New York • Expectations and reality for the Utah Jazz are just about as far apart as they could possibly be.
You may remember the beginning of the season projections for Utah, some of which loftily placed them as the second best team in the Western Conference. Twenty-one games in, more than a quarter of the way through the season, they’re currently second from the bottom with a 9-12 record. In order to win their projected 53 games, they’d have to go 44-17 the rest of the way. Plausible, but certainly not probable.