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It is locked on jazz for the 25th of January. The injuries are loading up. How concerned should we be? Plus the young depth gets a chance to play. Can we use it moving forward? Who wins the West? Is Phoenix really the favorite? Plus do they have anything we want? Part two. What about Gordon Hayward?

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Let me just big picture after last night's loss. The Utah Jazz will not be the number one seed in the Western conference again this season.

Okay. So that's clear. We're not going to be the number one seed again.

We're eight games behind the Phoenix Suns. They're rolling. We're not going to catch where they've lost nine games in the first half of the year. We're not going to catch them.

So now the game really probably is as simple as not being the seventh seed.

And we're six games ahead of the Minnesota Timberwolves and six and a half games ahead of the LA Lakers.

But that is really where our focus has to be at this point in time. We're not going to be the number one seed.

We're truly just trying to survive and get better. And frankly, we're good enough on the road at 15 and nine. We're 15 and nine at home.

And ideally, you do start your first playoff series at home. I think it actually, you know, there's other things that can drive the importance of this.

And we're just, you know, there's no way we're catching Phoenix last night. And if we had pulled off a miracle, got it to six and then beat them again tomorrow and got it to five.

We're going to start to maybe talk about that as a concept. But the idea that we could be the number one seed is over.

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