Sure, every comment on JFC about free agency scenarios is an assumption/guess. But it's reasonable to think landing the two was very very difficult. Some reasons:
- Cap wise, it was impossible for us the create the room for both Brogdon and Boggie at their current salaries. We had room for one max player at best. Combined they make about 3-4M more per year than we could afford. For what happened to Neto, we can assume Boggie was not going to accept a paycut. Was Brogdon willing to play for 16M instead of 20M?
- The Pacers wanted to resign Boggie. Once Boggie commited to Utah, the Pacers almost simultaneously used the money on Brogdon. Owining Boggie's bird rights, it was plausible for the Pacers to acquire both. We didn't have that luxury. They just got cheap and didn't want to give Boggie an extra year (luxuray tax concerns might also play a role).
- Brogdon was a sign and trade, which point us to believe he already had discussions with Indy beforehand. Was Utah his preferred destination? Probably not. Usually, front offices do their homework before FA and they know which targets are more realistic than others.
- All in all, the Jazz probably concluded that Conley was the best PG available via trade or FA.
So, i think is safer to assume Brogdon + Boggie was pretty unlikely to happen.