It makes no sense

After adding New Jersey on Saturday to a list that already inexplicably included Miami, New York, Charlotte, Indiana and Chicago from the Eastern Conference, plus Sacramento and Minnesota from the West, Jazz players are as perplexed by anyone by their well-chronicled propensity for falling to sub.-500 teams.
‘We don’t have a tough time playing against the top teams. We never have,” point guard Deron Williams said. ‘It’s just the bottom teams that we have trouble getting up for them, and I don’t know why,” point guard Deron Williams said. ‘Those are games you’ve got to go in thinking you’ve got to win, no matter what.”
‘For some reason we get up against the good teams,” forward Matt Harpring added. ‘I don’t know why that is.”
One theory is that it is because the Jazz know they’re an above-average team that has to play at its best to compete with those who supposedly may be better, yet also thinks ‘ an obviously ill-advised notion ‘ that it can get away with skating against those who are sub-par.
In any event, Harpring, for one, opts in this instance to look at bright side.
‘But it’s a good thing,” he said, ‘because the teams that we’re gonna play in the playoffs are going to be good teams.”
More good news, in that regard, for the Jazz: Their next two opponents, Toronto on Monday and the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday, are above .500.
The bad, from that perspective: The remaining three visitors in a five-game homestand ‘ Seattle, Charlotte and the Los Angeles Clippers ‘ all having terrible records.