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What are your "we'd have a ring IF" beliefs?

Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
I don’t agree with this at all. Taking Magic was in the cards and we made a financial decision that would’ve taken care of its self with Magic here. And what does the fact it took Stockton and Malone 15 years to reach a finals have to do with anything. A team with those three legends gets to a finals or three and wins wins a title or three long before 15 years. Both should be in there.
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It's about proximity. If we're going loose, we could just say that we just needed to draft Clyde Drexler instead of Thurl Bailey, Jeff Hornacek instead of Dell Curry, and Vlade Divac instead of Blue Edwards. Boom, championship. The idea is to show proximity from the decision to a specific championship. I mean, what if we just tanked in '83-'84 to draft Michael Jordan?
 
Douchebag K said:
If Dick Bavetta wasn't a clinically blind 123 year old officiating in that game 6 and making such excructiating howlers that cost us 6-8 points. Or wasn't on the take, could've been either
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Oh he could see... he could see so clearly... he could see so clearly how his bank account would benefit from being the ultimate company man.
 
infection said:
It's about proximity. If we're going loose, we could just say that we just needed to draft Clyde Drexler instead of Thurl Bailey, Jeff Hornacek instead of Dell Curry, and Vlade Divac instead of Blue Edwards. Boom, championship.
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Again I disagree. We had the top pick we would’ve for sure taken Magic. That’s nothing close to saying maybe we get Clyde. Lol
 
The first thing I thought of after reading the OP was game 5 against Houston in '95. That team could have gone all the way, although I would have missed it because I was on a mission in South America at the time.

Also, as much as I like Alec Burks, it's mind-boggling to me that we didn't take Kawhi when we had the chance. It may not have brought a title, but it's still one of the biggest whiffs in franchise history.
 
If we traded for chris Paul instead of Mike Conley

I think Paul is just better and would have been another guy on top of gobert to whip ppl into shape defensively. I don’t like Paul, but I just always felt he couldve been more than Conley

This isn’t to take away anything from Conley, I love him and he improved us a lot
 
If Larry Miller would have opened his checkboom or if Malone decided to take his pay cut a bit early the Jazz could have gotten an extra piece. Instead he waited and signed for $1mm with the Lakers to chase a ring and got hurt.

The Bulls team salaries (highest in NBA) was more than double the Jazz salary in their two finals years (18th and 15th ranked). Hard to compete and get talent when ownership won't or can't afford to pay what the other top teams are willing to. It is amaaing they did as well as they did.
 
aussietin said:
If we traded for chris Paul instead of Mike Conley

I think Paul is just better and would have been another guy on top of gobert to whip ppl into shape defensively. I don’t like Paul, but I just always felt he couldve been more than Conley

This isn’t to take away anything from Conley, I love him and he improved us a lot
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Wow. Out of all the incredible what ifs in history, that's yours?
 
Instead of releasing Derek Fisher, the Jazz trade him and get some kind of asset back (which would include taking an asset away from the Lakers.)


Bogie's wrist doesn't get injured and he plays in the bubble.
 
Also, lately I've been thinking about how in 98 Stockton and Hornacek attempted a combined 3.0 three pointers a game (2.8 in the playoffs.) What if after coming to the brink of a championship in 97, Sloan decided to try something different and maybe have them attempt 3 three pointers a game each??? Is that too much to ask????

What if they shot 5 a game???


But that is taking the rules of this exercise a bit too far. Too much to ask!
 
I'll die on this hill alone, but I'm dead set if we had traded for Jrue Holliday over Mike Conley we would have one. Should have just gave the damn Pelicans whatever.
 
Fosto said:
Wow. Out of all the incredible what ifs in history, that's yours?
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I’m just a random kid from Hong Kong who’s been a fan for roughly 15 years, so stuff from before that time doesn’t really resonate with me, and I don’t realistically think the dwill/boozer or Hayward led teams was good enough to get over the hump.

I do think the Donovan-gobert teams could do it, and I think cp3 would have been able to push us over that hump. Just one of the things that always nags on my mind
 
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