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Putting aside the argument of whether or not to tank a season, the question is why we would want to. We have a lot of talent on this team already. We're actually to the point where salary could become a big issue in a few years when all these guys are up for a new contract. Seems to me it's...

My opinion is that tanking leads to a culture of losing that is not repaired just by getting a few great picks in the drafts. By the time you get those players, the ones you already have that are worth having don't want to play for you anymore. Players need to be taught to win, to work within...

After watching this team gel over the last few weeks, I don't know whether it's more disturbing that we have a poll like this on a Jazz fans website or that over 25% of those "fans" actually want us to lose...

I voted for Tinsley because when he's on, he's better than Watson ever was. I really like Watson too as he has definitely won some big games for us. I really like the idea of keeping both of them, but I have a feeling that both will get some decent offers from other teams in the offseason.

I'm not down on Corbin as a lot of people are around here. But if they give him COY, that's just a slap in the face to Jerry Sloan. I kinda doubt they would actually give it to Corbin anyway, but this is precisely the type of performance where they like to give it. (Team with very low...

You think we're missing out on developing these guys because we might have a potential superstar on our hands. I think we have a pretty good idea of what these players can be, and are developing them appropriately. What point do you think I missed?

Some players come out of the gate essentially as NBA all-stars. The large majority do not. That does not mean that our young guys can't become stars in this league, but you can rest assured that we don't have a LeBron/Durrant/Rose riding the bench. I wish we did, but we don't.

Some people are so blinded by their desire to see our young players get more minutes that they don't realize that Howard was a great asset to the team this year. The team is definitely worse for not having him available. My only concern about Howard from the start was that I think he was...

You say this as if it's a bad thing. Teams should play their veterans. There's a reason that they are veterans. Does that mean that they don't make mistakes and eventually can't be replaced? Of course not. But the idea that we should just play our young guys based on their potential or...

I'm just confused that people who profess to be NBA fans can have such a fundamental lack of understanding of how players develop in this league. There are very few players ever that have been able to be let loose as rookies/sophomores and had any measure of success. Just because you see...

Locke made a pretty compelling argument a while back that we were on a very steep path to make the playoffs even with Deron still around. With the fact that Deron was already hurt compounded with the other injury issues the team was having, I feel pretty confident that we weren't headed to the...

My guess is that everyone he passes to on that team is a black hole that shoots the ball. They make enough of those shots to rack up D-Will some assists, but not enough to make them a good team. He has definitely been getting a lot of assists, but there's always more to the game than just...

I agree with you. Good rebounding is certainly part of good defense and should not be discounted. We certainly need more of it, and I am still baffled by how out of position for rebounding we seem to be. It's great to see the team putting up more fight on defense, but there needs to be some...

My problem with Boozer (even though I was never a big Anti-Boozer person) is that he was opportunistic in chasing the almighty stats. He knows better than anyone that being able to maintain 20/10 means something in this league. Some would argue that it means too much. There is no doubt that...

It certainly was high priority for the Jazz to get Matthews back, but that doesn't mean they were going to overpay him. Pretty much everyone agrees that Portland made a ridiculous offer for Matthews. Even his agent seemed genuinely surprised by the offer. The Jazz weren't cheap. They had an...

Your so-called negotiation strategy assumes that your lowball offer is never going to be run by all the other possible suitors giving them a chance to beat it. It also makes the assumption that Wesley Matthews would be so overwhelmed by our lowball offer that he would then no longer talk to...

If the Jazz have an opportunity for a decent player with the rest of the MLE, they might do it. But I'm thinking they will sign Fesenko and then fill the rest of their spots with minimum contracts. I don't see them pushing further into the luxury tax to fill out their roster as you have suggested.

I guess that I have to agree with that. A lot of gambling goes on here. I suppose that if the Jazz really thought highly enough about Matthews when they signed him to that one-year contract, they always could have have made it 2 or 3 years. You're at risk if you offer too little or if you...

"Signed" can mean just through summer league or training camp, etc. I don't believe either are signed for next season.

On another note, I am kind of bothered because of Wesley Matthew's unique situation here. Because he went undrafted, he wasn't part of the rookie scale. And because he was only offered a 1-year contract by the Jazz, he is now eligible to make more than the #1 draft pick from the draft where he...