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Conley/Mudiay
Mitchell/Ingles
Bogdanovich/Oni
O’Neale/Niang/Brantley
Gobert/Bradley
(I’ve left out some other names of course).

When I look at this roster, some things are made plainly clear:

1) our PF rotation is,,,,horrendous.
2) we need to re-sign Jordan Clarkson
3) we need a very strong defensive 1/2/3, as opposed to more of a defensive forward.
There’s been lots of commotion for another “3 and D” wing— personally I think we have this in Royce and we already have a big time scorer in Bojan. Our money should be going into guards and PFs. Bradley is fine, but an idea may be to cut him loose and sign Favors.
 
NAOS said:
I’m too pissed and lazy right now to get into the subtleties of the cap, our contracts, and then imagine how much flexibility we MIGHT have. Instead I see pretty quickly how little flexibility there isn’t.

The Conley trade is looking like one of the worst trades league-wide over a 5-10 year span. And it came at a supremely bad time with respect to Donovan and Rudy’s next contracts and the opportunity to vault the team into the next tier. Conley was supposed to do that, but he’s done the opposite: he’s hamstrung the defense while playing a miniature version of year-3 Rodney Hood on offense—for $35 million. It’s hard to come back from this trade—since he’s definitely opting in AND our org doesn’t have what it takes to move him to the bench (where he might actually help the team [ignoring the price, of course]).

In each of the last two seasons, I think we’ve tried to decrease our dependence on Joe. But they haven’t figured out how to do it. I think this postseason shows that we really have to crack that nut. Even if we keep him in the starting lineup, we need to find another PnR creator.

Maybe this is a part of Mitchell’s evolution? Dunno, but right now he’s resorting to too many dangerous outlet passes after his initial and secondary reads get cut off. He isn’t getting to that third read often enough, especially once he gets deeper into the paint.

But, considering our financial situation, I’m not sure how we find this PnR guy AND fix the defense. If there was some magical combination of moves (dump Ed, move Tony, shave off a couple of the 1.5Mish contracts) that allowed us to bring back Favors and sign a guy like Torrey Craig, then maybe we have a competitive defense again. You’d have to nut up and move Conley to the bench, though. And you’d need more from Mitchell on defense

Mitchell/Conley
Joe/Clarkson/Oni
Royce/Craig/Brantley
Bogdanovic/Morgan/Favors
Gobert/Favors

You can bank a lot on the defensive positional flexibility of guys like Oni, Brantley, Royce, Craig, Morgan, and time some extent Favors. These guys can be plugged into a few different spots and we can recommit your a defensive identity.
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This post kinda highlights what I’m talking about as well— cut out dead weight, get a #bulldog (as naos likes to call his defensive guards) then dope. Problem is, we may need to try and strike gold on a Dolt.
 
The more I think about it, the stronger I feel that the Jazz need to pull some serious **** to try and get Christian Wood. Our PF spot and backup C slot are both massive weaknesses on this team and if we can find a player that ticks off all the boxes - even if it’s a big gamble - I think you gotta roll the dice.

Obviously, such a prospect completely relies on the Jazz finding a way to generate a $~15 million dollar deal on the table which would require some ****.

My fantasy right now is that the Jazz can hammer out a deal with Conley to get him to opt-out/re-sign on a three year deal at a lower number and find a way to dump Davis/Bradley. And/or double S&T with Clarkson for Wood?
 
I thought what if our playoff bench was Clarkson, Willie Reed, Eric Griffin and Nate Wolters? Would we have been any worse off?
 
NUMBERICA said:
The more I think about it, the stronger I feel that the Jazz need to pull some serious **** to try and get Christian Wood. Our PF spot and backup C slot are both massive weaknesses on this team and if we can find a player that ticks off all the boxes - even if it’s a big gamble - I think you gotta roll the dice.

Obviously, such a prospect completely relies on the Jazz finding a way to generate a $~15 million dollar deal on the table which would require some ****.

My fantasy right now is that the Jazz can hammer out a deal with Conley to get him to opt-out/re-sign on a three year deal at a lower number and find a way to dump Davis/Bradley. And/or double S&T with Clarkson for Wood?
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Short of fireworks and living in our ****** reality, Jazz should roll with Morgan and/or Brantley as our backup bigs and re-sign Clarkson and see if they can make a shrewd signing to shore up the rotation.

If I have to choose between Clarkson and Favors it’s Clarkson and it’s not close.
 
get a Jerami Grant typa 6'8er who can swing 3/4. Since we don't have the money to sign Grant as a FA, we gotta get a prospect either via the draft or international FA and slowly groom him to the rotation. So far Paul Reed is the closest thing I can think of that fits the picture. A 6'9 dynamic forward who averages 15 and 10. The kid can shoot, rebound and guard multiple position.
 
Resign Clarkson, Sign Favors and Frank Keminsky with our 2 exceptions. Trade our first and a pair of 2nds with Davis for Brandon Clarkson And run it back with a healthy Bogdanovic.
 
dalamon said:
Conley/Mudiay
Mitchell/Ingles
Bogdanovich/Oni
O’Neale/Niang/Brantley
Gobert/Bradley
(I’ve left out some other names of course).

When I look at this roster, some things are made plainly clear:

1) our PF rotation is,,,,horrendous.
2) we need to re-sign Jordan Clarkson
3) we need a very strong defensive 1/2/3, as opposed to more of a defensive forward.
There’s been lots of commotion for another “3 and D” wing— personally I think we have this in Royce and we already have a big time scorer in Bojan. Our money should be going into guards and PFs. Bradley is fine, but an idea may be to cut him loose and sign Favors.
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4. Get more athletic
5. Get tougher both physically and mentally
 
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