With everyone at full health, who wins this head-to-head matchup?
1992 Cavaliers
PG: Mark Price
SG: Craig Ehlo
SF: Mike Sanders
PF: Larry Nance, Sr.
C: Brad Daugherty
1992 Jazz
PG: John Stockton
SG: Jeff Malone
SF: David Benoit
PF: Karl Malone
C: Mark Eaton
Starters Only: 1992 Cavaliers vs 1992 Jazz
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Starters Only: 1992 Cavaliers vs 1992 Jazz
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Nice comparison and two very good teams at the time.
Utah, with the two best players, Stockton and Malone, and Eaton not at his best but still effective defensively, were a little better. Nance is a very underrated and forgotten player and Daugherty as well but think the Jazz were better and functioned better together. That Cavs lineup was decimated with injuries but without that they would have been real contenders every season to at least 1995.
Utah, with the two best players, Stockton and Malone, and Eaton not at his best but still effective defensively, were a little better. Nance is a very underrated and forgotten player and Daugherty as well but think the Jazz were better and functioned better together. That Cavs lineup was decimated with injuries but without that they would have been real contenders every season to at least 1995.
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Initial thought was Cavs.
Cavs, when healthy were fringe contenders or better at the time, Utah's strong year somewhat more of an outlier for that time. Three very good starters. "Hot Rod" is a significant loss still. Ehlo an acceptable role player.
And Sanders as "not really a starter" as he generally was ... if we're going off that tiny RS, with Cavs sample (21 games) ... was actually okay (whereas Winston Bennett the main "starter" [45 games] ... 6.3 PER, .019 WS/48, -6.5 BPM ... not so much). So Kerr and Hot Rod on the bench hurt but there's a sense in which their starters get an upgrade over their RS average.
I suppose the Jazz are helped in that they don't have a starter caliber, starter-minutes guy on the bench ... their goodness is mainly concentrated in two players. I prefer Corbin's defense and hustle and probably basketball smarts over Benoit and Murdock wasn't bad, but there isn't a loss like Hot Rod.
Cavs, when healthy were fringe contenders or better at the time, Utah's strong year somewhat more of an outlier for that time. Three very good starters. "Hot Rod" is a significant loss still. Ehlo an acceptable role player.
And Sanders as "not really a starter" as he generally was ... if we're going off that tiny RS, with Cavs sample (21 games) ... was actually okay (whereas Winston Bennett the main "starter" [45 games] ... 6.3 PER, .019 WS/48, -6.5 BPM ... not so much). So Kerr and Hot Rod on the bench hurt but there's a sense in which their starters get an upgrade over their RS average.
I suppose the Jazz are helped in that they don't have a starter caliber, starter-minutes guy on the bench ... their goodness is mainly concentrated in two players. I prefer Corbin's defense and hustle and probably basketball smarts over Benoit and Murdock wasn't bad, but there isn't a loss like Hot Rod.