Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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This team has the look of a team that will miss the playoffs but be too good to keep the pick this year. We should be tanking. We need to trade JC and THT for a pickle. Trade John Collins. He’s decent but not for what we are paying him. Simply put this team is poorly constructed and not enough top talent. Yes, we may have to sacrifice a couple/few years of Lauri Markkanen, but if we don’t we will wast all of Markkanen’s time here to a point it would just be better to trade him. The jazz did basically everything I didn’t want to see happen. They should’ve traded everyone not named Kessler and Markkanen and Ochai. Conley also should’ve been traded last off-season as well we never should’ve started 10-3 last year. If not we could’ve potentially drafted a Thompson or dare I say Victor Wembanyama and still gotten Keyontae George. It could’ve been a generational franchise changing draft.
So now the jazz just need to stick their pride in their back pocket and lose every game possible. Get Hendricks and Brice Sensabaugh in the rotation and build for the future. This is where I’m at. I see no avenue to get markedly better trying to win games right now. We aren’t winning anything with Markkanen and a bunch of decent to average players. I’ve been r waiting for a true contender since the late 90’s we’ve come close a few times but because this team takes a shortcut every time during the rebuilding period we fall short of the mark. What’s the point of even having Markkanen when we have guards like THT JC and Sexton who play a lot of the same minutes. It reduces what Markkanen can do. Case in point two out of the first three games he’s failed to score 20 points because the guards are the focal point of this offense and most of the time they are winging it and playing off script just trying to score. There’s no offensive flow. This is why Key and Ochai should be starting and THT and JC should be traded and Sexton coming off the bench. We need Markkanen to be the focal point and in two of the three games he hasn’t. Yes, Ochai isn’t a ball handler, but having two or three guys that play with the ball in hand is killing us and Markkanen’s effectiveness in this offense. We don’t need Ochai to be a ball handler. Let Key do that. He seems to know where to direct the offense. We were much better with him running the show. Just think how much better the offense and Markkanen will be if Key isn’t sharing the ball handling duties with the likes of JC, THT, and Sexton out there with them. We may start to get tons of wide open threes again.
So now the jazz just need to stick their pride in their back pocket and lose every game possible. Get Hendricks and Brice Sensabaugh in the rotation and build for the future. This is where I’m at. I see no avenue to get markedly better trying to win games right now. We aren’t winning anything with Markkanen and a bunch of decent to average players. I’ve been r waiting for a true contender since the late 90’s we’ve come close a few times but because this team takes a shortcut every time during the rebuilding period we fall short of the mark. What’s the point of even having Markkanen when we have guards like THT JC and Sexton who play a lot of the same minutes. It reduces what Markkanen can do. Case in point two out of the first three games he’s failed to score 20 points because the guards are the focal point of this offense and most of the time they are winging it and playing off script just trying to score. There’s no offensive flow. This is why Key and Ochai should be starting and THT and JC should be traded and Sexton coming off the bench. We need Markkanen to be the focal point and in two of the three games he hasn’t. Yes, Ochai isn’t a ball handler, but having two or three guys that play with the ball in hand is killing us and Markkanen’s effectiveness in this offense. We don’t need Ochai to be a ball handler. Let Key do that. He seems to know where to direct the offense. We were much better with him running the show. Just think how much better the offense and Markkanen will be if Key isn’t sharing the ball handling duties with the likes of JC, THT, and Sexton out there with them. We may start to get tons of wide open threes again.