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[YoungJefe]

In the end a more well balanced lineup was the way to go.

We were just way too small with two 6'1 guards and a 6'4 PF.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Andy probably thinks Clarkson would make the perfect tank commander...I tend to agree.

I feel like he might be the worst tank commander. He teaches the young guys bad habits. He doesn't play defense. He doesn't pass the ball and help young guys develop. He takes too many shots away from developing players. He is great at the 6th man role for a team trying to win that needs scoring bad and can sacrifice other stuff. Off the court he seems like a solid guy so I guess that is his only good part for that.

 

[YoungJefe]

Tank commander starting 5 would be: Butler - NAW - Bolmaro - Vanderbilt - Kessler

 

[Jingled]

I feel like he might be the worst tank commander. He teaches the young guys bad habits. He doesn't play defense. He doesn't pass the ball and help young guys develop. He takes too many shots away from developing players. He is great at the 6th man role for a team trying to win that needs scoring bad and can sacrifice other stuff. Off the court he seems like a solid guy so I guess that is his only good part for that.

I meant he might be a perfect tank commander in that he could lose them a lot of games

 

[Ron Mexico]

I meant he might be a perfect tank commander in that he could lose them a lot of games

He could lose games, but I think that is a pretty easy task. If we are going to tank, we should trade any vet with value. Develop the young players and bring in some cheap short term contract good character vets to teach them well.

 

[Jingled]

He could lose games, but I think that is a pretty easy task. If we are going to tank, we should trade any vet with value. Develop the young players and bring in some cheap short term contract good character vets to teach them well.

Oh, I completely agree. I was mostly just joking about JC.

 

[prodigy]

Did they touch on Mike Conley? Washington was a team rumored to acquire Conley but they did a quick pivot from it. Is it just going to be too difficult to move him or what? It feels like he has trade value but it would have to be the right situation.

 

[gomretat]

This whole situation reminds me of the podcast Locke did in March about team culture and also the tweet by Tony Jones when Joe was traded where TJ said something to the effect that Joe was the only person in the locker room who could say no or stand up to Donny. I think I am remembering that correctly.

 

[LogGrad98]

Why is everyone so attached to a player that never won here

That's why some of us favor trading Don. You know, the intelligent ones.

 

[Jingled]

Here's a little taste of House's craziness. I wish they would've expanded on it a little more.


View: https://twitter.com/lairddoman/status/1517340793861672961

 

[idiot]

Did they touch on Mike Conley? Washington was a team rumored to acquire Conley but they did a quick pivot from it. Is it just going to be too difficult to move him or what? It feels like he has trade value but it would have to be the right situation.

Agreed that any potential market for him has seemed to dry up. Seemed to think that it's likely he'll be with the team as a result. I think they thought the Jazz will move him if they can, but are pessimistic that this will work out. Thought that Jazz may end up trying to get him to be good with coming off the bench, but were uncertain whether that will work.

 

[fallenchicken]

Yeah Dennis Lindsey was really bad at the signing contracts part at being a GM. I think he got scarred from Hayward leaving over DL hard balling him over a couple of million on his extension

He really never got them right and they all spiraled to this upcoming rebuild. Drafting Mitchell and Gobert makes up for a lot… but he bungled Hayward’s extension so badly he left for nothing in free agency (the same summer we drafted Mitchell…if he had stayed one more year he might have been the perfect piece along Mitchell and Gobert that we never had—and we might not have been desperate enough to do the Conley trade), the Favors handout, all the free agency pieces he got never fit our needs and never panned out. His mistakes all seemed small at the time— the Hayward and favors stuff aside—but they’ve all added up, handicapped the the flexibility of the team, and along with the bad Conley bet are forcing this incarnation of the Jazz into a early rebuild. This era will be remembered only for what might have been, while a team bled to death from a thousand cuts.