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The official: Please tank properly this year.

Bawse Dawg said:
Alright, I traded Lauri in fantasy, as much as I enjoyed watching him, so that I could fully support letting him milk a minor injury for months. Let’s do this thing
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I’ll miss you Lauri, we lookin spicy now though

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Saint Cy of JFC said:
We traded for Collins because it was free salary and they probably thought they could rehab his value to being more than they paid.

We were in on Jrue/Dame, but we didnt do it. Just because they discussed things and got close doesnt mean much. They might have not pulled the trigger becaue they didnt believe they had enough pieces in place.

I find it hard to believe Danny really cared about winning this year if he didnt go out and get a PG, especially when we saw the difference Conley made last year.

There isnt a master plan. I think Danny is just hoping something good falls into his lap and he can go from there. Right now there isnt enough of a foundation to build on, so he is still doing foundation building.

You can possibly get a top 5 pick this draft, trade for a big name player, and sign a high priced free agent and you are a completely different team the following year.
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But with regard to it being a "stealth tank" type of plan... that is bogus. They may not have been as serious about winning but if you are tanking you don't take on 3/80M of John Collins and try to trade for Dame/Jrue.

I do think DA wanted to make the play in and also may have wanted to the pick to convey (if he could pick outcomes). I don't think he thought it would look this bad... I also don't think he's that butthurt about it, so the more likely move is to tank rather than try and save this year.

It really sucks we couldn't do the last two years in reverse but whatevs.
 
Good news is I legit think we can be a bottom 4 team without much tank effort. Might already be there. Wizards are an absolute dumpster fire... they are the only team worse than us on defense... and its actually pretty close.

I think Detroit will do some win now type of move as I'm sure they are sick of being bad... but I think Wiz/Jazz/Detroit are the leaders in the clubhouse for the tank jog. Its not a full race but maybe a brisk jog this year.
 
yeah, at this point there isn't much of a plan. DA wanted to go for the play in/playoff, but it didn't work out with trades, etc, and I imagine the jazz are worse than the FO though they would be even with the roster as is, so at this point they just let it play out. not an official tank, but they let it play out, the jazz likely get a top 7 pick, hopefully top 5 and if we are really lucky, top 3.

my biggest concern is that once clarkson finds his shot, the jazz start winning some games and we find ourselves in that 8/9 range again.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
yeah, at this point there isn't much of a plan. DA wanted to go for the play in/playoff, but it didn't work out with trades, etc, and I imagine the jazz are worse than the FO though they would be even with the roster as is, so at this point they just let it play out. not an official tank, but they let it play out, the jazz likely get a top 7 pick, hopefully top 5 and if we are really lucky, top 3.

my biggest concern is that once clarkson finds his shot, the jazz start winning some games and we find ourselves in that 8/9 range again.
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Good thing we have three tank commanders. Lieutenant Clarkson gets hot we bring in captain Tucker or sergeant Sexton.
 
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HeatCheck said:
<...> Jazz still likely need 2 more foundation pieces. Maybe Keyonte can be one of them.
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George won't be what he can be if Coach insists in wasting his time throwing another 3 guards on court around him. Just like Kessler young Key needs to play some normal NBA basketball. :(
 
Tremendous Upside said:
When teams tank and finally land or develop a top 20 player after years of being terrible, that's generally considered a foundation.
Lauri may not be a #1 option on a championship contender, but to say an All Star and one of the most efficient volume scorers in the league isn't enough of a foundation is straight up bizarre.
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Lauri should have been given a chance (real chance) to play with you know who. Then we would have had a real chance to be fighting for WCF this very year or next at most. And it would have been quick and completely, absolutely for free!
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Good news is I legit think we can be a bottom 4 team without much tank effort. Might already be there. Wizards are an absolute dumpster fire... they are the only team worse than us on defense... and its actually pretty close.

I think Detroit will do some win now type of move as I'm sure they are sick of being bad... but I think Wiz/Jazz/Detroit are the leaders in the clubhouse for the tank jog. Its not a full race but maybe a brisk jog this year.
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I think the pistons will get on a roll once Bogie gets back. His shooting ability will open up the game for everyone else. They should also get Monte Morris and Alec Burks back over the next couple weeks which will give them some firepower off the bench.
 
outerspacefan said:
Lauri should have been given a chance (real chance) to play with you know who. Then we would have had a real chance to be fighting for WCF this very year or next at most. And it would have been quick and completely, absolutely for free!
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Gobert?
 
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