Hello Brooklyn wrote:jazzfan1971 wrote:I think the Jazz are clearly a better team than then Clippers when Griffin is injured and the Jazz are healthy. If you watched game 5 you 'd have seen that with your own eyes. Teh Jazz were clearly the better team, even if they were bricking tons of open looks. But, the deal is that they got TONS of open looks to brick. And they still won the game even though the Clippers had a huge advantage in free throw attempts.
When both teams are healthy I think it's pretty even. Clippers a little stronger starting 5, Jazz a stronger bench. But, with Griffin sitting, it's clearly advantage Jazz.
If that's really the case then that's pretty sad for a team lead by two players who were both considered top 10 and another all-star along with an "elite coach."
The Jazz are a young up and coming team. But Gobert just came on to the scene as a premiere player and Hayward just became an all-star for the first time.
There is no way you can justify the Clippers breaking even with them. It has to be seen as a massive failure.
When was Blake last considered a top 10 guy, maybe 2-3 years ago? Right now they have one top 10 player in CP3, and some would argue he's just outside that scope right now, and I think Gobert has proven he's a top 10 player in terms of impact, so I'd consider him a top 10 player in the league.
Hayward IMO is better than Blake, and I would put Hayward in that 15-20, and I'd put Blake in that range when healthy but he's unreliable, I definitely have him a few slots behind Hayward. DJ is not really an All-Star, who in their right mind would take him over Gobert, Jokic, Cousins, Gasol, Towns, and I think Nurkic is passing him too. In a 7 game series DJ can be exposed offensively (great FG% around the rim, but foul him and he's toast, defend strongly the pick and roll w/ him), he has poor defensive awareness, and doesn't box out that well for his size.
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