The Jazz Are Supposed To Be Tanking. Instead, They're Winning Big
The Lead
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🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
All throughout the offseason, and even into the start of this season, we thought we knew what the Utah Jazz were supposed to be. This team was supposed to be tanking, one of the many hoping to land generational prospect Victor Wembanyama. But so far this year, the Jazz are doing basically the exact opposite of tanking. Today, The Athletic's Tony Jones tells us how the Jazz have put together the best record in the Western Conference, the first-year head coach who’s younger than his starting point guard, and whether all this winning could actually be bad for the Jazz.
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| 0:41.0 | All throughout the off season and even to the start of this season, |
| 0:45.0 | we thought we knew what the Utah Jazz were supposed to be. |
| 0:49.0 | This team was supposed to be tanking. |
| 0:52.0 | The tanking, the Utah Jazz have already started, right? |
| 0:56.0 | That began with treating vertical bear and getting rid of Donovan Mitchell. |
| 0:59.0 | And here's to all the time. |
| 1:00.0 | The L Club for Vita, which if you guys don't know, |
| 1:02.0 | you heard it here first. It's the losing club for Victor Webbingamas. |
| 1:06.0 | Yes, you did. You are the Utah Jazz. You are a smaller market team, right? |
| 1:10.0 | Yes, you have a lot of picks, but there's one pick that matters. |
| 1:12.0 | It's how high you are in the draft this year. That's the only pick that matter. |
| 1:16.0 | But so far this year, as you may have guessed, |
| 1:20.0 | the Jazz are doing pretty much the opposite of tanking. They're thriving. |
| 1:25.0 | The Jazz! Pull this game out and over time! |
| 1:29.0 | It's me, I'm real, shocker. |
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