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Hack said:
Two types of tanking.

1. Tanking one year at a time with only one pick each year, hoping you nail it each time.

2. Tanking when you already have 4 great prospects, multiple upcoming picks, and nice veterans that you can trade for more picks, all the while increasing your chances ten fold that you can build a really good team because you have a lot of talent all at once, not just one maybe per year.

Big difference. Number 2 is what jazzfanz pro tankers had in mind. All that plus you give your young guys plenty of burn.

Oh well. Too late now. Its in the past.
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Great post!
Repped.

This is what i have always thought as well.... we would not have been like the warriors, clippers, wizards etc etc cause we were in a whole different situation.
 
I have curry and lee on my fantasy team and they are tearing it up!.... i had barnes (the guy they tanked for) but he has sucked really bad even with brandon rush hurt and getting more minutes so i dropped him.

The tanking of last year isn't really helping them much.... its mostly jarrett jack, curry, and lee that are getting it done for them. (although i was still in the wanting to miss the playoffs camp last year.)
 
spycam1 said:
1. Washington - Wall
2. Toronto - Lowry
3. Cleveland - Irving
4. New Orleans - Vasquez
5. Detroit - Knight
6. Phoenix - Dragic/Marshall
7. Sacramento - Brooks/Evans/Fredette
8. Charlotte - Walker
9. Orlando - Nelson
10. Lakers - Nash
11. Portland - Lillard
12. Houston - Lin
13. Denver - Lawson
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No way Wall and Lowry go before Irving, and Lillard aint falling to 11 either. Other than that pretty solid.
 
Sad to be wishing for a Curry injury, but thats kind of where we are at. I still think the league should have fined the teams for tanking and restructure the draft so that the percentages and #'s of balls bouncing is closer after the first pick. But if we draft well we should be fine. I will say no one in this draft really excites me... next year is the draft that has a stud (Wiggins).
 
fishonjazz said:
I have curry and lee on my fantasy team and they are tearing it up!.... i had barnes (the guy they tanked for) but he has sucked really bad even with brandon rush hurt and getting more minutes so i dropped him.

The tanking of last year isn't really helping them much.... its mostly jarrett jack, curry, and lee that are getting it done for them. (although i was still in the wanting to miss the playoffs camp last year.)
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Dude, you can't just show up on Jazzfanz and post crap like that. If it doesn't follow the the preconceived story line we all have then you'll never get any rep.

and Nice work spycam1
 
spycam1 said:
I still think this could happen. Let's say we get the 14th pick from GSW (optimistic right now, but certainly within possibility considering how injury prone they are). Well, how many teams in the lottery actually need a PG? Even if there is a PG that is considered BPA, I can see plenty of teams passing on him to get a talented player at a position of need. Let's take a look at the current lottery standings and the chances they would take a PG.

1. Washington - Wall
2. Toronto - Lowry
3. Cleveland - Irving
4. New Orleans - Vasquez
5. Detroit - Knight
6. Phoenix - Dragic/Marshall
7. Sacramento - Brooks/Evans/Fredette
8. Charlotte - Walker
9. Orlando - Nelson
10. Lakers - Nash
11. Portland - Lillard
12. Houston - Lin
13. Denver - Lawson

I can only see a few teams here taking a PG in the lottery, especially since most of those teams who might (New Orleans, Toronto, Detroit) will likely be top-5 and there is no chance a PG will be taken that high, anyway. Orlando seems like the biggest threat to taking the best PG.

We'll just have to hope Curry and company get injured and give us a pick at 13/14. If that happens, I think we have a reasonable shot to get the best PG, even if he's considered top 10 on most teams' boards.
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Good post. It is worth noting two things, however;

1) There is no great PG in this draft.
2) Teams are now all aware of the impending PG drought and see them as a highly tradable commodity.
 
PG are becoming extinct? We better force a couple of them to mate.

I think Chris Paul and Westbrook would be a good one.

Or

Derrick Rose and Rondo?
 
PKM said:
Good post. It is worth noting two things, however;

1) There is no great PG in this draft.
2) Teams are now all aware of the impending PG drought and see them as a highly tradable commodity.
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For sure, my post is under the context there will even be a PG in the lottery. And actually, Michael Carter-Williams is sky rocketing up. ESPN has him at #10, DX at #13.
 
i still have my doubts about golden state. their style of play is such that they'll have good stretches and bad stretches. they're a very jump-shot-reliant team which is fine right now because they're going in, but it only takes one protracted dry spell or one key injury to throw things out of whack again.

plus, i'm just not seeing that many QUALITY wins. ok, they beat miami in miami. aside from that, their most impressive win was probably at clippers. (other wins were @phx, cle, atl, @min, @dal, bkn, min, den, ind, det, @bkn, @was, @cha -- not a lot of sure-fire playoff teams, and a bunch of teams that just flat won't make it.)

they're the hot story right now because they've won 9 of the last 10, but they'll regress to the norm and they'll have some slides yet.

