What's new
By:

PLease stop

Park Bites

Park Bites

Well-Known Member
The Jazz are not in a win now position any more. All these suggestion to bring these aging vets doesnt make since any more. They Jazz need to look at developing what they have and that means letting the young guys get playing time and making mistakes.

To fill out the roster the Jazz needs to take flyers on player that are young and have potential.

So please stop suggesting that we sign or trade for vets like Deng and Bogut
 
To fill out the roster the Jazz needs to take flyers on player that are young and have potential.

So please stop suggesting that we sign or trade for vets like Deng and Bogut
Click to expand...

I said it last year and Jazz trade a lottery pick for 49 game rental of GHill and delay development of Exum and Lyles for the likes of Mack and Neto and Diaw ....

Jazz made playoffs and Hayward blows off Jazz anyways....lot of bad vision there.

Jazz will need points and you won't find out who will deliver them unless you play them.I think Exum is going to be the guy this year who really steps up ,he can blow by any player in the league like he did Klay Thompson in the playoffs.Also both Favors and Burks can score when they are healthy and they should get the opportunity to show if their 100% and ready.
Jazz have big talent ,health was all that held them back.
 
Crocodile Dante said:
The Jazz are not in a win now position any more. All these suggestion to bring these aging vets doesnt make since any more. They Jazz need to look at developing what they have and that means letting the young guys get playing time and making mistakes.

To fill out the roster the Jazz needs to take flyers on player that are young and have potential.

So please stop suggesting that we sign or trade for vets like Deng and Bogut
Click to expand...

Is there a single person on this board who is opposed to fill out the roster with young players with potential?
 
Locke suggested maybe Taking Teletovic into cap space and getting a Bucks first rounder for doing so... I'd be down with that. Use the other roster spots for Eric Griffin's of the world.
 
Jazz are pretty thin at PF if Favors goes down as well as back up center. I mean we have Bradley, but he isn't ready for primary backup minutes from day 1. Bolomboy looks pretty darn iffy. I suppose we could keep Diaw and plug in Griffin as the fourth rotation big. I think people believe that Bogut could be had for less than Diaw, so that makes sense. I don't understand why anyone would want any part of Deng. If that is what we are going to do with a possible trade exception, I'd rather not have one. Lakers aren't giving up any more assets to shed Deng.
 
The Jazz may very well have the best player development staff in the entire league and have managed to get their young players better while simultaneously bringing in vets and evolving into a 50+ win team that can win a playoff series.

Yes, the Hayward loss hurts, but it's still a team that has something that the entire league does not: Rudy Gobert. Their franchise player is still in place and btw, hasn't even entered the window of his prime years yet. This team also has both younger and veteran pieces around him.

Think about that for a second. For all the negativity surrounding the last 2 weeks, this is still a team that will make the playoffs while continuing to develop their young talent. Isn't that a novel concept?!?

When you have Rudy Gobert, you don't tank or even write off a season while you play all the young guys. That's not who this franchise is, and it's not who they're gonna be any time soon.
 
I think we can win now and play young guys too.

We could also take on aging vets on a bad contract, get some good assets, and then not play the aging vet we acquired and play the young guys anyway.

Most of our roster is already young guys btw. Favors, rubio, burks, hood, X, neto, mitchell, bradley, bolomboy are all young. Ingles isn't old. JJ is the only old guy really. (I assume diaw is gone. Even if he stays, that's only 2 old guys)
 
framer said:
Teletovic is one year younger than Bogut.
Click to expand...

I'm doing the opposite of what the thread asked cuz I'm a jerk on the internet.
 
I think we should try to grab an aging vet to help us out -- maybe someone like Deng or Bogut. Anybody with me? Maybe I'll start a new thread to discuss it.









(ok, I'm not interested in either of them. But I do think the Jazz can still "win now" and should at least try if someone decent is available and not just tank.)
 
Crocodile Dante said:
The Jazz are not in a win now position any more. All these suggestion to bring these aging vets doesnt make since any more. They Jazz need to look at developing what they have and that means letting the young guys get playing time and making mistakes.

To fill out the roster the Jazz needs to take flyers on player that are young and have potential.

So please stop suggesting that we sign or trade for vets like Deng and Bogut
Click to expand...

Sorry, I disagree. The Jazz cannot be in perpetual rebuild mode, because it just doesn't work. Hayward proved that a team can only control a drafted player for 7 years, so all of those players the Jazz drafted in the last 6 years will be waving goodbye when they become unrestricted FA's, unless the Jazz can establish themselves as a winning, playoff team. As great as Gobert has been for the franchise, I seriously doubt that he will tolerate playing on a lottery team for the next two to three years.

We got lucky with Gobert and the time for building a contender around him is now. If that means we have to bring in older, veteran players, then DL had better "get 'er done."
 
When you spend a lot of time talking about "team culture," your tanking days are pretty much done. The tank could happen, but it will take a lot of legitimate injuries.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top