I Think We Are Going Tank City Next Year
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In the Lindsey interview he mentioned explicitly the 2 paths that they can take:
1. Get in vet and move up the ladder (issue could be getting stuck with contracts, financial flexibility)
2. Go Young
He mentioned explicitly that the Millers are happy to go in either direction and this Summer they will make a decision as to which direction they will go.
Wow guys... I think the tank game could start pretty soon!!!
1. Get in vet and move up the ladder (issue could be getting stuck with contracts, financial flexibility)
2. Go Young
He mentioned explicitly that the Millers are happy to go in either direction and this Summer they will make a decision as to which direction they will go.
Wow guys... I think the tank game could start pretty soon!!!
Stifle Tower
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I don't understand the 1st option..."Get in vet and move up the ladder?"
LOL.. sorry I was meant to say get in veterans / solid players and improve the spot up the ladder. (i.e., go out and get legit FAs the way Indiana built their team)
green
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LOL.. green do you remember our conversation? I said be patient, wait for Millsap & Big Al to leave, and we'll go young and lean? Looking like a real possibility now bro!!!
green
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Lol. Every time I see you have posted, I let a little hope develop/grow. The more I hear Lindsay, the more excited I get.
Yeah man! It would be unbelievable if true. We'll have to find something else to complain about now!! LOL..
spycam1
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spycam1
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Wiggins is the real deal.
Yeah bro here ya go.. the bit about the 2 options are right at the end.
https://pro.kfnz-am.tritonflex.com/upload/audFiles/6-5-13DennisLindsey.mp3
mellow
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We both quoted that interview in a couple of threads now. It was good enough (except for Gunther's total fail at being funny) to have its own thread.
The Jazz have done a good job, and much improved from the past, of laying the ground work for fans expectations. Before the season was even over, even before the trade deadline Lindsey was saying 'we might do this, we could do that, and we might turn this over to the young players....'
Since the season was over I have heard Lindsey, Greg, KOC, and El Presidente Rigby make similar statements about needing to draft a star, letting the young kids play to see what they have, making a strategic move to conserve money.......
Good Job to the Jazz Managment team for building realistic expectations by controling the message that fans are hearing. Now, if they will just follow through with the ground work they have laid.
Much better to prep the fans and have a tank be a part of developing the young players you already have, than to be like Denver and just dump a tank on your fans after making the playoffs.
Or the epic fail in Atlanta where they are setting up to tank but the marketing people sent letters to season ticket holders saying "Renew now, before we sign Dwight Howard and Chris Paul this summer".
The Jazz have done a good job, and much improved from the past, of laying the ground work for fans expectations. Before the season was even over, even before the trade deadline Lindsey was saying 'we might do this, we could do that, and we might turn this over to the young players....'
Since the season was over I have heard Lindsey, Greg, KOC, and El Presidente Rigby make similar statements about needing to draft a star, letting the young kids play to see what they have, making a strategic move to conserve money.......
Good Job to the Jazz Managment team for building realistic expectations by controling the message that fans are hearing. Now, if they will just follow through with the ground work they have laid.
Much better to prep the fans and have a tank be a part of developing the young players you already have, than to be like Denver and just dump a tank on your fans after making the playoffs.
Or the epic fail in Atlanta where they are setting up to tank but the marketing people sent letters to season ticket holders saying "Renew now, before we sign Dwight Howard and Chris Paul this summer".
This is the main point I took away from the interview (and a few other interviews now as well). Look - everything they say and do is strategic. They own the blimmin' radio station - so of course the questions they were going to ask were planned ahead. Emailed to Lindsey for confirmation and for him to prep his answer accordingly.
The fact that the station had asked this questions 2-3 interviews now during LIVE interviews now (without being told not to ask it again in the future) tells me that there is a real possibility of "going young". I would say there is a better than 70% chance we're leaning that way.
This approach is also consistent with the fact that they had hired Karl to seriously work with Favors/Kanter. It also fits with the way the FO did nothing at the trade deadline to bring in "extra help" for next season (i.e., Bledsoe would need to be extended and we don't seem to want to do that). We would rather take on a prospect PG and "groom him" ourselves.
Playing young guys is a win-win:
- give them experience, make them step up & take responsibility
- decent draft pick next year to complete our core
JGolds
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ill be honest... i dont think playing the youngs is going to euqal a draft pick... do you reember that eastern confrence trip last year when al and sap were gone and the youngs almost beat the bulls.... it think the younins have the ability to put on that kind of show every night. and i am seriously doubting we are going to get a great draft pick.
think about it a starting five of:
PG...........
SG maybe Burks
SF Hayward
PF Favors
C Kanter.
i just have a hard time seeing this team in the bottom 5-10 even though they are young.
It's an illusion. Yeah the Core 4 will play great and it will be exciting. But the trick is the bench.
We won't have 1.
JGolds
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hmm... Maybe.. If you have: carroll, foye, and can find a good vet big for the right price. you could have a decent enough bench. not as deep as last year but still decent. look at all the decent teams around the NBA lots of them have suckish benches. bench only gives ya two things and these two things need to be dependable. you need a 6th man off the bench. someone that can lead the second unit, and lastly you need energy guys.
I know for a fact that in carroll and evans we have some energy, now we just need a 6th man off the bench.
I think they'll trial Burks as the 6th man the way they trialed Hayward last year.
Think about it - Burks had the ball handling experience from last year - he can attack and get to FT line. That's what we need from the bench. They'll hope he can be Harden Lite one day.
JGolds
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I agree 100%.. i just didnt want to get reimed for putting burks on the bench... Illusion or not. i cant see a team with a foundation of (favors, kanter, hayward carroll, burks, evans, most likly foye) being a bottom 5-10 team. they would have to have like a 20-42 record or something....