2. Lindsey
Geez, give the guy a couple of seasons to enact his plan. It wasn't until this summer the Jazz FO gave the ok to rebuild. They were still in talks with Millsap and other vets right up to the time the GS deal went down. The core-5 was NEVER going to be able to match the lack of team talent on Milwaukee and Philly. I'd like to go back to the prediction thread (before the season started). I don't think many of us had Utah in the bottom-5. Only thing that has changed is LA (due to injuries) swapping places with Phoenix. Still in a battle with Boston, Cleveland, Sacramento and Orlando. But we're only there because of Trey's injury and the terrible start.
Lindsey's plan was to get a lottery pick...period. The team composition is very much like Portland last season, which won 33 games. Barring major injuries - or a bust by one or more of the "core5" - there was little chance of getting a top-5 pick. And DL also got additional picks for using our cap space. An outstanding coup, IMO.
95% certain nothing will get done at the deadline. RJ and MW are just making too much; neither is easily traded. Dennis is about 1/2 done with putting a team in place. He's got a couple of 1st's, probably brings over Neto and likely signs 1-2 FA's with the cap space he'll have by letting the expirings simply EXPIRE. Some would view that as "getting nothing in return." I view it as going with BPA or Best "Free Agent" Available, rather than just the only player available that a team was willing to let go to trade for Marvin or Richard.
AS for Corbin, yeah, I guess DL could have let him go last year and kept Hornacek. I doubt that was an option he had. I still think Ty will be gone. Don't see a whole lot of defensive improvement and that was - uncharacteristcally - disclosed as the criteria Corbin would be judged on.
