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Reggie Jackson's year

GVC said:
Do you actually think the Jazz have too much talent at the 1-3 currently? As a coach, you give minutes to the players who help you win now and in the future. You let management worry about roster construction.

Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have a team struggling to figure out what to do with excess talent than a team playing fringe NBA players rotation minutes. Keep in mind, the Spurs have had loaded rosters for a while, and manage just fine. So far this season, Tony Parker is averaging 27 minutes, Danny Green is averaging 26 minutes, and Boris Diaw is averaging 19 minutes. Trevor Booker is averaging 22 minutes, Rodney Hood is averaging 30 minutes, Trey Burke is averaging 23 minutes, and Raul Neto is averaging 17 minutes.

What the Jazz need is less talent...What a ****ing joke.
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Thank you.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Please do the math for me on Exum, Burke, Jackson, Burks, Hood and Hayward then. I'm on pins and needles knowing how'd you distribute minutes if you were the coach.
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Burke wouldn't be in the regular rotation any longer (probably thrown in the trade), and Hood would be playing pure-sub minutes on average (16 or fewer mpg) unless he showed he is a consistent contributor (that includes his penchant for missing games with injury).

It's nice that Burke sucks less this year, and that Hood has shown potential. But neither of those things has amounted to much, and it amounted to much less at the deadline last year.

To reiterate/rephrase: Too much talent is the best problem you can have, and the Jazz don't and didn't have the luxury of that problem. It looks like they won't anytime soon, either.
 
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It's like the Jazz were hoping on the best case scenario for every player in terms of development, and so far teh worst case (or near worst case) has happened for a lot of them. Gobert has been out nearly half the season, Exum is out all season, Burks is going to miss over a month, Booker never expanded his 3pt game, and Pleiss is terrible.
 
King Cy said:
It's like the Jazz were hoping on the best case scenario for every player in terms of development, and so far teh worst case (or near worst case) has happened for a lot of them. Gobert has been out nearly half the season, Exum is out all season, Burks is going to miss over a month, Booker never expanded his 3pt game, and Pleiss is terrible.
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This pretty much nailed it on the head. Even dismissing the injuries, we found out Burks was average, Gobert didn't improve, Hood didn't improve. Zero player development this year outside of Trey Burke. Incredibly rare for an age group in the 22-24 range.
 
King Cy said:
It's like the Jazz were hoping on the best case scenario for every player in terms of development, and so far teh worst case (or near worst case) has happened for a lot of them. Gobert has been out nearly half the season, Exum is out all season, Burks is going to miss over a month, Booker never expanded his 3pt game, and Pleiss is terrible.
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This is a very good assessment.

Locke went on a mini rant about how those saying we didn't add talent were stupid because where would they have gotten minutes. There were small moves that could have been done to improve the team without touching playing time. Harkless, Lamb, and Dudley were had for nothing.... nothing. I don't understand why not take a chance on one of those upside guys instead of 28 year old d league guys.
 
Some of you play to many video games and don't know running a pro team is totally different. Get out your moms basement and go to the court and actually play instead of being an armchair gm when you blow at it.. Don't need players because you have some players. Whata fing joke some of you are
 
ncoloradojazz said:
Some of you play to many video games and don't know running a pro team is totally different. Get out your moms basement and go to the court and actually play instead of being an armchair gm when you blow at it.. Don't need players because you have some players. Whata fing joke some of you are
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I need to get out of your mom's bedroom
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
This is a very good assessment.

Locke went on a mini rant about how those saying we didn't add talent were stupid because where would they have gotten minutes. There were small moves that could have been done to improve the team without touching playing time. Harkless, Lamb, and Dudley were had for nothing.... nothing. I don't understand why not take a chance on one of those upside guys instead of 28 year old d league guys.
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We might have been able to get Lamb in the Kanter trade. They didn't need to involve Detroit. I think Jackson, Lamb, and Jerrett for Kanter would have worked, but I don't know if OKC would have done it. They wanted to get rid of Perkins. Also, a trade to Utah would not have resolved the issue Jackson had in OKC. He wanted to start. With Exum here I think he would have tried his best to move on from Utah. Not a knock on Jackson. He wanted to be somewhere he could start and get major minutes. Hard to say how that would have played out. Don't know if we would have tried to re-sign him or matched a big offer.
 
King Cy said:
It's like the Jazz were hoping on the best case scenario for every player in terms of development, and so far teh worst case (or near worst case) has happened for a lot of them. Gobert has been out nearly half the season, Exum is out all season, Burks is going to miss over a month, Booker never expanded his 3pt game, and Pleiss is terrible.
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Why did the Jazz lock up and end of the bench Euro for 3 seasons? What a waste of cap space by DL.
 
ncoloradojazz said:
Some of you play to many video games and don't know running a pro team is totally different. Get out your moms basement and go to the court and actually play instead of being an armchair gm when you blow at it.. Don't need players because you have some players. Whata fing joke some of you are
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Which pro team are you currently running? Just curious how you are qualified to understand what it really takes to run a NBA team. F'ing joke armchair GM, indeed.
 
My2Cents said:
We might have been able to get Lamb in the Kanter trade. They didn't need to involve Detroit. I think Jackson, Lamb, and Jerrett for Kanter would have worked, but I don't know if OKC would have done it. They wanted to get rid of Perkins. Also, a trade to Utah would not have resolved the issue Jackson had in OKC. He wanted to start. With Exum here I think he would have tried his best to move on from Utah. Not a knock on Jackson. He wanted to be somewhere he could start and get major minutes. Hard to say how that would have played out. Don't know if we would have tried to re-sign him or matched a big offer.
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A nuanced assessment. You obviously don't belong here. : - )
 
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