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No talk about this yet, WTF GUYS?

http://www.nba.com/jazz/news/200910_Jaz ... unced.html

Good write up, tells you who we're only playing three times, and breaks down the back to backs. I don't remember a write-up like that in the past seasons, I had to figure that stuff out for myself. 13 National TV games is a shocker, I think we had 11 scheduled the last two seasons (but the changed during the season), and after last seasons debacle I didn't expect to get that many. Plus eight more on NBA TV.

I'll probably make it to the games in Philly, NY, NJ, and DC.

Unfortunately they put Phoenix on TV 17 times.

I always seems that we have the harder team on the second night of back to backs.

New Years Eve in OKC. Quality.

19 back-to-back games...Holy ****.......The Jazz need to just start scheduling home games on Sunday ...this is ridiculous.

If the Jazz go through another season of losing on the second night of a back to back and losing to basically every other NON playoff team I'm gonna be so pissed. Last two years our MO has been get up at home for the contenders, lose to the Pacers/Nets/Wolves the next night.

tylero87 wrote:19 back-to-back games...Holy ****.......The Jazz need to just start scheduling home games on Sunday ...this is ridiculous.

If the Jazz go through another season of losing on the second night of a back to back and losing to basically every other NON playoff team I'm gonna be so pissed. Last two years our MO has been get up at home for the contenders, lose to the Pacers/Nets/Wolves the next night.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-4 ... edule.html

actually the jazz have fewer compared to many teams

tylero87 wrote:19 back-to-back games...Holy ****.......The Jazz need to just start scheduling home games on Sunday ...this is ridiculous.

If the Jazz go through another season of losing on the second night of a back to back and losing to basically every other NON playoff team I'm gonna be so pissed. Last two years our MO has been get up at home for the contenders, lose to the Pacers/Nets/Wolves the next night.

That is fewer than we had last year and fewer than most teams in the NBA. Utah also has 23 games against teams that are in their 2nd game of a back-to-back, compare to Portland who has just 14. Utah's schedule in March and April is absolute cake this year and throughout the season most of the games against tough teams are stretched out. We couldn't have asked for an easier schedule.

Jazz certainly ended up with a nice schedule relative to the last few years.

tylero87 wrote:19 back-to-back games...Holy ****.......The Jazz need to just start scheduling home games on Sunday ...this is ridiculous.

If the Jazz go through another season of losing on the second night of a back to back and losing to basically every other NON playoff team I'm gonna be so pissed. Last two years our MO has been get up at home for the contenders, lose to the Pacers/Nets/Wolves the next night.

Jazz have less b to b games than 22 teams.

Better schedule then last year. Also I like all the nationally televised games.

It does suck however that the teams the Jazz only play three times are Dallas, Sacramento, Golden State and Memphis.

Memphis and Sacto could be the worst two teams in the league next season, so losing out an extra game on each of them is tough. That's almost two guaranteed W's. Golden State also doesn't look extremely promising, even if they whopped the Jazz last year in Utah.

Minnesota faces us 3 times on their 2nd night of a b2b. Utah better win those games. There are 2 away/home games and 1 away/away sets for them.


Teams that face us twice on their 2nd night of a b2b:

Memphis- 2 away/away
Phoenix- 1 away/home, 1 home/away
New Jersey- 1 away/home, 1 away/away
LA Clippers- 1 away/home, 1 home/away
Houston- 1 away/home, 1 home/away


Teams that face us once on their 2nd night of a b2b:

Atlanta- away/away
Dallas- away/home
Denver- away/away
Lakers- home/away
Miami- away/away
Milwaulkee- away/away
Portland- home/away
San Antonio- away/home
Toronto- away/away
Washington- away/home

Note: Sacramento has the honor of playing all 3 games against Utah on 2 days rest.

So, that's 14 games Utah has at home with an opponent on the 2nd night of a road b2b. Also, of major significance is that only 8 of our final 26 games of the year are against teams that made the playoffs last year, with 2 of those games against a Houston team that is not expected to make the postseason this year. It looks like the NBA might be trying to make up for that horrific schedule they gave us last year. One thing's for sure, we can make no excuses this year in regards to the scheduling. It's as easy as it gets.

We seem to have a very favorable schedule this year.
Did anyone take a look at the Knicks schedule? It seems they only have 18 back to backs. Too lazy to break down the rest of their schedule.