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The Jazz have found their magic formula to build.

Ferguson_Mellochill

Ferguson_Mellochill

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Step 1: Tank all the way to the bottom.
Step 2: Let the league hand you a top-5 pick, assume it's #5.
Step 3: Reach into your bag of assets and trade up into the top 3 or 4.

This year, the Jazz get their choice of Tre Johnson or Ace Bailey. They might not even need to trade up to #3 to get their preferred player.
Next year, the Jazz get one of Cam Boozer, Chris Cenac or Karim Lopez, assuming they can't get Dybantsa or Peterson.

Then the Jazz will have two All Star-caliber young players to build with. The reason this works is because this draft and the next one are very strong at the top.
At that point, Kyle Filipowski might be good enough to be your third guy.
Add a rim runner/rim protector (or keep Kessler) and figure out the PG situation, and things are really starting to move.
 
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Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
I’ve never been so excited for a season. We get to watch Tre vie for rookie of the year, and two other rookies. Also see how Collier and Flip progress. Should be fun.
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If the Jazz manage to trade the vets and lean into their rookies and young guys, I’d have more interest even if they struggle. At least that way we can figure out who are the long term keepers and who should get moved out in other deals.
 
Jazz are right back where they were in 22/23 and they really need to do now what they should’ve done then. Fire sale with the vets. Tear the team down to the studs and then burn that down to the foundation. They need to go back into hard-core asset accumulation mode.

Trade Lauri for whatever haul they can get for him. Use Collins, Sexton, Clarkson and Martin to add some more assets by taking on bad salary. Take whatever vets they get out of those deals and play a reverse version of bigger and better to stockpile some additional 2nds.

Front office tanks by leaving Hardy no choice but to rely on rookies, young players and 3rd stringers.
 
Coach Ellis said:
Jazz are right back where they were in 22/23 and they really need to do now what they should’ve done then. Fire sale with the vets. Tear the team down to the studs and then burn that down to the foundation. They need to go back into hard-core asset accumulation mode.

Trade Lauri for whatever haul they can get for him. Use Collins, Sexton, Clarkson and Martin to add some more assets by taking on bad salary. Take whatever vets they get out of those deals and play a reverse version of bigger and better to stockpile some additional 2nds.

Front office tanks by leaving Hardy no choice but to rely on rookies, young players and 3rd stringers.
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yep i have no interest in watching Collins, Sexton and Clarkson. At all I'm happy to watch young talented dudes struggle learning
 
The formula starts and ends with top-tier evaluation of talent and the team's ability to work with the talent they can acquire. We're not getting anything on a silver platter. I hope the heads that voted to draft Cody last year have or will indeed roll and that Ainge/ownership learned something (since their heads will not roll). I say that as someone who could see the whiff from a mile away.

Getting back to the point: if they don't want to draft the right people for this situation, trading up just exacerbates the error. At this stage, I think there is a lot to be said about bites at the apple because I have shaken confidence in the organization's system of evaluation.
 
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