to lose too, but it’s completely necessary. There is not viable plan other than keeping the pick this year. We can blame DL and it sucks that it’s how I remember Favors at this point, but accept it and root for the suck.

After this year it is full steam ahead rooting for our team like normal fans for the foreseeable future, even if we’re mid. But we gotta suck up one more year of this.

The thing is I'd rather tank with the inexperience of Ace/Filip/Brice’s than running with Svi who's not even gonna be on the team next year. This reminds me a lot of Corbin who played Marvin on an expiring contract over the rookie Gobert. I think it costed his job.

 

[outerspacefan]

Jazz got to tank, not to stink.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Jazz got to tank, not to stink.

It’s impossible to have a bottom three record and not stink.

Any team that looks mostly competent won’t lose nearly enough

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It’s impossible to have a bottom three record and not stink.

Any team that looks mostly competent won’t lose nearly enough

Can’t have it both ways.

This Walker thing could be an extended absence. This thing is lingering. Silver lining is we will be awful without him.

 

[jazznik]

"I’m sorry but the Jazz should be embarrassed. The Hornets started 3 rookies, were without Ball and Miller, and the game was over by the middle of the second quarter."

 

[Tremendous Upside]

i dont hate the losing because of the tank but the effort or lack there of is on the coach

The effort is one of the few things players can control on the court. That is NOT on the coach.

 

[jumpin bean]

if the players feel that the coach is not putting them in a position to win through scheming or lineups or telling the media every game how mad he is at the players its going to effect the effort of the players especially when its a young coach thats record now is 87 wins and 165 losses players might be just saying losing is ok because thats what coach wants

 

[Tanktastic]

Not sure why people are so bummed, this was a needed game.

I hate the tanking and rooting to lose too, but it’s completely necessary.

Because it, again, exposed where the Jazz really are.

And that is in the garbage, with a coach who talks a good game but in four years hasn't gotten a single player to play D. And all the assets the Jazz used to have, have been turned into guys that don't make a difference or are complete busts.

After this year it is full steam ahead rooting for our team like normal fans for the foreseeable future, even if we’re mid. But we gotta suck up one more year of this.

The Jazz won't be mid next year and just suck for this season. They will be garbage for several more years, at a minimum, unless they change their players and change the coach. That's the reality.