Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

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[QUOTE] the Utah Jazz will participate in the NBA

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The Utah Jazz will have two first-round picks, one that will probably land in the top 10.

Almost a certainty now. Will they finally get their next franchise player is the question?

[QUOTE]In July, Jazz fans will be able to watch them in person.

Instead of traveling to Orlando, Utah will now play its summer-league games in Las Vegas, General Manager Dennis Lindsey told The Tribune. This represents a significant change in thinking. When the Rocky Mountain Revue folded in 2008, Jazz brass vowed not to play in Vegas, blaming its emergence for the RMR

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[QUOTE]His jump shot helped make him a high school star here. It helped land him the scholarship and, eventually, a spot on an NBA roster.

But as Ian Clark returned to his hometown this week, searching for minutes with the Utah Jazz, the rookie guard knows he needs to improve on the part of his game that

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4. Utah Jazz

Record: 22-47

Last 10: 1-9

Chance of landing a top-three pick: 37.8%

Chance of landing the No. 1 pick: 11.9%

Need to know: The Jazz have five games remaining against bottom 10 teams this year. The Pistons also have five such games on their schedule. No other bottom 10 team has more than four.

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[QUOTE]Marvin Williams was hurt and Enes Kanter started last Friday against the Los Angeles Clippers. Although the team wasn

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Trey was 2 for 12 going into the final 5 minutes of the game and he went 3 for 3 in the final 5 minutes of the game. The kid is crazy clutch. In the final 5 minutes of games this season he has been unreal. He has hit 30 of 57 from the field and 15 of 26 from 3 plus 100% from the free throw line. The most amazing part of this to me is he does this off games where he is not playing well and making the shots.

Tryone Corbin managed the final portion of the game perfectly. Corbin and Hayward talked as Arron Afflalo was at the line and got what they wanted and then when they stopped the game for a moment Corbin brought the team together for a quick explanation of what they wanted and they got it done. Also the Jazz played for 2 when they should and lengthen the game eventually getting the missed free throw.

Richard Jefferson was awesome in the 1st quarter with 17 points. Must have been fun for him to go back in time.

Let

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But is the win a good thing?

For fans of a team that’s at the bottom of the Western Conference, this becomes the difficult question to answer. Let’s break down the pros and cons:

Pros:

The win probably keeps the team engaged for the remaining 12 games. We don’t know that the Jazz would have turned off had they gone on a losing slide at the end of the year, but it seems possible to likely that they would have. That’s 12 games of lost development.

Winning is more fun. This sounds like a small thing, but Hayward said that tonight’s game was fun! That’s a good thing from a player who has said that playing basketball has seemed “like a job” at times this year. This might mean more practice time, which means developing skills for the players.

It creates more camraderie within the team. Everyone was legitimately excited for Trey Burke’s three, bringing the team together on and off the court. For a team without a leading voice, the collective working together really could help later on (especially defensively).

Cons:

It’s now probably impossible for the Jazz to become the third-worst team in the league. Before the game, Orlando was only 3 games back of Utah. A Magic win would have brought the Magic to within 2 games, with the possibility of another win against the Lakers tomorrow. Now, with a 4 game deficit, the Magic position is probably safe. The 3rd worst team has a 46.9% chance at a top 3 pick, while the 4th worst team has a 37.8% chance.

The Lakers now have one fewer win than the Jazz, though are technically tied due to their one fewer loss. This win pushes the Jazz into a three-way tie for 4th, making it more likely the Jazz finish with the league’s 6th worst record, which only has a 21.5% chance at a top 3 pick.

It probably also makes it somewhat less likely that Jazz youngsters and friends Ian Clark and Rudy Gobert see minutes moving forward. Tonight, the Jazz used an 8 man rotation, completely eschewing Jeremy Evans, Clark, Gobert, Brandon Rush, and Malcolm Thomas in favor of Marvin Williams, Diante Garrett, and John Lucas III. A win probably makes it less likely that Corbin will turn to the young bench players for relief, instead seeking the “magic” of tonight’s win.

Evans deserves to lay. **** Marvin! Clark, Gobert and Thomas could be in the Dleague.

So… was a win worth it? You decide.

3. The Jazz is a better team than the Magic are.

That sentence above uses each team’s preferred grammatical plurality. That is to say, the Jazz’s PR department says that the Jazz are correctly referred to as a singular entity, while the Magic believe themselves to be a plural collection of players2. There’s some evidence for both sides’ opinion (see this article, for example), but ultimately it seems as if most media entities have agreed to go with referring to the Jazz in the plural. This means some out-of-place looking statements from the official Jazz accounts when using the singular. That being said, the singular/plural debate is apparently one of intense debate inside Jazz offices.

Salt City Hoops has chosen to align with other media sources, referring to the Jazz in the plural. This is largely because it seems more natural to me, and I would be terrible at editing it in the opposite direction.

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[QUOTE]Coach Ty Corbin said as much Saturday night. He doesn

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[QUOTE]it was that Rich Kelley, Thurl Bailey and Jerry Eaves joined Griffith, Eaton and coaches Frank Layden and Phil Johnson in Saturday

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[QUOTE]Layden, who was also the general manager at the time, fondly recalled how things came together for that special season.

He had saved Green from Billings, Mont., and the CBA a couple of years before only to enjoy

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Player development coaches Alex Jensen and Johnnie Bryant work with players every day before practice, and Sunday was no different.

Well, except the part where Jensen left the court with a bloodied nose.

While working with the big men, Jensen got popped in the nose on accident by Kanter. The coach left momentarily, got the bleeding to stop by stuffing tissue in his nose, and returned after joking about getting revenge.

A smiling Kanter met the returning Jensen at half court and embraced him with a friendly hug before they got back to work. Told about it, Corbin joked that physical play is what he likes to see from his big men.

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Might be the other way around in workouts with the Mailman.

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[QUOTE]Even though 12 games remain in his rookie campaign, Burke has already begun to map out a plan for his summer work.

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Noah Vonleh will leave Indiana to declare for the 2014 NBA Draft.

"It's going to suck leaving college without an NCAA Tournament," Vonleh said. "But I have to do what's best for me."

"I've heard the fourth pick to the 12th pick is wide open," Vonleh said. "[I think I'll be selected] anywhere in that range."

DraftExpress.com has Vonleh going seventh overall.

Vonleh averaged 11.3 points and 9.0 rebounds for the Hoosiers.

Looks like he'll be a guy the Jazz will be working out. Sounds a bit like Favors with range. The stretch big to replace Marvin? 7'4" wingspan. rebounds.

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North Carolina State sophomore T.J. Warren has decided to enter the June NBA draft, sources told Yahoo Sports. Warren reached the decision with his family on Sunday and had been expected to inform the N.C. State coaching staff of his decision early this week, sources told Yahoo Sports. A formal announcement is expected to come soon. Warren, a 6-foot-8 forward, had 28 points in N.C. State's NCAA tournament loss to Saint Louis last week. He's considered one of the best pure scorers in the draft class, averaging 24.9 points and shooting 52 percent from the floor.

Yahoo! Sports

Sounds like someone they could look at too though he's at 18 on draft express in between where the Jazz will pick at the moment. They need shooting and he's another stretch 4 candiate though he didn't shoot very good from 3.

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Saric hasn't officially announced anything, but multiple sources say that he has an agreement in principle with Efes Pilson that will pay him $8.27 million over the next three years. There's no word yet on what the NBA buyout looks like, but he for sure won't be able to come to the NBA next season and sources say it's highly unlikely he'll even declare for this year's draft.

ESPN.com

Looks like he might be off the radar. Wouldn't he make more than that as a top 10 pick?