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I agree in principle- we have been burned before on letting this happen. I’m assuming though that Austin, having moved front offices recently, has a pretty decent grasp of the what/how teams are approaching the new CBA and judges the risk to be low. If he has misjudged that, it will be the...

Possibly, but the new CBA seems to really have breathed some paranoia into front offices re:getting aproned. I think there are too many examples of deals not getting done or players being overlooked due to money concerns, league wide. Jazz have miles of cap space and are still scared of spending...

The nice part of RFA in our situation is that I really don't think anyone is going to tie up enough money on Kessler to keep us from matching when that # is so ridiculously high it would be a poison pill to whomever offered it. If he shows to be that good, we'll match regardless and then they're...

And he’s getting serviceable on the offensive end, while our other players aren’t even serviceable on the defensive end. He’s actually going to be a long term rotation player in the NBA if he stays on this trajectory, which is probably more than most of us could have hoped for after his rookie...

Other than Keyonte its 100% coaching. Lots of players on the roster are capable, and even Keyonte could be much better, but through either incompetence or uncaring, the coaching staff hasn’t made D part of their priorities- if minutes depended on your defensive effort, they would be distributed...

Their multitude of bigs can handle and ours can’t really. Lauri right now just gumming up the flow the others had been developing- it’ll take awhile to get things working with so many similar players.

Hardy has been softer on Key verbally than ANY of his non-veteran players- with the leadership role he’s taken in the offseason, which will be hard to continue if he’s coming off the bench, and his improved passing, and Hardy’s lack of caring/emphasis on D, I just think he’ll proomote Key up as...

If Ace starts playing D/rebounding at Flagg’s level, we are defininitely not keeping our pick…

If Hardy can bring himself not to start Key, then this should b the rotation- I just don’t see that Key doesn’t start w/Hardy as coach…

Outscore maybe, doubtfult about the ‘outplay.’

Key -> Collier -> Clayton Brice-> Svi -> Harkless Ace -> Williams -> Niang -> Tonje Lauri -> Hendricks -> Love Kessler -> Flip -> Nurkic Least confident about Hendricks- he could easily start, just think Ace it going to get the nod, but could see Ace dropping to SG and bumping Brice to make...

He took a foul early in the second half when they knocked the ball away, so a close call, but last season it would have been a turnover.

My biggest takeaway though, is that we may have ‘hit’ at a much higher rate than we have any right to, and that is why the Lauri trade background noises have pumped up again. So many young quality swing players have basically made Lauri a luxury good - he’s just older enough that he isn’t really...

You try the various combos in preseason- but honestly I would be shocked if coach doesn’t include Key regardless of what’s happens on the court. He has consistently believed in him above and beyond what he has shown in games and singled him out for more praise and less criticism vs his other...

That would be the most Jazz draft thing ever to get bumped to ninth by one of our swap-mates winning the lottery and us losing the ability to take it from them...

Looks like a Xtra sized Danny Ainge out there...

If you take the best case for every Jazz player and worst case for most of the other teams, seven is doable, barely. But yeah, more likely a bit of a troll.

Thing is I wouldn't be surprised if that is just fine- again it isn't like I'm predicting a winning record- but I do predict we have a winning record vs the east and near .500 at home. We'll be miserable on the road vs the West and out of the playoffs, but we'll definitely NOT have the worst...

83-84 season was a great one for young me, finally seeing them climb the ladder into being a decent team- it was a special year. Just another cherry on top of the best year in history for all things American culture/sports.

Collins is the one we'll miss on that list. Clarkson was 9th according to basketball-reference and I expect organic experience/growth for our guard line to get up where Sexton was. Cody was the anchor and he'll either improve drastically or his minutes will be taken by others. Isaiah is the...