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Jazz Free Agency Summer of 2018

Bolomboy, anyone? I think he would a great value signing. He's athletic, and a good 3 point shot, and great in the locker room.
 
I follow you fish, but i was just looking at roster changes.

I mean if you would have told me at the trade deadline or at the end of the Houstin series that everything would be better because the jazz would waive Jerebko and add Grayson I would have laughed. It is still not addressing the teams most glaring two needs.

It will probably be okay come October, but I feel it is still undone today.

Good point about roster turnover. Nothing happened positive in that arena depending how good Allen is. Jerebko will be missed a little I think. I always thought he provided a spark.
 
Normally Id be with you on this. I think the team should always be trying to improve somehow. But I can buy into this one year that we see if we can get some internal growth(bake the cake so to speak). Everyone is still pretty young. Plus we didnt see much of Exum in the rotation, and Crowder was new. This team was pretty dang good late in the season. Its worth running it back and seeing if they can improve on last year.

I would have loved to add Jabari somehow, but Ill take this too. Should be another fun year. Grayson Allen or not. If he can contribute its just icing on the cake. Im not even putting much hope in what he has to offer this year.

#baketehsoup
 
As for cap flexibility next season...the whole league is gonna have it. The story after the season ended was jazz were going toi use all of this offseasons flexibility to improve the team while Donovan was young and while most other teams did not have flexibility .

A. Not everyteam will have a max slot.
B. Of the teams that do have a max slot available none of them will have Rudy, Spida, and quin and will be coming off a 55 win season and another good playoff run.

The Jazz should be attractive to a lot of players. Money, talent, winning, fun team chemistry, great coach, loyal orginization, great fans. Want all that and a shot at a championship? Then come to Utah.
 
A. Not everyteam will have a max slot.
B. Of the teams that do have a max slot available none of them will have Rudy, Spida, and quin and will be coming off a 55 win season and another good playoff run.

The Jazz should be attractive to a lot of players. Money, talent, winning, fun team chemistry, great coach, loyal orginization, great fans. Want all that and a shot at a championship? Then come to Utah.

Forgot fry sauce.
 
As for cap flexibility next season...the whole league is gonna have it. The story after the season ended was jazz were going toi use all of this offseasons flexibility to improve the team while Donovan was young and while most other teams did not have flexibility .

And as Ron mentioned, cap flexibility can be used in signing/extending your own players and then trading for stars using assets.
There wasn’t much to be had by Utah this summer that was better than what we already have. I think the jazz will get a significant piece between now and the trade deadline of the 2020/21 season. I have faith in this franchise at this particular point in time. I’m drinking the koolaid hardcore.
Spida is a godsend for his franchise and is gonna make things happen.
 
Forgot fry sauce.

Lol.


I think people tend to have a mindset that has been forged by seasons past.
The future is going to be different than the past. I can feel it. The jazz are headed to greatness.
 
I guess I just don’t yet buy Utah as a free agent destination in 2019.

That being said, I haven’t really seen a move or a deal that I wish Utah would have done other than maybe buying low on Hezonja or signing Bjelica to the same deal he got with Philly.

I mean, it looks like we’ve probably decided on replacing Jonas with Georges. I just think Bjelly and Hezonja were both better options and could have been had on cheap one year deals
 
I guess I just don’t yet buy Utah as a free agent destination in 2019.

And that’s understandable. Like I said, the past has forged that into all of our brains. Mine included. We have never been a free agent destination before.

But looking at this franchise and where it sits currently with a fresh perspective that is unbiased by the past it just seems like things are different and will continue to get more different from the past in the next few years. It’s seems like there is more jazz chatter and buzz than normal. I hear guys like Lillard wanting to come hear and Donovan recruiting PG and mirotic having the jazz as a preference and so on.
Even if we traded for a star that didn’t necessarily want to be here at the time of the trade I believe that this current version of the jazz can win enough and make that star like it here enough to re-sign like Paul George (even though I felt that was an outlier).

I’m probably way to optimistic and not realistic but it’s honestly how I feel.

Of course I had high hopes for the core4 as well and looked how that petered out into unfilled dreams.
 
This is a pretty big deal. Smart is probably just going to sign his qualifying offer and play this next season. That means they will have Smart, Rozier and Kyrie all as unrestricted or restricted free agents next year. If somebody signed Rozier early but Kyrie and Smart take time, it's possible that Boston loses 2 or 3 of those guys.

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/celtics/smart-likely-sign-qualifying-offer-return-celtics

Agreed. Also, Smart is going to bury his agent next to Jimmy Hoffa.
 
This is a pretty big deal. Smart is probably just going to sign his qualifying offer and play this next season. That means they will have Smart, Rozier and Kyrie all as unrestricted or restricted free agents next year. If somebody signed Rozier early but Kyrie and Smart take time, it's possible that Boston loses 2 or 3 of those guys.

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/celtics/smart-likely-sign-qualifying-offer-return-celtics

It would seem to me that signing the qualifying option is a pretty good indicator that you are gone as soon as you are contractually able. I would look to trade him if I were Boston.
 
It would seem to me that signing the qualifying option is a pretty good indicator that you are gone as soon as you are contractually able. I would look to trade him if I were Boston.

Problem is the QO gives him a defacto no trace clause, so S&T would need to be done, but it probably wouldn't happen due to the rules. Basically, Boston is stuck with him unless they yank it.
 
Mbah a Moute to the clippers... this is good news for the jazz... next step needs to be Melo to the Rockets...
 
Houston determined to get Carmelo... that is just great... can we start a gofundme to pay for his moving costs?
 
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