Are the Jazz a top ten team?

I group teams into categories three of them are; Super Teams, A ton of talent but don't play like a Super Team, and Very Good teams


The Super teams:

Celtics
Heat
Lakers
Thunder
Spurs

A ton of talent but don't play like a super team:
clips
knicks
nets

Very good teams
grizzlies
nuggets
pacers

I wanted to see if the Jazz fell in there so I figured out.

Utah’s record vs “Super teams, Very Good teams, and ton of talent but don’t play like a super team”
Big wins are separated from the rest

UTA vs MIA W 99-98

UTA vs OKC W 97-90

UTA vs OKC L 87-101
UTA @ OKC L 85-111
UTA @ BOS L 82-94

UTA @ LAL W 103-99

UTA vs LAL W 96-87
UTA vs LAL L 87-90 (OT)
UTA @ LAL L 71-96
UTA @ SAS L 104-114
UTA vs SAS L 102-106
UTA vs SAS W 91-84
UTA @ SAS L 89-104
UTA vs DEN W 121-102
UTA @ DEN W 106-96
UTA @ DEN L 100-117
UTA vs LAC W 108-79
UTA vs LAC L 105-107
UTA @ LAC L 96-105
UTA @ NJN W 105-84
UTA vs NJN W 107-94
UTA @ NYK L 88-99

UTA @ MEM W 98-88

UTA @ MEM L 98-103
UTA vs MEM W 94-85
UTA @ IND L 99-104

Interesting stats:

• The Jazz played 26 games and won 12 of them (46 %)
• They Played 12 of those at home and won 8 of them (66.67%)
• They Played 14 on the road and only won 4 (28.5%) -Not bad though considering these are the best 10 teams
• Their record against the finalists(OKC and MIAMI) was 2-2 with 2 on the road
• They won the Memphis, Miami, Denver, and Brooklyn series and tied the Lakers series
• They lost the Pacers, Thunder, Spurs, Celtics, and Knicks series
• They lost 50% of these games by less than ten points.  That means half of their losses could have gone either way too, they could have very well have won 73% of their games vs these Big Boys

Contenders for 4th position? I think so.

I think the Jazz are going to be a threat for the 4th seed in the west for a few reasons,


They had 3 weaknesses last year: 3 point shooting, Defense, and fouling. And have adressed each one of them.


3 point shooting:
The Jazz last year did not have any 3 point shooters at all. literally. They had 0 people in the top 75 in three shooting last year and with the pickups of Mo Williams, Randy Foye, and Marvin Williams they have three in the top 45. They also will have the young guys stepping up (Hayward and Burks). With consistent threats on the outside and Post the Jazz will continue to be one of the best offensive threats in the league.

Defense
All three additions for the Jazz have been defensive upgrades for who they are replacing. And with Favors development we will jump “high to the sky”

Fouling
Ever hear the phrase “addition from subtraction”? Well that is true here, The Jazz traded Devin Harris who was fouling a whopping 3.5 times a game. That’s the highest on last years team by 0.7 fouls! The Jazz management is also going to try to address this problem during training camp.

The Jazz will also get much better on offense while Favors and the young guys game progress.  This team is ready for a big leap this year.