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We may lose the pick, but imagine how happy Ryan feels right now.

Svi + Anderson for Lopez, Beal, and a distant swap.

Meh…I don’t see much merit in your view. That’s a wild stretch. Players do not have allegiance to their teams like fans. There are no incentives for the players to play losing basketball and there is no tension.

This will happen eventually. The only complaint that will be had is that it didn't happen sooner. That's kind of the story of this FO tbh. They've made a million moves that follow the same pattern. Think about every time we got rid of/traded a vet. We were in a better position than the day...

If you're right, we're going to wish we had more L's. If you're wrong, we're going to wish we had more L's. That's how I see it lol.

This DAL tangent is mostly irrelevant IMO. There's going to be teams with more L's than us and we'll want to be in their position instead of ours come lotto night. Does not matter if DAL is in that group or not.

Correct me if you're wrong, but you're implying that there's this dilemma between playing to win and playing to tank? This exists at the FO and to some extent the coaching level. It does not exist at the player level.

Key would be MVP right now had we played more vets.

You're not deciding to tank now or later because of how you think you stack up against one specific team. You tank now because on May 12th you're inevitably going to wish you had more L's. If we're in the 8 spot we're going to wish we were 6. And if we're 6 we're going to wish we were 4. Its not...

I wouldn't call it half and half, but I can't see much of an argument to plan to tank later when you already can. The best time to do this was yesterday. When we inevitably do this, are we going to start saying that we're destroying our team culture and the development of our young players? And...

I don't think we went to far. Tanking the way we did is one of the best things this regime has done. Process wise it gave us the best chances to get the most out of the draft. If you want to do results based analysis instead, it's what got us Ace and I'm happy with it. It's hard to give a...

It's frustrating that our concern is about keeping the pick at all. Realistically, we should be maximizing our chances at top 4 just like last season. Like the objective isn't to avoid disaster scenario, it's to put our team in the best position to win going forward. I've accepted the fact that...

We will have only done the right thing for one year, and even if you're not process oriented, that one year paid of well if you're happy with Ace. We needed every bit of that tanking effort to secure him in the draft. We will care about this winning culture the same amount we care about the 37...

Oh wow, the one millionth report in a row says the Jazz want to winner sooner than later. Shocking.

"One of the worst picks in draft history" LOL

Yeah idk. Only the players and coaches could answer that. I know that players did not want to reduce to 40 minute games in large part because of stats, so you might have a point. I don't know what moving away from per game stats looks like though. I already have, but the players don't care what...

Lauri has taken a step back lately. Some of that is from expected regression from a hot start, but I also think he looks a little run down out there from so many minutes. When you take his entire 19 game sample size, I think he's pretty much on par with Year 1&2 as a Jazzman. More usage and...

I guess you'd have to ask the players and coaches, but I think the main reason why players play the amount of minutes they do is because it feels right on any given night. I don't think stars play ~36 minutes because it's optimal for their per game stat., I think they play ~36 minutes because...

I've made this spiel many times before, but I really hope the NBA and it's fans can embrace the cup and/or multiple competitions going on throughout the season. It's not a bad thing for some games to be more important than others. If the NBA must have 82 games, not all 82 games should count for...

Not much, but maybe that's because I don't look at per game counting stats much myself. I think the bigger issue is the pace of play and physical requirements of the modern game. Can't really be solved unless we reduce the amount of games played. When guys played all 82 regularly, it was a...