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Are Rick Carlisle and Erik Spoelstra great coaches? What about Scott Brooks, who almost won it all? All of them are average coaches who were carried by their superstars. There are dozens of people who can be an average NBA coach. If coaches had such a great impact on the teams records they...

People on this site really overrate the impact of the coaches on the teams. All they need to do is not being terrible. If we added to this team LeBron, younger Duncan or peak Shaq the Jazz would become an instant contender. And if we replaced Corbin with Popovich or Phil Jackson the Jazz would...

And how do you know that he wants to play in Utah? How many stars came to SLC in the last 15 years?

For a one-year rental of Harden? It is a steep price...

I hate to break it to you, but Kanter is NOT a smart basketball player. At least as of now. And Hayward has been getting plenty of minutes since the end of his rookie year.

Corbin stuck in the NBA for 14 seasons not for being athletic or having some unique skillset. He stayed because of his smarts and experience. He had seen many guys with mounds of athletic gifts and potential to fizzle and learned to appreciate the smarts and experience above all. As a coach he...

They may never become clearly better than Hayward and Favors, not everybody has a potential to be a star. But they keep improving. With Hayward and Favors I am not sure that they are better players now that they were in the final months of their rookie seasons.

Where is it? The Jazz are a young team and should be getting better, right? So why do we have the same timid Hayward, the same offensively challenged Favors, the same Kanter with his rookie mistakes and inability to pass. Burks is now being outplayed by Foye ...and in addition to that he...

Wow, the mythmaking at its finest...The Jazz comeback ended with Parker, Duncan and Leonard checking in the game. A minite after that they went on the huge run. It is not about Favors or Carroll, it is just an indication that the Jazz can't play on the level of the Spurs' best players. Yes, the...

Your obsession with Howard is borderline creepy.

O yes, it was and is worth it. The only way a player and a team can grow is by facing the toughest challenge possible. There is a million excuses to make to avoid the challenge and only one way to face it. Look at the teams like Washington, Warriors or Toronto -I am glad that Utah is different...

Why do you think so? Did you expect something different? We lose because we have much worse players, plain and simple. Their top 3 is miles above our top 3, their 3-point shooters are probably the best in the league, the core Spurs guys played together forever and SA has the best coach in the...

That is exactly what makes coaches and GMs different from the fans: the long-term vision. In several days the organization will need to make a decision on who are they going to try to keep. And it seems that the Jazz gave up on Evans already...

All three of our current SFs are coming off the books: CJ, Carroll, and Howard. And Hayward is obviously more comfortable playing the SG. No way the Jazz will let all of them walk hoping to sign 2-3 wings via the free agency and trades - they will try to keep at least one. They know what...

Wow, 5 pages and no one yet stated the obvious: Howard is getting a try-out. His contract ends this year, and the Jazz would like to see if he has anything left in his tank to keep him. His regular season performance was uneven: sometimes he played well and sometimes he was quite bad. The...

Actually, I am usually right on target. Here is my prediction made in the midst of the disastrous start of the season (when the majority of this board was wallowing in despair): Those were the obvious reasons why the Jazz were going to make the playoffs and the Jazz stats in the crunch are...

O, yeah, the data are from here: https://https://www.82games.com/1112/CSORT11.HTM

The Jazz are not the team to crush playoff teams by a good margin. The best chance for them to get wins against qulity opponents would be to prevail in the tight, down-to-the-wire games. So lets look at the clutch stats of the best Jazz players (4th quarter or overtime, less than 5 minutes left...

That is what I was thinking as well. In a couple of years a lot of old guys will drop off, and Hayward's competition would be guys like Harden, Afflalo and Thornton. I can easily see him as a top-3 SG in the West in a year or two.

Where do you think the current Hayward (the one we saw for the last two nomths) ranks among other shooting guards? I have only ten of them being clearly better: Wade Bryant Ginobili Harden Johnson Allen Martin Ellis Afflalo Thornton And another 6 being roughly equal to him (J.R...