Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

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[QUOTE]The Jazz starting line-up of Burke, Hayward, Jefferson, Marvin and Favors have played 526 minutes together. In those 526 minutes the Jazz offensive rating is 107.2 and defensive rating is 106.4. A positive .8 which is very impressive for a team that is 20 games below .500.

If you take Favors out of the line-up and put in Kanter with the same other 4 the offense drops to 103.1 and the defense drops to 113.9 for a -10.8 in 141 minutes.

Despite Derrick

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[QUOTE]The Jazz starting lineup this year of Trey Burke, Richard Jefferson, Gordon Hayward, Marvin Williams and Derrick Favors has been positive over 520 minutes on the floor. This is really surprising for a team that is 22-43. This lineup

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[QUOTE]Clippers coach Doc Rivers wasn

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[QUOTE]Simple Offensive Systems:

Corbin starts off with a win here, though it isn

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[QUOTE]Williams has been dealing with a strained lower back and had an MRI test rescheduled from Thursday to Friday morning. Because the team didn

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[QUOTE]With their size similarity because they play the same position, Burke has long admired Paul

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Centers:

It is obvious why Jazz fans love their big man, Derrick Favors. He comes to play every night and shows no fear regardless of who is on the other side of the ball. Favors scored 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds, just one shy of a double-double. It is safe to say that Favors is building a strong brand for himself in the league as one of its younger up-and-coming stars.

Grade: B+

Every night? Up and coming star?

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Williams traveled with the Jazz and will be a game-time decision tonight against the Spurs at AT&T Center.

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[QUOTE]The Jazz have been out of the playoff picture for a while.

But now it

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Eric Pincus: Lakers won't catch Bucks/Sixers - so teams are ORL/BOS/UTA/SAC/LAL for 3-7 heading into lottery Twitter @EricPincus

Looking like 3-7

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Maybe the biggest thing we learned is how much better this team is if it can play with some pace. It has to defend and get stops and force turnovers to get that pace, but when these guys are able to get in the open floor, the best of their talents show up. Trey Burke showed a flash of speed I didn

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http://basketball.realgm.com/article...eague-MVP-Race

[QUOTE]3. (-) Ante Tomic - FC Barcelona (10-0)

12.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.3 assists in 24 minutes.

First of all, let me remind you that at the beginning of the Top 16 Ante Tomic was nowhere close to this position. Tomic averaged 5.6 points and 3.6 rebounds in January and couldn

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Fourteen non-playoff teams qualify for the annual draft lottery, which will take place May 20. Here are the odds for the top three picks* (with the worst record having the greatest odds and so on):

25.0/21.5/17.8
19.9/18.8/17.1
15.6/15.7/15.6
11.9/12.6/13.3
8.8/9.7/10.7
6.3/7.1/8.1
4.3/4.9/5.8
2.8/3.3/3.9
1.7/2.0/2.4
1.1/1.3/1.6
0.8/0.9/1.2
0.7/0.8/1.0
0.6/0.7/0.9
0.5/0.6/0.7

*Teams can only fall three spots, meaning the worst the No. 1 team could end up with is the No. 4 pick.

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Odds aren't that great. Jazz are certainly due as far as getting lucky in the lottery.

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[QUOTE]The Jazz will honor members of the organization