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At least we can sell hope and talk ourselves into them, as we don't have enough data points to say yay nor nay definitively. I think it'll be harder to sell hope for someone for whom we have four years of data points, pointing mostly downward. The team that signs Kuminga is the team that...

Age is irrelevant if someone isn't very good. There are lots of so-so 20 somethings in the league. Why not stock our roster with them if that's your idea of team building? He's had 4 years to prove himself, and rather than doing so, he's played himself into a benchwarmer role. At THAT's who you...

Why the hell would the Jazz trade for Kuminga? How does using cap money to acquire a guy who couldn't get playing time on a team the desperately needed more wing talent and who's never come close to sniffing his potential after four years in the league help the Jazz win? Ainge can't be that...

I don't put that on Ace, I put that on whatever scheme the Jazz were running. I assume their plans are more than to use him as a corner three guy, but that's pretty much what he was in the second half. It's up to the coaching staff to figure out how best to utilize and develop him. But, it's...

A few observations: 1. In the second half, the Jazz buried Ace at the corner 3 and ran almost zero actions for him. He was largely a bystander. When he did get involved, he seemed to be forcing it rather than playing in the flow of the game, as the flow had largely frozen him out. I hope they...

Basing the success of one's strategy on getting lucky may work for dance hall lotharios, but it's not necessarily the most reliable strategy for building a winning basketball team. I infer from Houston's action that they were sick of losing, didn't see winning in their near future with the...

I don't get this insistence that the Jazz absolutely MUST be on a certain timeline. There's no reason, in theory at least, why the Jazz couldn't pivot reasonably quickly if a core emerged in this or next season, while maintaining the flexibility and assets to make major or incremental moves that...

I'd hate to be the team building around Scoot and Holland. It may be bleak in Utah, but a team built around those two would be as if not more bleak.

I've been to San Antonio and Sacramento. Sacramento is pretty good, is near the mountains and outdoor opportunities, is much less expensive than the Bay Area (or was), and not a bad place at all. San Antonio, IMHO, is a dump. Didn't like it at all. I generally strongly dislike Texas. The one...

I hope so. Unlike some (cough cough Gordon Hayward), I like to see former Jazzmen succeed (although I never wanted Hayward to get injured, just suck). Juzang is a good shooter, so I hope he finds a gig somewhere else. He'll never be more than a serviceable role player, but as we saw with OKC...

I'm not a GM. I don't get paid to make those decisions, nor do I posses a special knowledge or skill set that makes me ideally suited to make them. I'm only observing that the tanking discourse here (and elsewhere in the NBA mediascape) has reached absurd levels of irrational confidence in...

And if we get none of those guys, then another "one more year fellas?" I'm beginning to come around to the opinion that speculating in the draft lottery delivers a similar dopamine hit that gambling at the Vegas tables delivers. The excitement of potential draft wins and even the near wins...

How does that make us better and able to pivot to contention anytime in the next century?

It depends on what you mean by "win the trade." Presumably, the FO acts rationally in that it only makes a trade that it believes makes the team better off, whether in short, medium, or long term. Thus, almost by definition, it "wins" every trade. However, if you're suggesting that the FO should...

You'd think Charlotte would be done with tanking by now. Multiple lottery and top 5 picks over the last 21 years with only three first round exists to show for it. And people STILL think Charlotte should be tanking. This highlights just how absurd and detached from reality the tanking obsession...

True, this deal isn't franchise altering. And if it's a bad trade, it's not a horrifically bad trade with significant costs. So, not worth THAT much angst from a team building POV (especially since he was unlikely to be resigned at the end of his contract). It may actually be good for Sexton, as...

Adios to an underrated and under appreciated Colin Sexton. The trade has the hallmarks of a player dump; traded for the detritus that Charlotte didn't want, plus we had to give them something in return. Criminally uneven trade. He's a baller that deserves better. I hope he has an opportunity to...

If by "clearly something" you mean clearly a ginned up story aimed at getting eyeballs and clicks but otherwise overblown, then, yes, it was clearly something.

Can we all now admit that this whole Ace Bailey "saga" was a largely ginned up to maximize clicks nothing burger? All the hyperventilating about "will he or won't he" was just so much wasted breath and anxiety. The outcome was never really in doubt. I understand the desire for controversy to...

When I was young, I took books to church with me to read. As I grew older, I took magazines (Sunstone, Dialogue, Time, Newsweek. etc.). Anything to stave off the boredom of hearing the same thing for the 1,000th time. The talks are dull and insipid, the music droning and uninspiring, the lessons...