"You Gotta Love It Baby" Official Jazz thread

[Blueintheface]

A very fun team to watch. I saw that cap number for 16-17 and it made me very happy.

[smokymountainrain]

What a luxury to have Hood the way he is playing right now. I think most Jazz fans were very happy with picking him in the draft and he seems to be coming into his own. To have that second wing scorer on such a dominant defensive team makes the Jazz very dangerous. It also allows the Jazz to focus on finding a 4th big man or legit PG to rotate with Exum in the off season after they figure out a way to dump Burke.

At worst, Gobert is a star for the next several years and could potentially be a legit superstar within the next couple years. I'd say there are less than 10 guys in the league I would trade Gobert for at this point.

[Sizzle]

Advanced metrics are fun. Here are some fun numbers as it pertains to the Jazz:

Overall PER:
Favors is 12th
Gobert is 17th
Hayward is 33rd

Among position ranks by PER:
Gobert is 5th for Cs
Favors is 4th for PFs
Hayward is 5 for SFs

No other team has more than 1 player in their front court in the top 5 of PER. The Jazz have a top 5 player at each front court position.

In terms of estimated wins added, here are the ranks:
1) Harden
2) A. Davis
3) Curry
4) Lebron
5) CP3
6) Westbrook
7) M. Gasol
8) Kyrie
9) P. Gasol
10) Jimmy Butler
11) Vucevic
11) Cousins
11) DeAndre Jordan
14) Lillard
15) Hayward
16) Wall
17) Griddin
18) Aldridge
18) Horford
18) Favors
21) Klay Thompson
22) Drummond
23) Teague
24) Gay
25) Chandler
25) Bledsoe
27) Ty Lawson
27) Greg Monroe
29) Kyle Lowry
30) Tim Duncan
31) Rudy Gobert
31) Kevin Love
33) Paul Millsap
33) Dwayne Wade
35) Al Jefferson

Two players in the top 20 in EWA, with a 3rd outside at 31. What this also tells me is that Favors/Hayward/Gobert have been SPECTACULAR given the struggles of Trey/Dante and the absence of Burks.

[smokymountainrain]

Advanced metrics are fun. Here are some fun numbers as it pertains to the Jazz:

Overall PER:
Favors is 12th
Gobert is 17th
Hayward is 33rd

Among position ranks by PER:
Gobert is 5th for Cs
Favors is 4th for PFs
Hayward is 5 for SFs

No other team has more than 1 player in their front court in the top 5 of PER. The Jazz have a top 5 player at each front court position.

In terms of estimated wins added, here are the ranks:
1) Harden
2) A. Davis
3) Curry
4) Lebron
5) CP3
6) Westbrook
7) M. Gasol
8) Kyrie
9) P. Gasol
10) Jimmy Butler
11) Vucevic
11) Cousins
11) DeAndre Jordan
14) Lillard
15) Hayward
16) Wall
17) Griddin
18) Aldridge
18) Horford
18) Favors
21) Klay Thompson
22) Drummond
23) Teague
24) Gay
25) Chandler
25) Bledsoe
27) Ty Lawson
27) Greg Monroe
29) Kyle Lowry
30) Tim Duncan
31) Rudy Gobert
31) Kevin Love
33) Paul Millsap
33) Dwayne Wade
35) Al Jefferson

Two players in the top 20 in EWA, with a 3rd outside at 31. What this also tells me is that Favors/Hayward/Gobert have been SPECTACULAR given the struggles of Trey/Dante and the absence of Burks.

Yeah, it explains how the Jazz have been the best in the west since the all star break.

[Blueintheface]

Having a hard time scoring but watching this team play defense is pretty fun. True defense doesn't have to mean putting the opposition to the line 40 times and defending the 3-pt line, as it turns out, is legal. Who knew.

[scottie]

Tonight KSL said BYU's starting 5 is one year older than the Jazz's starting 5.

[Sizzle]

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That about sums up the first half for the Jazz so far...

[old_gregg]

lol @ charlotte

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I think there's a chance that the Jazz catch OKC in the standings, but they won't catch New Orleans.

[falafel]

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[fusnik]

Exum wants nothing to do with the ball on offense.

He brings up the ball, passes to a wing, makes a weak cut and floats to a corner.

[smokymountainrain]

Exum wants nothing to do with the ball on offense.

He brings up the ball, passes to a wing, makes a weak cut and floats to a corner.

Yep. It's almost comical to watch. I don't know that I've ever seen anything like it in the NBA. Even the worst players generally try to compete.

[Blueintheface]

Too high of a draft pick to guess on. Exum is useless.

[SandYFan]

Too high of a draft pick to guess on. Exum is useless.

He's a really good on-the-ball defender. So maybe not entirely useless.

[Blueintheface]

Yeah, he's completely useless.