I admit that Utah's start took me by surprise, but looking at their schedule to open the season, it really doesn't anymore. Thus far, out of Utah's 18 games, 12 have been at home. Over the next four games, three more are at home. So, 1/3 of the way through their season, they will have played 15 home games, and only 7 road games. With the next 3 out of 4 day stretch coming up of PDX/LAC/@GS, and then LAL one day later, I think they're going to crash hard soon. For comparison, after 22 games, Portland will have played 11 home games, and 11 road games.
And Utah hasn't really had one of those 5 games in 7 nights stretch. When they win on the road and on one of those; then maybe they are for real. We gotta smash them on Monday. Make a statement!
All Utah can do is try to win the games in front of them. They've done that fairly well. Notably, they won in Denver, the second best team in the West and they destroyed the Clippers. Good for them.
I didn't think that they were going to fall off like some had predicted. They have a lot of size and some good role players to fill various needs. It wouldn't surprise me if they keep up the day that they've been playing.
Theyll fall off, no way they keep winning at there rate, but it might not be a huge drop off. Winning like they did gives a young team a lot of confidance. Wouldnt terribly surprise me if they sneak in at the seven or eight seed but they wont be playing for HC. Sent from my LS670 using Tapatalk
Jazz lost at NO tonight. 14-13 now, and 3-6 since I started this thread after they beat Sacto in Utah, with a very tough schedule ahead. DONE
According to some on here they were a great team just 2 weeks ago. Wonder if this season will have a way of evening everything out?
Who the hell cares about Utah and their schedule? I thought this was a Blazer forum. Guess I'm wrong.
They were ahead of Portland in the standings at the time, getting a lot of run on this very forum, and I saw them crashing soon. It's called predictive analysis for a division rival, and the analysis proved to be correct. Don't like the thread, don't fucking comment on it. It clearly says "OT" in the title. Cat piss in your Cheerios today? There are about 6 pretend GM trades alone of the front page right now. Sorry if I actually wanted to discuss reality involving a division rival, and not make believe trades that have almost no chance of happening.
I don't think I have a cat. I hate cats. Cats are for women and transgenders. And I still don't care about being Utah's forum.
It's unbelievable. We have, arguably, the worst starting PG and 6th man in the NBA and we may make the playoffs.
