Welcome on to our biweekly look at the Western Conference and we're going to start at the

bottom of the alphabet.

Let's see how much we get through because I am on three hours of sleep right now so we

may have to save some of these teams still tomorrow.

But I think at least overall we're spending more time on each of these teams so hopefully

you don't feel like we're short-changing you by doing some of these on Mondays.

I think we're doing spending more overall time on these than we were particularly at this

early point in the season when there is so much to discuss with these teams and one of

the teams that has been the talk of the NBA is the Utah Jets.

For sure and the Jets are on the season 10 and 5, 5 and 3, since the last 15 and 60.

They are 6 still in net rating plus 3.5 per 100 possessions per cleaning the glass which

was out garbage time.

Third in offense, talk about that in a sec, 20th in defense and a disparity, not a huge

surprise considering they are one of the biggest surprises in the league.

Raptor projects the jazz to finish with 47 wins, Elow with 51 and thus Raptor gives

them a lower chance of making the playoffs still 82% and remember making the playoffs for

this, these are the 538 Raptor and Elow models.

It's to make the eight team Western Conference best of seven.

It's not to make the play in, it's to make the play offs and Elow 92% where I wanted to

start as just kind of a conceptual thing which is you know last week we talked about the

great work that Christian R Sue has done in terms of how many games you need to pass the

R squared sample of about 0.5 which is basically when half of what eventually the results are

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