Report Card Time (team grades)

[Jack Strop]

Lindsey did the best he could in the summer having to wait for Hayward's manifesto to go to press.
I give hin a B for his indeciveness at the deadline. You either go for it, or you dont. He messed up not trading a pick for Mirotic. Could have got that deal done before Cousins got hurt.
And he limits his ability to go after a big ticket free agent by bringing in Crowder and tieing up those dollars.
Jae's a good player, but Utah has that in Thabo and O'Neale. Utah needs an impact player at the 4 and another wing who can shoot.

Donovan gets an A-. Amazing year, but he shoots too many 3's at a low percentage and is often a bit reckless (ie. Turnovers) down the stretch. Not throwing shade, just that an A+ means amazing in everything.

Exum has to be either Incomplete or lower. He's had some very good games, but also some sub-par ones.

Rest of grades seem fair enough. Crowder may be a bit high, though. Reminds me of Trevor Booker. We love the attitude and toughness but he cant shoot.

 

[SoUjazzfan]

I pretty much agree fish, with the exception of Crowder and Jerebko. I think Jonas fills his role really well and we expect more than his talent allows, hence a B from me. Crowder is way too quick to shoot the three early in the clock with someone in his face. I think he'd be better suited to pump and drive more often. I'd grade him down to a B- because he does generally bring some tough defense. Plus when someone goes after one of our guys he's right there. On second thought, that would keep him at a solid B to B+

 

[fishonjazz]

You would have traded Hayward in the middle of the season when we were playing great, for a draft pick when there was no reason to assume that we didn’t have a good chance of keeping him???? Really??

Good cheap contracts giving us good minutes. What free agents would have been better pickups at similar deals?

Well we do have one glaring hole/weakness. Bench scoring. Could use a lou williams/Jamaal crawford/Rodney hood type player. I think that's enough to go from an A to A-

As for hayward I was never that high on him and wanted the jazz to trade him before last year for a top pick. (I remember mentioning Jamaal murray, buddy heild, and a few others) I know you will think that is dumb so will just stop you there. What DL could have done with the hayward situation is read hayward better (he was around him quite often I would assume) and go after someone else knowing hayward was gone.

Anywho, A- is a pretty good grade imo. Nothing to make much of a fuss about really but I can edit the OP and give him an A if you are unhappy with my explanation and really want me to give him an A. I'm fine with that. I see it as splitting hairs really.

 

[fishonjazz]

Lindsey did the best he could in the summer having to wait for Hayward's manifesto to go to press.
I give hin a B for his indeciveness at the deadline. You either go for it, or you dont. He messed up not trading a pick for Mirotic. Could have got that deal done before Cousins got hurt.
And he limits his ability to go after a big ticket free agent by bringing in Crowder and tieing up those dollars.
Jae's a good player, but Utah has that in Thabo and O'Neale. Utah needs an impact player at the 4 and another wing who can shoot.

Donovan gets an A-. Amazing year, but he shoots too many 3's at a low percentage and is often a bit reckless (ie. Turnovers) down the stretch. Not throwing shade, just that an A+ means amazing in everything.

Exum has to be either Incomplete or lower. He's had some very good games, but also some sub-par ones.

Rest of grades seem fair enough. Crowder may be a bit high, though. Reminds me of Trevor Booker. We love the attitude and toughness but he cant shoot.

I agree about crowder. Probably my toughest one to grade. Sometimes I cringe when he is in and other times I have confidence in him.
I probably should have gave him a C. I just gave him a break due to the new team adjustment.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Well we do have one glaring hole/weakness. Bench scoring. Could use a lou williams/Jamaal crawford/Rodney hood type player. I think that's enough to go from an A to A-

As for hayward I was never that high on him and wanted the jazz to trade him before last year for a top pick. (I remember mentioning Jamaal murray, buddy heild, and a few others) I know you will think that is dumb so will just stop you there. What DL could have done with the hayward situation is read hayward better (he was around him quite often I would assume) and go after someone else knowing hayward was gone.

