NBA Cup – Group West B Schedule

After an intriguing win in San Antonio, we have another possible coping injection looming on sight when the NBA Cup starts tomorrow! The Jazz might not win a lot this season, but IF YOU WIN JUST THE RIGHT GAMES, you might end up with some silverware and Cooper Flagg!

With the news of Chet and KD going out with injuries the group is suddenly wide open for an upset. It's still not probable but hear me out!

  • Tomorrow Phoenix without KD in Utah starting a week long away trip against bigger guns for them: first home W of the season for Jazz
  • Week from now Lakers return from their back-to-back weekend away trip and chill for a couple of days before hosting Utah: they sluggishly drop a game at Staples Center
  • One week from that and Spurs visit the Delta Center: an easy dub, Jazz 3-0 in NBA Cup group stage
  • Last game against OKC and even a tight loss is enough because Jazz is guaranteed to be top 2 in the group and their group gets the wildcard spot thanks to their strong point differential, Jazz goes through to the knockouts!

Here's Kevin Pelton's projection for the group stage which gives Jazz a 6.4% probability to advance to the knockouts. Not too shabby!

2 comments

  1. As a footnote Reddit banned my account of over 10 years for some reason and I haven’t been able to return it despite multiple attempts to contact an admin. Well here’s a fresh one honoring my homeboy then! Go Jazz!

  2. God I hope not , it still goes to overall record so would just be a setback for what the plan is this season (to be very *very* bad)

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