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Last season the Utah Jazz narrowly avoided tying a four decade old record for in-season futility, and they needed a double overtime game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on the last night of the regular season in order to avoid it. This time around, most Jazz fans felt like a 25 win season would be completely out of the question. However, a 9 game losing streak put a damper on that.Shortly after major rotation players began to fall ill. Still, though, the Quin Snyder era has many positives so far, and at the end of the day, they are winning at a higher rate than last season.
The Jazz flat-lined early, but are on the rise now, even without Alec Burks, Enes Kanter, and Rodney Hood. The last two guys will play again this season (Enes is questionable for tonight, last I checked), and the team will continue to play better with more experience.
Gordon Hayward today is better than he was a year ago. And the same goes for almost all of our returning players. And the defense looks much better with Rudy Gobert playing vs. not playing. All-in-all, I'm not going to get too hung up on wins this year; for me it's how they play that matters. And last night in Oklahoma City it shows that they are playing much better than they had been playing over the previous seasons in recent memory.
But that's what I think. What do you think? How many games will the Jazz win this season?