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MHSL82
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Count out, or count on?
I won’t count them out. Not saying great or anything, but “working out.”
Count out, or count on?
What does this comparison mean?
That loss made me post in the worst team in sports thread. It had been a long time since I thought they deserved to be in that thread.and they didn’t show up against Minnesota, but I guess that’s understandable with having a big trade that day.
I think I saw a stat recently that the Jazz are great against bad teams. Probably better than most.When I said that, I would be disappointed if we ended up with 45 wins. I stick by that. But anyway, you told me about how the Indiana Pacers started well and then ended poorly. I was just saying I don’t care about what other teams do. Our failures are going to be ours and I think that our failures may be justified but the thing that made me give up on them was that they couldn’t win games that they’re supposed to. Toronto, they did. But they didn’t beat Atlanta or Dallas without their players, and they didn’t show up against Minnesota, but I guess that’s understandable with having a big trade that day.
Playing poorly the game before because of worries about being traded, too bad. I think the day of when you’re missing players that you would normally use, fine. But I would have liked to have some sort of spark. Minnesota was missing players too.
Before the season started, the expectation was not to win games, at least by people at large. However, I don’t like to expect things like that and I’m starting to expect that. But anyway, what frustrated me this year was that I had no baseline I could count on. It was great to beat teams that we “shouldn’t” beat according to others, but I still want to beat the teams that we “should” and that would be Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, and then tests like Atlanta Hawks and Dallas Mavericks without their star.
I looked around at teams that those bad teams beat and even the best teams lost to those bad teams. However, when I want us to prove something, I want us to not have those games. Pie in the sky, but at least I would like to expect us to win and win most all.
But anyway, you told me about how the Indiana Pacers started well and then ended poorly. I was just saying I don’t care about what other teams do. Our failures are going to be ours
Good win by the Jazzwolves over the Mavericks.
If Minnesota misses the play-in, they'll have the 10th best odds in the draft lottery. They're not going to be bad enough to have the 9th worst record so 9th best odds at the draft lottery.We don’t want Minnesota to win. They have our draft picks. Or I should say, we have their draft picks.
You just said "better is better".Better is better, so we want Minnesota to fail. We have a chance to also get a god pick if we lose (not hoping for by me).
Exactly. So if Gobert wants to make his Hall Of Fame case even stronger, Minnesota needs to be good.Better is better
You just said "better is better".
Why not root for both Minnesota and Utah to fail, so they both have the best draft lottery odds? It's not a pick swap for 2023.
Then hope both teams get #1 and #2, in either order.
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but I don’t root for my team to lose as a general rule.
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The curse of allowing 150 points
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