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The Jazz have had the hardest schedule in the NBA ... and it only gets harder in the next two weeks. How much of the Jazz’s record is their schedule, and how much is due to poor play?

It’s a schedule so tough even opposing coaches are talking about it, without any prompting.

“With Utah, I just think everybody’s overlooking something that nobody wants to hear about: Their schedule has been outrageous," Miami Heat coach Eric Spoelstra said last week. “They’ve basically lived in a hotel for the first six weeks of the season. Come talk to me in two months and we’ll see what their record is. I think they’ll be climbing up that Western Conference pretty quickly.”

“The Jazz have had a hellacious schedule. Let me repeat that, a hellacious schedule,” he said.