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Utah Jazz: A hot streak

If it were at all possible for the Utah Jazz to get a mulligan for the start of the season, they’d happily accept it. But since that’s not at all possibly, unless there’s a hidden time machine somewhere out there, the Jazz would be happy with a hot streak.

After their rough start, the Jazz aren’t entirely out of the playoff picture, but they are now playing catch up at this point in the season. If they could reel off five or six straight, they’d be right back in the thick of things.

Many thought the Jazz could be one of the big dark horses in the Western Conference this year. So far, they’ve failed those expectations and have been everything but that. Maybe that begins to change in the new calendar year.