(and yes, i realize that everything i just said could be applied to the jazz, too.)
 
theNBAnerd said:
i still have my doubts about golden state. their style of play is such that they'll have good stretches and bad stretches. they're a very jump-shot-reliant team which is fine right now because they're going in, but it only takes one protracted dry spell or one key injury to throw things out of whack again.

plus, i'm just not seeing that many QUALITY wins. ok, they beat miami in miami. aside from that, their most impressive win was probably at clippers. (other wins were @phx, cle, atl, @min, @dal, bkn, min, den, ind, det, @bkn, @was, @cha -- not a lot of sure-fire playoff teams, and a bunch of teams that just flat won't make it.)

they're the hot story right now because they've won 9 of the last 10, but they'll regress to the norm and they'll have some slides yet.

(and yes, i realize that everything i just said could be applied to the jazz, too.)
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The Wizards beat the Heat. We beat the Heat. It's not the barometer of a good team. I think teams are just not familiar with the Warriors and what their players are capable of. I think they should probably end up under .500 overall.
 
I still think we could pry Marshall away from Phoenix. That is what I am hoping for. Say burks then replace him in this draft. Go 2 wings say Goodwin, mitchell or porter. It is loaded with wings
 
Still feel we have the assets to make a trade at the deadline for a pg, with a combination of Al Burks and draft picks. Other then Bledsoe and Vasquez who else is out there that the Jazz might be interested in?
 
Thee jazz fan said:
Still feel we have the assets to make a trade at the deadline for a pg, with a combination of Al Burks and draft picks. Other then Bledsoe and Vasquez who else is out there that the Jazz might be interested in?
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forgot to add Millsap, and with Carroll coming along nicely, might as well add the Wet Bandit and Mo to the list of assets
 
Xthren said:
I still think we could pry Marshall away from Phoenix. That is what I am hoping for. Say burks then replace him in this draft. Go 2 wings say Goodwin, mitchell or porter. It is loaded with wings
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Dude Marshall has been sucking balls in the D-League. He isn't any good. Thank God we didn't tank out of the playoffs soley to pick him.
 
theNBAnerd said:
i still have my doubts about golden state. their style of play is such that they'll have good stretches and bad stretches. they're a very jump-shot-reliant team which is fine right now because they're going in, but it only takes one protracted dry spell or one key injury to throw things out of whack again.

plus, i'm just not seeing that many QUALITY wins. ok, they beat miami in miami. aside from that, their most impressive win was probably at clippers. (other wins were @phx, cle, atl, @min, @dal, bkn, min, den, ind, det, @bkn, @was, @cha -- not a lot of sure-fire playoff teams, and a bunch of teams that just flat won't make it.)

they're the hot story right now because they've won 9 of the last 10, but they'll regress to the norm and they'll have some slides yet.

(and yes, i realize that everything i just said could be applied to the jazz, too.)
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Their schedule will get tougher but Atlanta, Brooklyn, Denver and Indiana are pretty good.
 
I'm not too worried cause shouldn't Mark Jackson be subbing in 4 wing players to finish games and at least 2 of them are career D-league types?









Oh wait you mean he wasn't trying to win those winnable games last year.......... son of a bitch!
 
PKM said:
Good post. It is worth noting two things, however;

1) There is no great PG in this draft.
2) Teams are now all aware of the impending PG drought and see them as a highly tradable commodity.
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I don't think we need a great point guard. Sure it would be nice to have one but a decent shooting, super fast pg with good size and dishing skills and a good handle would be great. We have a lot of scoring options so we just a floor general. Mo is doing well now but he is too old
 
Well, we have to hope GS will have an injury to Lee or Curry and the Lakers put it together once Nash returns (because some team has to move up and knock the W's out of the playoffs if they start to slide).

I guess the good news is GS will have too many wins to tank into the 6th spot if injuries start to happen. It wouldn't be a disaster if they finished as the 8th seed and we got the 15th pick. At least there wouldn't be a chance for them to move into one of the top-3 picks in the lottery. Doesn't the GS pick turn into a couple of 2nd-rounders if we don't get their 1st-rounder this year?

On the bright side, this probably means the Jazz get a couple of solid backups in the draft, but KOC and Lindsey will need to go after a FA or two to really improve the team. They had no problem getting Mo, Marvin and Foye. Let's hope they can bring in another couple of guys to take the Jazz a step further.
 
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