The Utah Jazz were no doubt a good team this season, but how much better could they have been with a time machine on their side? I went to the X-Box 360 yesterday to find out the results.
My exercise was similar to the one my colleague Zack Padmore did last week. The procedure went as follows:
- I released Mike Conley from the Utah Jazz
- I assigned John Stockton, of the 1997-98 Utah Jazz, to the current roster
- I fixed up the rotation to make it more realistic
Ever since the purple mountain jerseys were brought back early this season and the hype videos were released, I’ve been pondering the correlation between this Jazz team and the great NBA Finals teams of the late 1990s.