I think so too. As much as I hate to say it, Bridges is probably the most likely FA if we end up using it to move forward and acquire a player. Williams seems very gettable with CHI's financial situation, and could probably squeeze Okoro away from CLE as well.
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I think so too. As much as I hate to say it, Bridges is probably the most likely FA if we end up using it to move forward and acquire a player. Williams seems very gettable with CHI's financial situation, and could probably squeeze Okoro away from CLE as well.
That would be backwards priorities in my opinion, but I could understand why Lauri and the Jazz would want to wait.
I'm sure Lauri would love to see some commitment to winning and so bringing in a free agent could help him see that and be more likely to extend.
From our side we might be interested in seeing how good we can be with free agent acquisitions before committing long term to Lauri. I hope this isn't the case as I believe Lauri should be extended whether we keep him long term or would like to trade him eventually.
I would love to sign OG. Partially I like him as a player and partially just to give NYK the bird. Chances are pretty low though. But he would be great here. No idea what the numbers are showing. My guess is he wants only the max and NYK is offering a little less than that.
Also it's funny to me how low a lot of people are on this message board about the Jazz. For me I haven't been this high about the Jazz since we beat OKC in the playoffs. I feel like we're in a really great spot right now.
IDK if I would say I'm high on what's happening, but it's undoubtedly one of the most interesting stages of the franchise with the amount of options the Jazz have available to them.
Thee Jazz Fan
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I’m not down on them but I hate how they’ve handled the last two years.
I feel like we sold our house that we had on 2.875% interest, and now we feel more rich because our bank account is holding all that money and it looks sexy, but now we can’t get into a house at 6+% interest and an inflated market, and the value of our money is being diminished by inflation while housing prices are skyrocketing.
But dat cash doe.
But dat cash doe.
Not me. I think they did very solid. Built assets, drafted well, developed some players well, kept flexibility, and didn't waste any assets. Also did not completely **** our team by going scorched earth. We have a borderline all NBA player that's a unicorn and easy to build around with a million picks plus a handful of very young players with solid upside.
We could not have tanked more the first year. The team surprised us and played better than expected and we got a great player emerge that's worth way more than any pick that year besides the very low chance at #1. After the break we fully tanked which is the only time we could have. We got great players that are arguably just as valuable as anyone after the first pick.
This year we went into the year with the same team that lost a ton. The only way we could have been worse was trading away Lauri, which is really stupid. Also this years draft at the top sucks and it isn't worth it. But we did move up as much as possible at the end and got extra assets to do it.
Jazz did a great job.
Thee Jazz Fan
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All that is why I’m happy. But we could’ve been further in the rebuild had we ranked better. It seemed we were stuck between making the play in and tanking
I assume you mean tanked. So who is this player that would have improved us? Outside of the top pick last year, so far no one has proven to be better than our picks and moving our rebuild faster. I don't see it making any difference last year outside of extreme luck to get #1. This year the draft isn't top heavy. It likely won't matter either and if we really want to move up for someone we think will matter it seems pretty easy this year.
I guess by that analogy Donovan was a house we were behind on payments so the bank was going to repo/he was leaving.
Gobert was the house too expensive to renovate and getting old. He was a huge contract, getting old, and not someone we could rebuild around. He needed stars next to him and lots of great role players to do something.
So yeah, I'll take the cash 10/10 times in those scenarios.
Either way we can just sit back and draft until we land someone who is a huge difference maker, which is seemingly the way to go and those players are coming from all over the draft lately. Or we can use a chunk for that and have a ton to trade when it opens up. Owning a lot of the picks helps them be more valuable since it thins the market. Supply/demand.
I think they have less options than they did a year ago since they are both farther away from being good (they were legitimately bad down the stretch, far worse than the previous year) AND have fewer liquid assets to build/play with. And the half-assed tank in ‘22-‘23 in particular really is borderline unforgivable.