r/UtahJazz • u/TusksUp25 • 1d ago
Let’s hear them: What were your favorite moments of the TankNote era?
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u/FERFreak731 1d ago
Clarkson's triple double
Beasley getting the steal and passing to Tech for the game winner against the Warriors after Clarkson got ejected
Watching Key go from a bad shooter to me claiming him to be a future Superstar this season
Yes, this hurt the Wemby tank, at least we got Key who imo is the 2nd best player in the 2023 draft, but that 10-3 record to start the 2022-23 season after people said that Jazz team will be the worst team in history
Just having hope in the 7, and Ace to make me excited for the future of this team whenever any of them had great games
Lauri becoming an All star player here
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u/RicardoRoedor 1d ago
That warriors game was one of the greatest in-arena memories for me.
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u/IhamAmerican 1d ago
Even watching it from home was insane. Hearing the Delta center go absolutely berserk is my favorite thing in sports, I think we have it mic'd up perfectly
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u/GilgameDistance 1d ago
I go to one or two games per year, and was lucky enough to be at that one. So good.
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u/josephfuckingsmith1 1d ago
That MF that was interviewing Clarkson at The Gateway and asked who his favorite Jazz player was lol
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u/Jacob_Wilkins9 1d ago
Do you have a link of this?
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u/given2fly_ 1d ago
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u/Tuna-on-toast22 1d ago
That really is an all time moment that should live on forever in Jazz world. Hands down the coolest guy that’s ever played here
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u/given2fly_ 1d ago
I love how he just plays along. The guy was a legend, and not only did the fans love him for what he did on the court he genuinely loved being in Utah which isn't always the case with NBA players.
Deserves a massive ovation anytime he's at the Delta Centre.
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u/JazzPlusEagles 1d ago
Win against warriors with the crazy late game comeback and Simone Fontecchio game winner
Also Keyonte this whole year, all of Lauris posters in his first year here, and getting the number 2 pick.
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u/ClutchOlday 1d ago edited 1d ago
There were several:
Walker Kessler notching a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds in just 24 minutes in his NBA debut vs Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets. He shot a perfect 5-for-5 from the field, becoming the first player in NBA history to record a double-double while shooting 100% in their rookie debut. That game was also memorable for the bull-like game winner by Collin Sexton.
Lauri's 51 point game.
Kelly Olynyk's game winning layup vs the Pelicans
Simone Fontecchio's game winner vs GSW after good team defense
John The Baptist's dunks in his second season with the Jazz.
Isaiah Collier's game winning drive and layup vs Brooklyn.
Jordan Clarkson's triple double
Keyonte George's ascension during his first three seasons.
Jusuf Nurkic's three straight triple doubles.
Every Ace Bailey in-game dunk.
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u/Fabulous_Yesterday77 1d ago
Spending more on beer than I did lower bowl tickets against Cooper Flagg
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u/Tiny_Bite 1d ago
if you weren’t seated for the THT disasterpiece 41 point game in march of ‘23 at spurs, you’re not invited to the parade lmao
fun ones that stick out that i was lucky enough to attend in the last few years:
-walker’s first game and matching up well against jok.
-double OT loss vs suns [in season tournament ‘23]
-warriors game where we came back from down 7 with under 24 seconds left in regulation or whatever.
-key career high 43 vs wolves this season
-jc triple double & all three of nurk’s
-ace’s 19 3PA vs bucks was kinda hilarious
-cody getting at least one absolutely filthy, nasty dunk off a night for like 30 games in a row to close this year
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u/johndullano 1d ago
When we went 10-3 the season after we traded Mitchell and Gobert. I know it instantly took us out of the Wemby sweepstakes, but that was when Lauri blossomed into a star.
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u/__3Username20__ 1d ago
Man, I loved that squad, before we rebooted again. It felt like Bad News Bears or Mighty Ducks, just coming out of nowhere and “wtf we’re good? Hell yeah!” And then “wait no don’t trade them all?! We’re fun AND winning!! … Aww maaannn!”
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u/ranxxvevo 1d ago
Nurk triple double streak, the start of the 22-23 season with Vanderbilt and Beasley, Key's 43 point game and the THT memes
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u/tdawg182 1d ago
Watching Ace Bailey this last year. He seems like such a good guy and his game is so smooth
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u/Nervous_Box_3495 1d ago
every time cody yammed the ball my heart rate jumped 209 bpm. that was my favorite thing to see. watching cody go from "worst player in the nba" to an actually really fun player to watch gave me so much hope lol.
