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str8line

str8line

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Now that we have two superstars is it time to shed some weight and go for the championship gamble?

Favors, Burks, Hood and maybe even Rubio... gone. Accumulate picks, get some young studs/free agents. Shoot for title in 2-4 years.
 
str8line said:
Now that we have two superstars is it time to shed some weight and go for the championship gamble?

Favors, Burks, Hood and maybe even Rubio... gone. Accumulate picks, get some young studs/free agents. Shoot for title in 2-4 years.
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Rubio, Mitchell and Gobert all look great right now. That’s the start of your core right there. Hood too because he still has upside and is electric when he’s on fire. Jingles, Thabo and Udoh are all veteran keepers.

Jazz should look to rent a guy at the deadline and then integrate him into the culture (like Joe Johnson) and hope to keep him with Bird rights. They don’t necessarily have to blow it up to make a move. . . but it does have to be the right move. As it stands, I’m worried that Favors and Burks are redundant and will be gone within a year. Unless Favors and Rudy start tearing it up together, I think you almost have to look at packaging them together as part of a bigger deal at the deadline. I’d prefer to keep Favors, but not if it keeps the Jazz from being able to add a legitimate #1 option. Still hoping for a return to the Wasatch Front days.
 
Ellis269 said:
Rubio, Mitchell and Gobert all look great right now. That’s the start of your core right there. Hood too because he still has upside and is electric when he’s on fire. Jingles, Thabo and Udoh are all veteran keepers.

Jazz should look to rent a guy at the deadline and then integrate him into the culture (like Joe Johnson) and hope to keep him with Bird rights. They don’t necessarily have to blow it up to make a move. . . but it does have to be the right move. As it stands, I’m worried that Favors and Burks are redundant and will be gone within a year. Unless Favors and Rudy start tearing it up together, I think you almost have to look at packaging them together as part of a bigger deal at the deadline. I’d prefer to keep Favors, but not if it keeps the Jazz from being able to add a legitimate #1 option. Still hoping for a return to the Wasatch Front days.
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Hood can be electric but if his shot isn't falling what does he give us besides nearly shooting us out of games?
 
You know, if they want to do this, and I am not necessarily endorsing it, they got to do it now. I believe what Quin does for players is similar to what D'Antoni did for the Suns Players. Players numbers and performances look better in his system, and since he is always rotating guys in and out--there is room for outsiders to wonder what a guy would do in 34 minutes a night every night for their team. D'Antoni's guys got that same inflated value...until a couple of them left and flopped. No-one of note has really left the jazz and flopped on his next team.

Hayward's injury leaves everyone to guess if he would have soared or flopped without Quin. As a group, the Jazz role players may be at their peak trade value.
 
If Rubio can keep up his shooting percentages, great, but can he? If not do we go full Mitchell? I can't see a downside to having Mitchell with the ball in his hands as much as possible.

But Rubio has been hot... and he and Mitchell looked great together.
 
Ellis269 said:
Jazz should look to rent a guy at the deadline and then integrate him into the culture (like Joe Johnson) and hope to keep him with Bird rights. They don’t necessarily have to blow it up to make a move. . . but it does have to be the right move.
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Any specific ideas?
 
str8line said:
Hood can be electric but if his shot isn't falling what does he give us besides nearly shooting us out of games?
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Opponents still need to defend him so he opens up the paint even when he is not making the shots. Plus his defense is quite decent.
 
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