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Early pulse check on offseason expectations

What should the FO do if all of options below were on the table?

  • Move clearly towards win now (big splash trade?)

    Votes: 18 34.0%

  • Start building up, but remain value conscious

    Votes: 21 39.6%

  • Prioritize value and only buy or sell if its a good deal (so keep doing this same thing)

    Votes: 3 5.7%

  • Prioritize selling and adding even more draft assets, but try to hold on to Lauri/Sexton

    Votes: 6 11.3%

  • Tear it all down and tank properly

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • Total voters
    53
First priority is to extend Lauri. If he won't extend then the choice is pretty easy, tear it down and go for a top pick in the 2025 draft.

If he does extend, then I think we owe it to him to push in and build a winning team around him. That could just mean putting a team that makes sense together vs value hunting. It might not mean adding a huge star.

Whatever the case, no more straddling the line, no more value hunting.
 
Right now it looks pretty obvious Keyonte/Lauri/Walker are the 3 most important long-term pieces.

The Jazz need to prioritize maximizing Sexton's value for the eventual sale. After this season Sexton will have two years left, so if you want to maximize his value in the trade, this upcoming off-season is the one to do it.

Trading Sexton will be tough because I still think is league rep probably drags down his value. It would be tough to trade him for anything less than excellent return for how well he is playing, but is that return out there on the market? IDK.

Also, figure out how to get off Collins if you can. Still wouldnt pay to dump him, but hopefully you can use his salary to upgrade to a starter caliber wing or 2-guard where the price of dumping Collins is baked into the cost.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
First priority is to extend Lauri. If he won't extend then the choice is pretty easy, tear it down and go for a top pick in the 2025 draft.

If he does extend, then I think we owe it to him to push in and build a winning team around him.
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The idea that Danny Ainge would ever feel like he "owes" something to Lauri is hilarious.

IMO Ainge knows he won't see a championship run with the Jazz. He's too old. He gets his late-stage kicks from playing the value hunting game, ****ing over other FO's in trades and hoarding picks.
 
They need to start using those ****ing "assets" and do something with them.

**** tanking, it's garbage and doesn't even work.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
The idea that Danny Ainge would ever feel like he "owes" something to Lauri is hilarious.

IMO Ainge knows he won't see a championship run with the Jazz. He's too old. He gets his late-stage kicks from playing the value hunting game, ****ing over other FO's in trades and hoarding picks.
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This makes me kinda sad... cuz I think it might be close to the truth.
 
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Nate505 said:
They need to start using those ****ing "assets" and do something with them.

**** tanking, it's garbage and doesn't even work.
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Tanking works. Its not fool proof but it works.
 
Either trade away Lauri and Sexton and tank properly, or use up the mountain of picks the Jazz have to start building a contender. These half measures where you end up with the 10th pick suck.
 
Nate505 said:
Who is the last great championship team that's tanked? The Spurs? Every other team has either hit below the top 5 of the draft of got great FAs/trades
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There are levels to tanking. Lots of teams have done it here and there. But yeah there was a team that won 5 titles for tanking their asses off. Just got a generational talent by doing it again.

All paths to building a title team are fraught with peril and failure. Everyone is currently point to OKC as the "model" they tanked. Every model is a low probability model. Not sure there will ever be an MVP drafted in the middle of the first or second round again. We aren't getting Lebron in FA. Toronto doesn't win a title if an MVP level player isn't injured and available for cheap. If you want to build a team that is like a top 5 team tanking works just like a lot of other methods can work. Just like the other methods it is not fool proof.
 
Fosto said:
Why do you think that? Don't tell me that scouting has magically become much more reliable. Been hearing this for two decades.
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I just think the overwhelming majority of mvp talent has come from the top 10 or so picks historically. Mid first round may do it again Nash was around there. Kobe too. I just think if you are talking championship or bust you are going to be relying on an outlier event somewhere. So simply saying tanking doesn't work isn't right.
 
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