I think everyone here will be fine with the rebuild. If a team is rebuilding, they have the permanent guise of "building" toward a championship even if the championship is incredibly unlikely. Casual fans may leave, but if you're posting on a Jazz forum you're probably going to stick around enjoy a team without expectations more than a team that does. Happiness is about expectations vs reality...if you have no expectations, there's nothing to be unhappy about. If your expectation is that this is a championship contending team but they're not...yeah that's going to disappoint.
I agree that this team is likely to blow up. It's never as good or as bad as it seems, so I'm not overreacting to a bad streak. There's just nothing to suggest that this exact same team except with worse players than last year (no Ingles, Gay not a better player than Niang coming into playoffs) and nearly identical to the year before is going to have different results. It could happen, but I have no reason to believe or have hope that it will. When the inevitable failure comes, might as well change things up. This team will only get worse. Having said that, Ryan Smith and his regime has not been promising at all. Doing all the "bad owner" things from a basketball standpoint.
I think we'll look back and see how badly we messed up the Rudy-Don era. We didn't put a single roster around them that wasn't incredibly imbalanced. I don't think there's a good team with a more obvious issue than ourselves, and all we did was throw 35 year old Rudy Gay at it. The year before we threw Miye Oni at it. The cap moves, missing on late first round picks, even missing on every single one of their MLE's is somewhat reasonable...but the pure neglect for defense is indefensible.
