Off-Season Rumblings

[My2Cents]

Not sure why we would want to contribute to an OKC dynasty.

 

[Coach Ellis]

Hard to make a judgement when you don't know what the picks or swap were.

Not really. Eff those guys. I’m buying, not selling. someone will come available. Just gotta be ready to pounce. Things get very interesting if the Jazz can land a legitimate star to team with Markkanen.

 

[fishonjazz]

Not sure why we would want to contribute to an OKC dynasty.

I totally would if it contributed to a Utah jazz dynasty at the same time

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[Handlogten's Heros]

Not really. Eff those guys. I’m buying, not selling. someone will come available. Just gotta be ready to pounce. Things get very interesting if the Jazz can land a legitimate star to team with Markkanen.

There are like 3-4 teams that may be sellers and 3-4 teams kinda in the middle and a heap of teams that are buyers. There will be a lot of player movement but we aren’t really ready to be buyers. The best thing for us would be to be opportunistic… whether that’s as a buyer or seller.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Not sure why we would want to contribute to an OKC dynasty.

Yeah it’s just like how they contributed to the Clips dynasty. That was super dumb.

 

[UpArrow]

Yeah it’s just like how they contributed to the Clips dynasty. That was super dumb.

GSW says hold our beer (urp!)
We literally facilitated the first leg of their run.

 

[Shad]

hmm

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

GSW says hold our beer (urp!)
We literally facilitated the first leg of their run.

I mean sometimes we will do stuff and it helps us later while helping them now. We helped GS get a key piece but you have to act in your own best interest.

 

[Coach Ellis]

I’m a pretty big DA fan, but he screwed up big time by not tanking super hardcore after moving on from Mitchell and Gobert. I was all in favor of the tank, and wanted him to tear the team down to the studs and then burn it down to the foundation. One hard core year of tanking from a management side of things, and then let Hardy & company do their very best to compete and build toward the future. Instead, if feels like the Jazz jackpotted around not committing one way or the other and are in a rut now. More moves still need to be made, but it feels like two steps backwards before you can even think of moving forwards again.

 

[JimLes]

I’m a pretty big DA fan, but he screwed up big time by not tanking super hardcore after moving on from Mitchell and Gobert. I was all in favor of the tank, and wanted him to tear the team down to the studs and then burn it down to the foundation.

He did, though. He traded away everyone from that 2022 team away in the span of 6 months except Clarkson. The Jazz went into the season with the worst betting odds in the league and the second worse over/under for wins. What else should he have done? Insisted that Minnesota and Cleveland trade us sacks of potatoes instead of young players?

 

[infection]

I mean sometimes we will do stuff and it helps us later while helping them now. We helped GS get a key piece but you have to act in your own best interest.

If I’m recalling this correctly, there was originally the salary dump deal with Biedrins and Richard Jefferson where we got the pick that became Hood (after they ****ed us tanking when we could have had the assets to otherwise grab Lillard), but a few days later there was a separate deal where we did a S&T to Denver of Randy Foye that netted us a second round pick. It was that second part that landed GSW Iguodala but it all got thrown together as one deal.

We should’ve said no to the second part of the deal, especially since the second rounder we got we ended up trading for Shelvin Mack anyway, who (along with “Exum’s development” [that we benched for Mack]) ended up being part of the justification of why we could make a waiver-wire claim on DWill (the real reunion that should’ve happened) AND Bogut (going into a post season where we could’ve used a legit PG and big man backups).

Man this **** was so easy to get in real time.

 

[Ron Mexico]

I’m a pretty big DA fan, but he screwed up big time by not tanking super hardcore after moving on from Mitchell and Gobert. I was all in favor of the tank, and wanted him to tear the team down to the studs and then burn it down to the foundation. One hard core year of tanking from a management side of things, and then let Hardy & company do their very best to compete and build toward the future. Instead, if feels like the Jazz jackpotted around not committing one way or the other and are in a rut now. More moves still need to be made, but it feels like two steps backwards before you can even think of moving forwards again.

Outside of landing Victor in that draft who would have drastically changed our franchise if we drafted them after tearing it to the studs? I think we landed pretty solid players that draft. I would much rather have the guys we have and Lauri than pretty much anyone else from that draft besides 1 guy.