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Originally Posted by nushiof
The Jazz have the 5th most regular season wins of all NBA teams since 2000 behind, spurs, Mavs, heat, and Celtics. Even more than the Lakers!! I wish they had gone further in the playoffs but they have been punching way above their weight for a good 3 decades now. Hopefully the Ainge rebuild will get us another good run at a championship.
I don’t think MLB would have any negative impact on the Jazz. If anything it probably just improves perceptions of the SLC market in general as more of a legitimate city.
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This really hammers home my point. The Jazz, for all their regular season success, have nothing to show for it.
You're right. Since 2000, Utah has the fifth most wins of any NBA team.
Guess how many teams have more playoff series wins over that same stretch, though?
15 teams.
That discrepancy is really embarrassing.
The Jazz have always been good at just being okay and rarely any better since the last century ended.
Since 2000, here's the Jazz' finish each year in the Western Conference:
2000: 2nd
2001: 4th
2002: 8th
2003: 7th
2004: 9th
2005: 14th
2006: 9th
2007: 5th*
2008: 5th*
2009: 6th
2010: 5th
2011: 11th
2012: 8th
2013: 9th
2014: 15th
2015: 11th
2016: 9th
2017: 5th
2018: 5th
2019: 5th
2020: 6th
2021: 1st
2022: 5th
2007 & 2008 I put as fifth because Utah had the fifth-best record in the West that year but received the 4th seed technically because they won the Northwest (despite still not getting home court in either of those series).
Since 2000, Utah has finished in the top-three of the West just twice: 2000 and 2021. Both years, they were unceremoniously bounced in the second-round.
Lots of finishing right in the middle of the NBA playoff bracket.
Only Sacramento, Minnesota and New Orleans have a longer Conference Finals drought than the Jazz - and I could see the Kings breaking that drought this year.
Utah, for all their season accolades, is a pretty pitiful playoff team and that's where things matter.
Who cares if Utah wins 50 gams and finishes 5th if they're going to just get bounced in the first-round anyway? It is complacency that allows the franchise to stick with fairly mediocre results for as long as they have.