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Utah Jazz are not immune to altitude sickness

Graphing the last 40 games in Denver

By AllThatAmar
"MY LUNGS! THE BURNING! IT'S SO HIGH HERE! AAAAAAAHHHAAAAAHHAAAAAA"
"MY LUNGS! THE BURNING! IT'S SO HIGH HERE! AAAAAAAHHHAAAAAHHAAAAAA"
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As mentioned earlier today the Utah Jazz are 33-54 All-time when playing against the Denver Nuggets in Denver. Over the last 40 games there they've been a little better, going 17-23. That's way closer to .500, but still pretty far off. Utah has an altitude, but Denver is a little bit higher. (Make your own Klay Thompson / Larry Sanders joke here) Since November of 1995 till the present day our guys have won big and lost big in their gym. This is what it looks like:

M D Year UTA DEN +/- M D Year UTA DEN +/-
1 11 25 1995 91 94 -3 21 3 29 2006 114 104 10
2 2 24 1996 90 99 -9 22 1 6 2007 96 84 12
3 12 7 1996 104 91 13 23 2 23 2007 114 104 10
4 3 23 1997 120 103 17 24 1 17 2008 109 120 -11
5 11 7 1997 91 89 2 25 2 6 2008 118 115 3
6 12 30 1997 132 99 33 26 1 25 2009 97 117 -20
7 2 24 1999 87 97 -10 27 4 2 2009 104 114 -10
8 4 1 2000 92 112 -20 28 10 28 2009 105 114 -9
9 4 18 2000 104 105 -1 29 1 17 2010 112 119 -7
10 1 5 2001 97 100 -3 30 4 17 2010 113 126 -13
11 1 29 2001 97 91 6 31 4 19 2010 114 111 3
12 2 20 2002 110 99 11 32 4 28 2010 102 116 -14
13 4 2 2002 90 98 -8 33 10 27 2010 88 110 -22
14 11 20 2002 96 79 17 34 2 4 2011 113 106 7
15 1 15 2003 92 81 11 35 12 28 2011 100 117 -17
16 1 9 2004 96 106 -10 36 1 15 2012 106 96 10
17 3 14 2004 75 102 -27 37 11 9 2012 84 104 -20
18 11 6 2004 106 82 24 38 1 5 2013 91 110 -19
19 2 8 2005 87 97 -10 39 12 13 2013 103 93 10
20 1 20 2006 83 113 -30 40 4 12 2014 94 101 -7

2014 2015 Game 057 UTA at DEN - Last 40 In Denver

What do we learn from this? Well, we learn that the good old days of having John Stockton, Karl Malone, and Jeff Hornacek meant that the team was a little more capable on the road. The Deron Williams / Carlos Boozer / Mehmet Okur / Andrei Kirilenko era had some good fights in this gym, and who could ever forget "[Kyrylo] Fesenko . . . Fesenko . . . Fesenko?"

The Jazz last five games in this gym went +10, -20, -19, +10, and -7. What's your final score prediction for tonight?

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