Celtics without Irving, Smart, Theiss, Morris, Horford and still up on the Jazz at Utah. Stevens is one of the best coaches and/or the Jazz are overrated.
Everyone keeps telling me Rockets don't want to see the Utah Jazz in the playoffs. These guys don't scare me. Everyone seems to forget Rockets rolled the Jazz when they were playing thier best ball without Clint. Gobert couldn't take advantage of 6'7 Tarik Black for goodness sake. Utah Jazz can't guard Tatum or Jaylen Brown what hope do they have against Harden, CP, EG or all the other players that can get their shot off on the Rockets roster? I'm glad JVG made it a point to say that the Utah Jazz don't want to see the Houston Rockets in the playoffs.
I also don't get why some fans would want to play Minny over Utah like it is a no-brainier. Minny has KAT, Wiggins, Butler and Teague (Rockets killer always does well against CP3) that have the potential to go off at any moment. Utah has the Rookie, Mitchell. Joe Ingles might get hot from 3. That's it. Utah maybe just a bad match up for GSW, but not for the Rockets.
I'll take either one. We got bigger fish to fry than some random 8th seeded team. None of them go more than 5 games IMO