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‘Just fine’ is the key.

Literally a poster in this thread said 8-4 would be a disappointment. If your framing of Utah’s success is calling 8-4 a disappointment, then you need to recalibrate things.

Utah will be just fine in the sense I believe they’ll be competitive and likely push for a bowl game – probably even make a bowl game.

But I’d…[Read more]

My summer started a week ago with a trip to Chicago to see the Giants play the Cubs at Wrigley. Pretty sweet, spent 2 1/2 hours on an eBike up and down Lakeshore trail and through Grant Park before my pals showed up for the games. Twin Anchors BBQ and too many Old Styles. Was pretty wiped out when I had to work last Thursday but that’s what…[Read more]

Hi UteBacker and thanks for the information. I’ll look into doing something like that during my next trip to Alaska, whenever that is. We’re already signed up for a full day of cruising on the water and I think my family would revolt if we were to do it again in a short time.

We’re on the same page in terms of our distaste for tanking. Totally agree w/ there. You have to be very careful to not build a loser culture. It worked out for OKC and Houston though! So while I hate tanking (and what it stands for), I genuinely think it’s our best chance right now to try and get an MVP-caliber player that could take us back…[Read more]

I don’t get the argument that the NBA is trying to get all the stars in bigger markets. Sure, they probably love when it works out that way, but the average TV market size (ranked among NBA markets) of the lottery winner over the last 20 years is 13.6 (in a league with 28 tv markets). Pretty much in middle, where I’d expect it to fall.

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I could see that. Plan B, “wink, wink,” might be Cam Boozer. His old man suddenly just became a Jazz Scout. They will be angling for a top-two pick, with AJ and Cam likely going 1/2 in 2026. Their market’s current state of not being able to attract any realistic generational type player requires it.

Can you imagine Sloan being told to tank. He would resign. What’s the analytics of the Jazz winning an NBA title? Put the best team on the floor every night and try and win every game. The goal should be to make the playoffs every year and let the chips fall.

It’s crazy because Utah is coming off a 5-7 season where they only won two conference games, lost a significant amount of talent on defense and have an unproven offense.

Yeah, it’s borderline delusional to expect nine regular season wins.

Is it possible? Sure. Anything is theoretically possible but no, I do not believe it should be the…[Read more]

Holladay you make some great points. Obviously management agrees with your takes. Analytics have taken over decision making in all professional sports and even college. When an old school coach like Whitt uses analytics in game situations you know it has to be working.

As a fan and competitor tanking is not in my vocabulary. I can’t imagine p…[Read more]

A buddy and I are headed to Maryland Deathfest next Wednesday. It’s a 4-day extreme metal festival in downtown B-more’s Harbor District. They basically close off an entire street on Thursday through Sunday and have anywhere from 1-3 death metal bands playing at all times from 2pm until 2am each day. Me and around 6,000 of my closest friends…[Read more]

Also, I think the Jazz have sold out like 300+ games in a row? They ranked above average in attendance last year despite being the worst team. I’m a season ticket holder and they raised my prices. They can’t do that if they’re struggling to fill the seats. The following is clearly still very strong. This obviously is likely to change as the…[Read more]

Also, I think the Jazz have sold out like 300+ games in a row? They ranked above average in attendance last year despite being the worst team. I’m a season ticket holder and they raised my prices. They can’t do that if they’re struggling to fill the seats. The following is clearly still very strong. This obviously is likely to change as the…[Read more]

What do you think the odds are of drafting a Hall of Famer at #16? And what do you think the odds are of drafting a two-time MVP at #13? And then what do you think the odds are of drafting a Hall of Famer at #16 in one year and then drafting a two-time MVP at #13 in the very next year? Seriously, tell me what you think it is.

This might help.…[Read more]

Yep and that’s exactly my point! For as bad as Utah was offensively last year, they were in EVERY single game. IF Utah stays healthy at QB, 5 losses wont happen

Considering that Dampier already knows this offense, I expect to be able to catch teams early on our schedule and I also think UCLA will be hot garbage.

We go 3-0 in non conference. I’m not afraid of this team having to play TDS in Provo and I think Whitt will have this team READY to leave Provo with a W.

A lot of newness to this team, but W…[Read more]

Vegas has Utah’s win total at 7.5. 8-4 would be a solid season considering the uncertainty of the last two years.

Fans expecting 9-3 are crazy lol

It’s possible but THAT would be a great season.

lol Utah won two Big 12 games last year.

That only happened once in the Pac-12.

The Big 12 isn’t a gauntlet but Utah also isn’t protected to be all that great.

You can look at the list of #1 picks in the last 10-15 years. Sure, there’s one or two that were big busts, but the vast majority of them were very good NBA players for multiple years (and many of them were all-stars). I’ll admit I don’t know the actual stats, but I’m sure you wouldn’t dispute that a higher draft pick correlates w/ a better NBA…[Read more]