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Crazy that trading for someone as competent as George Hill can be considered a risky move, but it is. We've been in the process of building this team for six years. After six years of not seriously competing, we make our first win-now move. It would be nice if we had acquired at least one true...

Honestly, I'd throw in the 12 to make this happen. Even then the Lakers would probably say no unless they think it will help them sign a star FA and contend.

At this point to convince anyone of that they would have to make the playoffs and achieve something story worthy. I'm not sure they can wait another season in the hopes that it plays out this way.

I agree about the draft. However, not only do you have to draft someone special, you have to give them an opportunity to burst onto the scene. With our lineup, the guy we draft at 12 is going to get just that, 12 minutes a game. Slow Jazz-style development might be good for a role player's...

I don't post much, and to be honest my interest in the Jazz took a huge hit this past season for various personal reasons, but the jazz have done nothing lately to convince me to watch religiously like I used to. I can see both sides of the argument in this thread. On one hand their...

At 12 I'd absolutely love it if we drafted Towns or Russell. I'd kind of hate it if we drafted Guillermo Hernangomez.

The word upside is stupid. When 3/5 of the All NBA 1st team have "limited upside" on their draft scouting profiles, you gotta wonder if the word has any meaning at all. That's as up as it gets.

No, Kanter's value plummeted much later, and that's mostly on him. It was Millsap and Jefferson's value that took the hit at the time. We took on two big men, each drafted #3 overall. There was no future on the team for Millsap and Jefferson after that. They knew it. The whole league knew it. We...

Careers are made in a number of ways in this league and not all of them have to do with the drive and talent of the player himself. It's true that some internal competition for a role on a team can be a good thing. Rudy is possibly better today than he would have been had he not had to work to...

I don't agree with myself entirely either. Obviously take the markedly better player. All I'm saying is logjams aren't always easy to sort out. Unless you come out with a real star in the end, you're going to bleed value and harm chemistry.

Drafting into a log jam is a good way to kill the value of all players involved. We don't have a lot of roles available on this team. I guess that's a sign we're finally getting good, but players on their first deals need to see that a path to success is available to them. I honestly believe...

This draft class is really growing on me. After the hype fest of last year this one looked like a bunch of nobodies to start the season. It's a good omen that despite the early lack of name recognition nobody's calling it a weak draft or saying it's only 11 deep. It had to have been so tempting...

Bring over Tomic and Pleiss's value goes up as the starting center for Barcelona! Wait a year and trade Pleiss back to the thunder for an extended Durant.

I for one have yet to see Brock Motum miss a shot.

I really hope we guarantee Booker's contract. Actually, let's extend it! What a rad dude.

It feels like we have a coin flip every year.

Can we please delete this thread? It makes us all look bad.

Exum is obviously a very bright basketball player. He's out there devoting himself entirely to defense because he knows that's how he can best contribute to winning right now. I don't get the impression he's scared or timid. It's more like he's self aware. There are better offensive players on...

The last few years for the Jazz have been an interesting study in player value. When you're not winning there's only so much value that can go around. Paul and Al had very little value because they were expiring, we had younger players hiding behind them, and we were losing. Now (or in Al's case...

Kanter didn't have a lot of value. He can't pass and he can't defend the rim. No one falls in love with players like that. I'm with you all though. I am outraged Dennis Lindsay didn't force, or at least trick, some doofus GM into committing career suicide by giving up a bunch of stuff fans can...