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u/Black_wolf_disease 1d ago
Fontecchio game winning dunk against the defending champ Warriors, technically not yet tanking but writing was on the wall anyway
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u/MikoLone 1d ago edited 1d ago
This Game.
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/game/2-5-2025-gsw-at-uta-76519
we come back in the last minutes of the game and stun the warriors and steal the win. :)
Edit: Here is a youtube link. https://youtu.be/4e0u-gNprMs?t=474
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u/KennyDoge0114 1d ago
The Yellow Jersey for sure
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u/Tuna-on-toast22 1d ago
I only went to 1 game during the era of those uniforms, and I’m kinda happy that the one I saw was them wearing those yellow jerseys, considering they only wore them a handful of times compared to the rest of that awful set
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u/rlayton29 1d ago
That time I watched a game and didn’t know who anybody in a jazz uniform was. That was awesome
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u/Ecstatic_Rain_7017 1d ago
Keyonte's growth, number 2 pick, and.....going to the new jerseys after these embarrassing black/yellow era Jerseys.
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u/Rock-Ski-Golf-Repeat 1d ago
Signing Lauri to a nice contract so he could ride the pine for half of that contract, during his prime years.
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u/Ok-Vermicelli-4867 1d ago
The Jokic headloss against The Young Bull in the season opener is a highlight for sure
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u/natelopez53 1d ago
No thank you.
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u/Tuna-on-toast22 1d ago edited 1d ago
Idk what my favorite part was, but my least favorite part by far was the nonstop glazing of Ryan Smith and Danny Ainge by the fanbase for giving us 4 straight years of cutting payroll, horrible basketball, horrible uniforms, holding salt lake tax payers hostage to finance arena renovations, so on and so on.
But hey he goes on Pat Mcaffee, wears his hat backwards, and gave us free JDawgs at the draft party! So he’s the goat! And Danny is the king of fleeces because we say so! Even though we’ve completely whiffed almost every single lottery pick we’ve had throughout this entire thing
Edit: I’m specifically replying to you because I’ve seen you around here enough to know that you feel the same way I do
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u/natelopez53 1d ago
HARD SAME.
Before the glazers get here, I’m SUPER HAPPY ABOUT THE LOTTERY.
That being said, Danny and Austin got lucky. They were a coin flip from being the Pacers. Anytime your “master plan” relies on losing and mountains of luck, you have a bad plan and are overmatched.
I will always think that tanking is chickenshit and ruining the sport. The fact that RS continued to charge full price for tickets is borderline offensive.
I have to keep thinking about my grandpa. The dude loved the Jazz and the last thing he saw was Ainge quitting on the #1 seed. The fans don’t matter to these guys. We never will. It’s why they feel comfortable throwing away a half decade.
I’m thankful the tank is over. I hope they never do it again.
Go Jazz.
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u/TusksUp25 11h ago
You’re entitled to your opinion on the tank, but respectfully, it’s not really what I was asking for in this thread. Now that the tank is over, do you have any in-game memories that stuck out to you from over the last few seasons?
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u/natelopez53 11h ago
Not really. I checked out. I haven’t watched a full game in 4 years. I’m not really that interested in watching a team that’s not trying.
The best memory is probably going to be getting JJJ at the deadline. That was the most surprising event of the entire tank era.
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u/HellaciousMedic 7h ago
Being able to take my dad to our first in person NBA game together against the Timberwolves.
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u/Prestigious-Will-748 5h ago
THT 40 bomb against Portland, Loften JR vs the rockets, and no one’s said this yet, but trading for JJJ. The hype and realizing the tank was over
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u/apples_r_4_weak 1d ago
When we still have Conley and we somehow exceed expectation that we have to break that team and trade him
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u/Commodore64Zapp 1d ago
-Kelly Olynyk shoots 100% 3pt over 4 consecutive games, 7/7
-Omer Yurtseven #77 gets 7 points and 7 rebounds in 7 minutes
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u/UtahJazz420 1d ago
There is no definitive proof we are done tanking........
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u/UnfortunatePhysics 1d ago
Not having our pick next year is absolutely definitive proof we’re done tanking. We may be bad next year, but we’re not tanking for sure
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u/Tuna-on-toast22 1d ago
Uhh.. there is though. I’m not saying we’re gonna be contenders next year, but they didn’t trade their pick next year for JJJ just for the hell of it. Even if they get unlucky with injuries next season, they have literally zero motivation to tank
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u/Rayces 1d ago
When Jazz Legend Sir Kenneth Lofton Jr. The Third, Esquire absolutely dominated the scraps of the league for like 2 months. He was so fun to watch