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Moving on, moving on.

Let us go out to a team that has surprised me absolutely the most.

What kinds of odds do you think we could have gotten before the season?

If you said at the end of week one, the Utah Jazz would have the best record in the West

and would be one of four undefeated teams.

I'd say pretty good odds.

Vegas would give you that pretty easily.

People in Salt Lake City would say you were, I don't know, dipping too much into the

devil's elixir, aka coffee, you know, caffeinated solas.

But here we are, a team that blew up their roster in the offseason

declared to the world that they were front runners to land Victor Wenbiyama,

to brick for Vic, to play like shit for Vic.

And boom, veterans, rookies alike, all decided to blow that shit up

and just absolutely ball out to start to finish for the first

three games beating not one not two but three playoff teams out of the blocks

Minnesota New Orleans and Denver they made Denver look abysmal to the point where I was like

oh god Denver might be actually bad.

They came back from 20 to beat the wolves in OT.

You didn't even have to do that.

All you had to do is go to OT.

You could have lost.

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