Anywho, A- is a pretty good grade imo. Nothing to make much of a fuss about really but I can edit the OP and give him an A if you are unhappy with my explanation and really want me to give him an A. I'm fine with that. I see it as splitting hairs really.

I mean they are your grades. Maybe I overreacted, if so, sorry. But it does seem weird to me that Lindsey takes blame for Hayward, it sounds like it was basically 50/50 so what can you really do except hope he chooses you? Maybe now it's easy to say we should have just gotten anything for him, but it's not like we knew that we'd be getting a superstar to replace our star. Our team was made around Hayward, we had to try to keep him.

I also give him credit for what he didn't do. No huge contract for Hill, no desperation Gallinari signing. Thank god for that.

 

[JAZZGASM]

I mean they are your grades. Maybe I overreacted, if so, sorry. But it does seem weird to me that Lindsey takes blame for Hayward, it sounds like it was basically 50/50 so what can you really do except hope he chooses you? Maybe now it's easy to say we should have just gotten anything for him, but it's not like we knew that we'd be getting a superstar to replace our star. Our team was made around Hayward, we had to try to keep him.

I also give him credit for what he didn't do. No huge contract for Hill, no desperation Gallinari signing. Thank god for that.

I think Hill dug his own grave. There was a large offer on the table for Hill. He wanted more. And the Gallo trade was already in place/occurred the same day Hayward left. Can't give Lindsey credit for much of which he couldn't control. Can't blame him for the Hayward fiasco either. He was put in a tough position due to Hayward's timing, and did pretty good with the hand dealt to him.

 

[RJF]

Lindsey did the best he could in the summer having to wait for Hayward's manifesto to go to press.
I give hin a B for his indeciveness at the deadline. You either go for it, or you dont. He messed up not trading a pick for Mirotic. Could have got that deal done before Cousins got hurt.
And he limits his ability to go after a big ticket free agent by bringing in Crowder and tieing up those dollars.
Jae's a good player, but Utah has that in Thabo and O'Neale. Utah needs an impact player at the 4 and another wing who can shoot.

Donovan gets an A-. Amazing year, but he shoots too many 3's at a low percentage and is often a bit reckless (ie. Turnovers) down the stretch. Not throwing shade, just that an A+ means amazing in everything.

Exum has to be either Incomplete or lower. He's had some very good games, but also some sub-par ones.

Rest of grades seem fair enough. Crowder may be a bit high, though. Reminds me of Trevor Booker. We love the attitude and toughness but he cant shoot.

Thabo is 33. Crowder is 27. Crowder has room to grow and will give more to this team than even a healthy Thabo could.

 

[fishonjazz]

I mean they are your grades. Maybe I overreacted, if so, sorry. But it does seem weird to me that Lindsey takes blame for Hayward, it sounds like it was basically 50/50 so what can you really do except hope he chooses you? Maybe now it's easy to say we should have just gotten anything for him, but it's not like we knew that we'd be getting a superstar to replace our star. Our team was made around Hayward, we had to try to keep him.

I also give him credit for what he didn't do. No huge contract for Hill, no desperation Gallinari signing. Thank god for that.

Fair enough. I do still see a lack of bench scoring as a hole on the roster but all in all im blown away by everything about this team. I thought everyone would be saying all my grades were too high lol.

 

[nateboz]

I think Rodney Hood should get a grade. He's a C- to me. He was always "injured" and played very streaky.

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[Sneakers]

People are still kvetching about the Mirotic non-trade? He's been shooting 30% from 3 since the trade lol..... cmon ya'll. You wanted to give up a first for a guy on an unprecedented hot streak

 

[fishonjazz]

I think Rodney Hood should get a grade. He's a C- to me. He was always "injured" and played very streaky.

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Ya I considered giving hood and jj a grade.
C- sounds right to me. For both of em

 

[Coach Ellis]

DL also added Rubio for peanuts.

IMO, the Jazz are a dynamic SF away from being contenders (after the Warriors are broken up) and most guys can see that in the making.

I hope they make the playoffs and show out well there so that it becomes even more obvious to everyone that they’re headed to contending status.

Should open up more opportunities to add talent here in the next few offseasons.