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Dekker, Hezonja, or S.Johnson could slip into Ingles role. We know which one of them will be there at 12, so Dekker most likely. SG, PF, C roles are 100% covered, I see no minutes at all here.

The team's future will depend on what DL wants to do at PG. Burke and Cotton are probably life long backups. Does he want to wait around for Exum, or does he go out and get a veteran PG like George Hill to start and develop Exum off the bench?
 
Jazz4ever said:
SG, PF, C roles are 100% covered, I see no minutes at all here.

The team's future will depend on what DL wants to do at PG. Burke and Cotton are probably life long backups. Does he want to wait around for Exum, or does he go out and get a veteran PG like George Hill to start and develop Exum off the bench?
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Assuming Tomic comes over. Still think we could use a 5th big to develop, especially if he's a shooter (unless Jazz see promise in Jerrett). I agree re: PG. But QS could still have Exum start, play 6 mins and come out for a veteran. Vet could get equal or even more PT than Dante coming off the bench. I don't mind Dante starting. He's clearly the 5th option, which he should be and his role is just to push the pace and play defense. Hopefully he becomes a little more confident and more consistent with his shooting.
 
Exum/Burke/???
Hood/Burks/Ingles
Hayward/Hood/Ingles
Favors/Booker
Gobert/???

We need three more players.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Assuming Tomic comes over. Still think we could use a 5th big to develop, especially if he's a shooter (unless Jazz see promise in Jerrett). I agree re: PG. But QS could still have Exum start, play 6 mins and come out for a veteran. Vet could get equal or even more PT than Dante coming off the bench. I don't mind Dante starting. He's clearly the 5th option, which he should be and his role is just to push the pace and play defense. Hopefully he becomes a little more confident and more consistent with his shooting.
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What really is the point of having Dante start though if you get a flat our better player. If the Jazz make the playoffs they will want to start their best 5, and changing it up then would cause chemistry imbalances.
 
I agree with you that what we seem to need is some shooting on the perimeter, a big and possibly a 'vet' PG. I am putting the unknowns in parentheses.

Exum - (stopgap backup/vet) - Cotton
Burks - (shooting wing) - Millsap
Hayward - Hood - Jingles
Favors - Booker/(back up big)
Gobert - (Tomic)/(back up big)

Notes:
(stopgap backup/vet)* - I think right now we are forced to give Burke starter minutes as a backup. I feel like we can do better than that and if we need a PG to play starter's minutes off the bench, I'd be looking at someone like Cory Joseph or vet in free agency to take on that role while we are waiting on Exum to be ready for full-time starter minutes and responsibility.
(shooting wing) - depending on what level of SG we are able to get, he might move ahead of Burks on the depth chart(for example if by some miracle we are able to steal a Danny Green type of player in free agency), if we do it in the draft he gets slotted behind Burks and ahead of Millsap in the depth chart.
(backup big) - if we trade for our shooting wing(or if we give a lot of money to FAs), chances are Booker would have to go, thus we probably would need to draft a big - Kaminsky/Portis/Looney(if we don't trade the pick), or Jarell Martin type(if we trade the first round pick).
(Tomic) - that's the big known-unknown. Again if he doesn't come over this season, chances are he never will and we can scratch him off our minds forever, If he doesn't come we might have to look into drafting a center - Poeltl/Turner/Kaminsky

There are a lot of unknowns and a lot of possible combinations, thus it's really hard to build a reliable depth-chart for next season. One thing is for sure - our FO has some choices to make this summer... the good thing is we seem to have options to choose from.
 
Jazz4ever said:
What really is the point of having Dante start though if you get a flat our better player. If the Jazz make the playoffs they will want to start their best 5, and changing it up then would cause chemistry imbalances.
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What has been the point of having SA bring Manu off the bench for so many years when he was clearly one of their best players?
It's about chemistry and fit. Utah will have a couple of playmakers in the their starting-5 with Hayward and Burks or Hood. You have those two, Favors and even Gobert wanting to score. There are only so many shots to go around. Remember how we used to complain about Hayward being invisible in the 1st a lot of games? That all magically changed once Trey went to the bench.

If the vet PG was a 3PT shooter (like Fisher used to be alongside Kobe), then yes, he'd be a good fit as a starter. If the vet PG is just a better version of Trey, then he's a better fit as a 6th man when you need that player's scoring with most of the starters out of the game.
 
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Depth chart for the off season.
 
Stifle Tower said:
What has been the point of having SA bring Manu off the bench for so many years when he was clearly one of their best players?
It's about chemistry and fit. Utah will have a couple of playmakers in the their starting-5 with Hayward and Burks or Hood. You have those two, Favors and even Gobert wanting to score. There are only so many shots to go around. Remember how we used to complain about Hayward being invisible in the 1st a lot of games? That all magically changed once Trey went to the bench.

If the vet PG was a 3PT shooter (like Fisher used to be alongside Kobe), then yes, he'd be a good fit as a starter. If the vet PG is just a better version of Trey, then he's a better fit as a 6th man when you need that player's scoring with most of the starters out of the game.
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A vet like Hill plays just as good as defense that Exum does, and hits the 3 better as well. Exum would need to do at least one thing better to compliment the group, or it just doesn't make sense.
 
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