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Trade Rumors Involving the Jazz

I also don’t buy the “we aren’t tanking… we may keep our vets” narrative. I’m old enough to remember when we weren’t trading Don… then it was “well we will be open to offers that are ridiculously one sided in our favor”… then we held an effing auction for him. This is just what the narrative needs to be to get the best return for your vets. I don’t think we will or even can go to the Philly levels of tank… but by end of year we will be bottom 5 either through strategic benching moves or just offloading so many key pieces that it makes winning very hard. Maybe just playing THT a ton.
 

idiot said:
If this is the way we solve our numbers crunch, all it says to me is that the numbers crunch was not real in the first place.

If we throw in Butler or Dok, all that means is we don't care enough about them to keep them. So if we're not that invested in them, there's no real need have a trade involved. We could just waive them anyway. If something like this happens, it's more about saving a few million than anything else (which is fine, but hardly rises to the level of urgency that I thought Windhorst was portraying).
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Maybe another team does believe in them to some degree and they are giving you a distant protected 2nd round pick or something. And you still have to pay the dudes when you waive them. They don't magically disappear from your cap
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I also don’t buy the “we aren’t tanking… we may keep our vets” narrative. I’m old enough to remember when we weren’t trading Don… then it was “well we will be open to offers that are ridiculously one sided in our favor”… then we held an effing auction for him. This is just what the narrative needs to be to get the best return for your vets. I don’t think we will or even can go to the Philly levels of tank… but by end of year we will be bottom 5 either through strategic benching moves or just offloading so many key pieces that it makes winning very hard. Maybe just playing THT a ton.
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You are most likely right. You obviously can't come outright and say you're tanking.

I just think it's pretty clear this isn't an OKC/Philly level job.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
You are most likely right. You obviously can't come outright and say you're tanking.

I just think it's pretty clear this isn't an OKC/Philly level job.
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And it may not even be a message to the rest of the league for trade value purposes. It might be a message to our current players that we want to develop… they need to have hope/optimism to be able to develop and get the culture right. Can’t be like “we are gonna be total *** cuz we want a top 5 pick” and also sell the young guys that you believe in them and want them to be successful. If Sexton, Lauri, Simone, and the other young guys are the reason we are a play in team then it means they took a leap and they can be solid building blocks.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
The "too small backcourt" thing was greatly overstated with Donovan/Conley. We never failed because of lack of size at the guard spots.
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It was never the single biggest issue, it was however a considerable contributing factor. When we have a team like the Clippers with 4 guys rotating in and out that are all 4-6 inches taller than our back court we stand no chance to guard anyone with 2 guys barely pushing 6'2" out there.
 
LogGrad98 said:
It was never the single biggest issue, it was however a considerable contributing factor. When we have a team like the Clippers with 4 guys rotating in and out that are all 4-6 inches taller than our back court we stand no chance to guard anyone with 2 guys barely pushing 6'2" out there.
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Yeah, I get that, but it wasn't like contesting shots over the top was the thing killing us. It was just guys getting beat off the dribble, which having a shorter/quicker team (especially since our short guys are extremely long) that kind of thing should your advantage.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
A better spot than a 30 million dollar spot?

Yeah, I think it's something.
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Might be a different 30M spot... just wanna be closer to the beach or some ****... IDK... its SoCal so all those places are bonkers.

I do think its something... but there is a chance its nothing I suppose.
 
Don't think Westbrook would ever actually buy a home in SLC
Seems like whatever team he goes to will cut him immediately anyway
Why sell his home in LA
Just stay there till you know where you may go
 
He saw this meme and got FOMO, but didn’t fully think this through.

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slc said:
Don't think Westbrook would ever actually buy a home in SLC
Seems like whatever team he goes to will cut him immediately anyway
Why sell his home in LA
Just stay there till you know where you may go
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He probably doesn't live in LA during the off-season? He probably lives somewhere right outside of LA (maybe that's the listed place. Don't care enough to do research).

So if the listed spot is the spot he owns near Staples center for work purposes then it could be something. If hes just selling his off-season home to change it up, then nothing.
 
Plot twist: I care and it's easy to search.

The Brentwood neighborhood is 22 minutes from Staples Center. This is Russ selling his work home (though it's possible his work home was also his off-season home)
 
So with this Sarver thing going down... he supposedly can't be involved in basketball operations (how the hell that gonna work?)... I wonder if they end up staying status quo for a while. Like he can't tell James Jones if he will pay more tax or approve a trade?

Anyway... another random happening around the league that may have a small effect on us.
 
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