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Did it worth losing the lottery pick ?

Was it worth not having the lottery pick?

  • Yes

    Votes: 41 56.9%

  • No

    Votes: 31 43.1%
  • Total voters
    72
i think playoff gave us some absolute benefits, especially getting rid of the dreams we had when we won a couple of games in a row in the beginning and at the end of the season, so we know what this current roster is capable of better. But i also thought it would be a good asset if we had 10th-11th pick in this draft. Well anyway, whats done is done. I hope we get the Gsw pick and make the right moves in offseason.

I m just curious, if KOC will still be interested in Kirilenko and Memo, and how the management will figure out SG-SF issue. Burks is very talented, but not a good fit with Hayward, one of them must play 2, which i would say Hayward, maybe we can make a similar rotation we need to do in big man rotation (Millsap-Favors-Kanter) like Burks-Haywar- Howard(or whoever)
 
Yes: Because Hayward, Burks, and Kanter all played sucky and learned what it takes to actually win a real game. They'll be motivated to come back better than ever. Favors also has to work on a lot of stuff, but I kind of felt like he got over a bump. I really hope this teaches Tyrone the most.
Who knows? Maybe this also ups the trade value of Big Al because the Jazz showed that they can win (to some extent) with Big Al as a central focus on the offense.

No: If nobody uses this game as motivation to get better and if we don't trade for a pick or player. I think we need a solid young PG or SF to really get going.
 
Weezur said:
Yes: Because Hayward, Burks, and Kanter all played sucky and learned what it takes to actually win a real game. They'll be motivated to come back better than ever. Favors also has to work on a lot of stuff, but I kind of felt like he got over a bump. I really hope this teaches Tyrone the most.
Who knows? Maybe this also ups the trade value of Big Al because the Jazz showed that they can win (to some extent) with Big Al as a central focus on the offense.

No: If nobody uses this game as motivation to get better and if we don't trade for a pick or player. I think we need a solid young PG or SF to really get going.
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New Here, One of my first posts-
Yes and No
Case for Yes-
I would have been all for playoffs as long as Favors, Burks, Kanter got bulk minutes -even if we got swept I would have been ok with this.
I was just hoping for more fight from this team and did not want to watch blowouts.
Case for No-
Draft appears deep and we could have done with another piece.

Short answer - NO because Favors only started last game of the series and Burks , Kanter should have seen more minutes to learn playoff ball.
Heres hoping GS is leap froged
 
Easily.

Another 13 pick wouldn't have helped us at all. We are young already, adding more youth is not the answer. We got the experience. The young guys got to see the difference in playoff ball from the regular season. EASILY worth making the playoffs. If you dont think it was worth it, maybe your you should go cheer for the warriors..
 
Weezur said:
Yes: Because Hayward, Burks, and Kanter all played sucky and learned what it takes to actually win a real game. They'll be motivated to come back better than ever. Favors also has to work on a lot of stuff, but I kind of felt like he got over a bump. I really hope this teaches Tyrone the most.
Who knows? Maybe this also ups the trade value of Big Al because the Jazz showed that they can win (to some extent) with Big Al as a central focus on the offense.

No: If nobody uses this game as motivation to get better and if we don't trade for a pick or player. I think we need a solid young PG or SF to really get going.
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very good, i would sign under it
 
Yes, the draft pick was gone this year or next. We can still sign free agents. But this is the big off season between 2nd and 3rd year for Hayward and Favors. Playoffs should motivate them. It gave them a taste and showed them what they have to do to get back and what winning teams do. I think this series boosted Favors confidence going up against Duncan and coming out ahead at times was great for him. You could see in game 4 that he felt like he could dominate, he had attitude he chipped Duncan after a dunk, he knocked tony parker down, he strutted after a sweet block on Duncan. This playoffs was great for Favors and he is our most important player. I think this series will motivate Hayward to bust *** this off season and get better.
 
Broncster said:
Yes, the draft pick was gone this year or next. We can still sign free agents. But this is the big off season between 2nd and 3rd year for Hayward and Favors. Playoffs should motivate them. It gave them a taste and showed them what they have to do to get back and what winning teams do. I think this series boosted Favors confidence going up against Duncan and coming out ahead at times was great for him. You could see in game 4 that he felt like he could dominate, he had attitude he chipped Duncan after a dunk, he knocked tony parker down, he strutted after a sweet block on Duncan. This playoffs was great for Favors and he is our most important player. I think this series will motivate Hayward to bust *** this off season and get better.
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I'm also under the impression that the only thing that needed to come out of the playoff run was for the young players to see how much they needed to work on their game to be a top team. If you try to tank at the end of the season for just a better pick, then all that does is teach our players to settle, and erases any fire they had in them.
 
Yes and no. How do you like that answer? It all depends on who is available at 14 or 13 pick? Depends what kind of career player that person is. Did the Jazz miss the next Karl Malone or Kobe Bryant?

It is ok that we lost the pick if the Jazz organization and players learn from what they saw on the court. Does KOC find some missing pieces and realizes that Howard, Bell, CJ are not needed? Does he go after FAs instead of re-signing guys like Howard and CJ? Do the players work hard and realize how much they need to improve? Does Ty "get it" and realize that its time to play Burks over Bell or does he revert back to playing the veterans? Time will tell if it was better to make the playoffs or to have kept the draft pick. Right now I do not really know.
 
If it wasn't the 14th pick it might be a different story, but it was so I'm glad we made the playoffs and saw what a real team plays like.
 
I think Utah Jazz team was meant to make the playoffs this year. Yes it looks like they barely made it with veteran players getting the more and actual playing minutes. But when you even think with the other possible direction along the season, I mean playing with more minutes for Favors and the rookies, the team could have had even more chance to get to the playoffs.

Maybe they could get 38-40 wins with Favors playing 25 mins, Kanter 17, Burks 20. (This rotation was possible to do if Corbin had tried the big 3 earlier in the season)

Anyway this was the thing that the so-called tankers(including me) all wanted to be done and please let me repeat, the more and better playing times for the rookies and Favors wouldn't mean the team would be out of the playoffs. Heck, maybe it would have brought the 6th or 5th seed. Besides, I don't believe there were any Jazz fans who wanted to intentionally lose the games like some other teams did.

Thence in my opinion, the op question is kinda redundant or inessential here. Maybe we should ask like this,

"Was it worthy to make the playoffs without giving more and quality minutes to the rookies and Favors, instead of playing with them and developing the team's future players while still making the playoffs?"

On the other hand, of course some can say that Corbin(and KOC) played Big Al this much to be able to marketing him offseason or next season. I think that would be another story to disscuss, whether if it's true or plausible... or worthy...
 
I was hopeful that the 8th (GSW) and 14th picks could be packaged to trade up for something in the 4-6 range. That would have required both teams to fal in the right places, AND some slick dealing by management.
Since all of those pieces didn't fall into place I think a taste of the playoffs was as good as a 14th pick.
 
shakavaka said:
If you dont think it was worth it, maybe your you should go cheer for the warriors..
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Amen brotha!!

That sums up my feelings on the pick v. playoffs argument right there. It's all about existing talent understanding how much harder they have to work to make it.

Hayward sucked it up against the spurs, and it's the best thing that could've happened to him going into the off season (not the best thing for me as a fan). If he's really suppose to be the other half of our foundation with Favors, he can't have performances like that. Hayward has the type of personality that will benefit from this series.
 
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