Our life consists of little victories and failures. And there is no way to say that something is truly bad unless you’ve experienced something extremely great. Everything is learned by comparison to past experiences. So to know that your team is truly a contender, you need to have played for either a contender or a champion.
For as much as online bookies will create odds as to who they think is going to be the next championship team or contender, unless they are relying on inside information or players true feelings about their team’s chances, people would be better off spending their money with online pokies pulling slot machine handles. Your odds would be better than following that of the advice from an online sportsbook.
After being traded to the Utah Jazz this summer, Boris Diaw had a chance to draw on his past experiences as an NBA champion and many times a contender with the Spurs, to determine his new team’s chances. The Utah Jazz and the San Antonio Spurs. Diaw seems to think that the new look Jazz have a lot of similarities to his championship Spurs team from 2014. While the comparison seems crazy at first given the Jazz are young and the Spurs were generally considered old saavy veterans. If you listen carefully Boris Diaw is more referring to the similarities in staff and coaching philosophies.
Not only are multiple members of the Jazz staff having gone through the Spurs organization at some point to cut their teeth, they brought with them systems and philosophies for a team first approach to basketball. Diaw believes that the main parallel should be drawn regarding the philosophy.
Coach Snyder and Coach Popovich have rather similar traits in the way they deal with players, although Quin Snyder has his own approach to the game, admits Diaw.
Diaw believes that in general, the Jazz and the Spurs are alike concerning the philosophy, but slightly different in terms of the game system. Mainly to capitalize on the youth and athleticism the Jazz have now that they Spurs didn’t have in 2014.
Diaw is truly excited about his new team. ‘We are a young team with lots of potential’. Diaw believes that most of the young players in Utah have great future. He puts a special emphasis on Dante Exum and Trey Lyles. Exum is highly athletic. It gives the team a defensive advantage that works well in a Spurs-like perimeter defensive system, and Lyles already scores lots of 3 pointers, which is great for stretching the floor for the Jazz offensively.
The Jazz hasn’t reached the NBA playoffs for a long five years. Still, Diaw is sure that this year they can repeat the 2012 appearance and believes they can surpass the result by going deep into the post-season. Nobody talks about it, but all the players want to reach that point. And Diaw claims that with their potential, it is within their control.
For now, we can just wait and see whether his predictions are true or is it just the euphoria of being on another team with talent.
