The Most Confusing Teams in the NBA!

LoweAnd he's looked great in the preseason too. You know, I'm with you in general, though. Like they were in a couple of my picks are clustered in this spot.

LoweThey were my number one pick in the if some incumbent team from the West top six just inexplicably falls out of the top six. Yeah, who would replace them? And you get into like the Portland, Phoenix, Utah.

LoweAre you optimistic about Dallas or Memphis or whatever kind of morass of teams? And Utah was my if I had to pick one of those teams, I just kind of like the upside of this team. I think Will Hardy is a really great offensive coach who's going to have, like, you give him these bigs who can shoot, who can come off pin downs, who can do stuff off the dribble, who can play a little bit like guards, not pass

Lowelike guards, but play like guards. I just think he's going to figure out ways to have this team score at a pretty high level. So I guess the confusion, what is the source of confusion? Like, are we underestimating them? Is there a doubt? Is there like a more severe downside here than you and

MahoneyI are maybe envisioning? I think I'm just, I'm seeing, well, I think there's both.

MahoneyOn paper, the talent to me says this team should be pretty good. And yet I'm not sure that they ultimately will be. I think the passing, which you and I have talked about before could potentially be part of it. The fact that this team does have so many guys who play like guards also kind of bears out in the rebounding.

MahoneyLike the Jazz strike me as the kind of team where it's like, are they a referendum on the concept of rebounding? because none of these guys are above average rebounders for their position. Will that matter? Is there enough like connective tissue here in terms of the undergirding of what makes a good basketball team to make the jazz actually good?