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That1UtahFan said:
I'm coming around to the Kuzma idea. Being on a team with LeBron mixed with being in LA everyone is expected to be an all-star level player. A change of scenery might be exactly what he needs. Swapping out Bojan for Kuzma lowers your floor but potentially raises the ceiling for the future if he figures it out like other players who have left the bright lights of LA (see Jordan Clarkson). You would save $5.5m this upcoming season and $6.3m the following and pocketing some draft picks in the process would not be the worst of things. It definitely would be a high risk high reward type of deal.
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The more the Kuzma idea is explored, the more I like it. He’s been straight up stifled since Lebron’s arrival in LA.

It just makes too much sense. He’s an actual realistic trade target for the Jazz, Donovan loves him, Kuz loves Donovan and Utah, he makes less money than Bogey, better size, can rebound and defend better, and I really think if Quin got his hands on him, he could be just as effective in this offense as Bogey.

This is one of those around the edges move that turns into a really big deal for the Jazz.
 
Favors is hard. I would like the Jazz to use his money for something else. On the flip side he was solid in the regular season, he was really good in the first round, he was good in the first game of the series, and then he was crap in the last 5 games.

Was that because he was injured, worn down, or schemed out?

We can possibly replace him for cheaper and possibly get a different style player. But again for the majority of the season he was solid. My main concern is he just can't stay healthy especially when it matters. He seems to be able to overcome this for a game or two in the playoffs and then he's done.
 
Jazzman12 said:
As we spend the early offseason bantering back and forth on what we think the Jazz should or will do in the upcoming weeks, there’s one mental road block that keeps popping up, reminding me that for the first time in 37 years of being a Jazz fan, I probably have ZERO idea of what the Jazz will do.

I realize that while we’ve seen a few different FO’s during that span, we also haven’t seen a FO operate that wasn’t ran by the Millers. The fact of the matter is that the Layden’s and their philosophies weren’t any different than KOC and his philosophies. Hell, that’s EXACTLY why KOC was hired. He fit the Miller mindset to a “T” and it’s no accident that Lindsey was the next man up after KOC. As a fan base, we’ve been spoon fed the EXACT same philosophy from our Front Office for the last 40 years because that mindset was the marching orders handed down my Miller ownership.

I can honestly say that for the first time in 4 decades, we’re in uncharted territory. In looking into Ryan Smith’s business philosophies, he seems to really key on one major talking point: Complacency will kill you faster that anything. It goes hand in hand with the age old mantra that the biggest enemy to great is good. The truth is, we could come up with 100 reasons why Larry and Gail Miller were fantastic owners, but at the same time, it would be extremely easy to come up with just as many reasons why this team was never winning a title under Miller ownership. To put it bluntly, they were happy being really good, and were not willing to put that at risk for the chance at being great.

I’ll readily admit that I have absolutely no idea what Ryan Smith is about to do, but I feel extremely confident that for the first time in ages, it will be something different. I think it’s pretty clear that Smith didn’t give D-Wade a REALLY sweet deal to own a small chunk of the Jazz just so he could show him off sitting court side all season long. Smith realizes that the status quo isn’t gonna win us anything and that it’s also the quickest way to run Donovan out of town. D-Wade is going to be a major player in how this roster looks going forward and I’m pretty excited to see what that looks like.
I think it’s very feasible that the 2021-22 Utah Jazz roster doesn’t have Bogey, Jingles, Favors, and maybe even Rudy anywhere to be seen come opening night. Ryan Smith is absolutely terrified of complacency and if he runs his basketball team like he runs his business, we’re going to learn that very quickly.
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Funny I've always heard that saying used a bit differently. The enemy of the good is the great. Which has always been used in the ways I've seen it to mean that in an attempt to be great you lose what is good... and never really achieve greatness in the process.

I guess that saying has been reversed in how you've heard it.

I do agree that we are likely in for an interesting time.
 
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