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Pick your next season scenario

Which scenario do you choose?

  • 1

    Votes: 22 59.5%

  • 2

    Votes: 15 40.5%
  • Total voters
    37
I voted option #1. I don't see why we would want a top 3 pick over having 4 or 5 guys (Hayward, Burks, Burke, Favors, and Kanter) have great years. I really want the guys we have now to prove themselves to be what we think they can be. Think about it this way, Favors and Kanter are both top 3 picks and Burke was the best pg from the draft. These guys are our future and if they stink this year and get us a top 3 pick next year, who's to say that they will ever be any good for us in the future. This is their year to show us what they are really capable of doing. We will learn a lot about our young guys this season and I hope we learn some good things.
 
Unless you believe someone on this team is going to be capable of being the #1 guy on a title contender down the road, you have to go with option 2. Right now, I think we have some guys that could become the #2 guy on a title contender. We still need that guy who puts us over the edge.

I'd pick option 2, and think that's what WILL happen.
 
I think we'll be closer to 2 than 1, but who wouldn't want 1. It definitely will be satisfying to finally see what the young guys can do when given the chance.
 
Beantown said:
#1-"The kids take the league by storm"

The Jazz are the surprise team of the year. Hayward shows he can be a leader and is talked about as an All-Star. Trey Burke is in the running for the rookie of year and our two big guys Favors and Kanter clearly show they were ready to start. Both averaging around double double numbers. Alec Burks takes a big leap forward and shows he can consistently score the ball. The Jazz are a fringe playoff team somewhere between 6-9.
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The sixth seed won't exactly be a fringe playoff team. GS won 47 games last season as the 6th team. That's pretty solid. I think there's a good chance the top-7 in the WC conference will all win 50+ games. GS is likely better (I know we don't want to hear that). Houston is certainly better (last year's 8th seed with 45 wins). Lakers will be worse and allow a team like Portland to make the playoffs with 43-44 wins. Or we could see Minnesota (if healthy) or New Orleans nab that 8th seed.

Even IF the Core5 play great, I just don't see the bench as being strong enough to hold leads. It happened to Portland last season. The starting 5 was every bit as good as the projected Jazz unit AND more experienced. But their horrible bench played them right out of games.
 
Good question. Both scenarios are unrealistic (by design, not a critique), but #1 is major Disneyland material. The 10 youngest teams in the league last year averaged 31 wins. Keep in mind that in 2009, Durant averaged 25 ppg, Westbrook was first team all rookie team, and the Thunder won 23 games. I'd be happy with 30 wins, thrilled with 35, as long as the kids are developing.
 
Playing Marvin and Rush ahead of Burks and Hayward in an effort to win more games in the short term.

I would say that our roster actually is good enough to keep us out of the top lotto sports. But then again, ya gotta figure that we are dealing with Corbin and not Sloan. Sloan's teams typically played hard and overachieved. Whereas, Corbin's typically don't. And we will have an injury or two. A few folks are gonna get dinged up.

So hopefully we lose a bunch of games, get Corbin fired, and end up in the top lotto spots to TRULY rebuild. I see kanter and Burks having breakout years. Hayward? Meh. Not too much, we already know he's good but not great. He's a good 3rd option glue guy. Favors? His offense sucks and probably always will. He will continue to block shots. Kanter though, I see him really making a name for himself as one of the top young bigs in the game. And Burks, is going to average double figures.

Worst case would be serious injury to the c5. We have waited to see these guys play together. It's time.
 
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