Players I'm keeping = C: Rudy Gobert, C/PF: Derrick Favors, PF: Trey Lyles, PF: Trevor Booker, SF/SG: Gordon Hayward, SF/SG: Rodney Hood, SF/SG: Joe Ingles (RFA), SG/PG: Alec Burks, SG: Elijah Millsap, PG: Dante Exum, PG: Trey Burke and PG: Bryce Cotton = 12 roster spots.
Players I'm adding = SF: DeMarre Carroll (Atlanta) and C: Tibor Pleiss (FC Barcelona) = 2 more roster spots / 14 total filled
Bubble players left over to compete for the last roster spot = PG/SG: Olivier Hanlan, PG: Raul Neto, SG: Chris Johnson, PF: Brock Motum, PF: Grant Jarrett, C/PF: Jack Cooley, SG: Wesley Saunders. Front line still feels a little thin, but I'd expect Hanlan to stick and spend most of the year up in Idaho.
Roster Breakdown
Guards - Dante Exum / Alec Burks / Trey Burke / Bryce Cotton / Olivier Hanlan
Wings - Gordon Hayward / DeMarre Carroll / Rodney Hood / Jingles / Elijah Millsap
Bigs - Rudy Gobert / Derrick Favors / Trevor Booker / Trey Lyles / Tibor Pleiss
Top 9 for the playoff rotation this year - Gobert, Favors, Booker, Lyles, Hayward, Carroll, Hood, Exum and Burks. . . maybe Jingles over Booker if they're matching up a small ball team.
This is obviously dependent on Snyder agreeing that Burks fits the role behind Exum and that Carroll can be afforded. I think that the whole team would be improved by those two moves in particular. It also allows the team to maintain financial flexibility moving forward because any deal for Carroll wouldn't be excessively burdensome once the cap grows.
As early as this season's trade deadline, the Jazz should start looking to package Burke, Booker (for salary matching purposes) and multiple 1st round picks to add a disgruntled star or young player looking to get a big contract from a team that doesn't want to invest in them (ala Kanter). I'd probably save that deal for next year after this young team has spent a year together and have a year of playoff experience to evaluate where the biggest needs are moving forward.
