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Denver is the model for the Jazz. You draft your top two players and churn through the draft until you draft quality. Trade for an Aaron Gordon. And get a semi flawed great player like Michael Porter.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
No existing top 10 player (or top 20 for that matter) is coming to Utah either by the FA route or via a trade, but that's common knowledge.

Waiting for one to arrive via the draft is a horrible strategy as well. Maybe just keep improving the team, keep climbing, keep making more and more noise.

When you get to a certain level, the stroke of luck you need to put you over the hump doesn't need to be gigantic anymore.
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I simply stated our biggest problem.
 
framer said:
This crap is so overrated. The only way you find out if you have a top 10 or 20 player is to make the playoffs. Do well, and "poof" you are a "top 10 player." The ranking follows success not the other way around. Jazz just need to win, improve, and use their assets well, and the "ranking" will take care of itself.
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Lmao.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Utah is following an OKC model if there is a model that is being followed.

Traded away stars to get a load of assets and got a pre-all star in the trades.
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I would say they are following a bit of their own model... unless they trade off pieces to sink down and get their "chet" the model isn't a great one to follow since Lauri just isn't going to hit SGA levels.

The model to me is get a top 10 talent somehow... draft, trade, FA is very unlikely so whatevs. This does not mean you ignore everything else like some state lol. This simply means you work to get a top 10 talent while building everything else... roster, future assets, cap flexibility. Even if you had a guy like Paolo or Barnes that you can squint and see a scenario where they become a top 10 or 15 guy you can really start to build and take solid steps forward. Lauri is very good and may be like 15-25 ish and you ride it out as long as you can to find another guy in his tier or higher to pair with him but at some point if it isn't lining up the best thing may be to kick the can down the road and move him for future assets. It gets harder to do because fans, gms, owners get restless. I'd say trade deadline next year or 2025 offseason is the latest you want to do it.

I do think its a shame if we are still in the middle of the road path for the 2025 draft as I think it could be pretty great.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I would say they are following a bit of their own model... unless they trade off pieces to sink down and get their "chet" the model isn't a great one to follow since Lauri just isn't going to hit SGA levels.

The model to me is get a top 10 talent somehow... draft, trade, FA is very unlikely so whatevs. This does not mean you ignore everything else like some state lol. This simply means you work to get a top 10 talent while building everything else... roster, future assets, cap flexibility. Even if you had a guy like Paolo or Barnes that you can squint and see a scenario where they become a top 10 or 15 guy you can really start to build and take solid steps forward. Lauri is very good and may be like 15-25 ish and you ride it out as long as you can to find another guy in his tier or higher to pair with him but at some point if it isn't lining up the best thing may be to kick the can down the road and move him for future assets. It gets harder to do because fans, gms, owners get restless. I'd say trade deadline next year or 2025 offseason is the latest you want to do it.

I do think its a shame if we are still in the middle of the road path for the 2025 draft as I think it could be pretty great.
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The OKC model or one of the tenets is also get guys that can handle, pass, and hopefully teach them to shoot. We don't seem as fixated on that concept.
 
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