Jazz have terrible talent outside of the top guys. This is what happens when you miss on your late first year after year after year.
He is number one at blowing leads
That isn’t even the worst part. The worst part is when you realize it was a salary deal but then come to understand the future ramifications. We made this deal to shave $3M in salary, which added up to $11M with tax. To save that money, we traded our best locker room guy and two draft picks and picked up two non-rotation guys. Now one of those guys (NAW) is owed $5M next year. Go look up our salary cap. We are farther into the cap next year than we are this year while only having 10 guys under contract (and that’s assuming waiving Juancho’s non-guaranteed deal). So what does this mean? It means that $3M in salary to us this year was worth more than Joe Ingles and two second round picks, especially as we did not take back any pieces that actually help us on the court. So if $3M is that valuable to us this year, how valuable is that $5M we added to next year’s books going to be, especially being in a much-worse cap landscape? What additional assets or players will we be moving to clear salary but not improve the team to make room for NAW’s $5M (and nearing $20M when you account for tax)?
We didn’t take it to the rim. The spurs were more aggressive and attacked the paint. We chucked up a bunch of perimeter shots, gave the ball away, and just weren’t very aggressive.
Box score says he missed a shot.
