John Stockton has sharp criticism of Jazz

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John Stockton has sharp criticism of Jazz

Legendary Utah Jazz point guard John Stockton had some critical things to say about his former team in a new interview. Stockton appeared on "The Ultimate

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John Stockton has sharp criticism of Jazz

Legendary Utah Jazz point guard John Stockton had some critical things to say about his former team in a new interview. Stockton appeared on "The Ultimate

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Losing is not in that man's DNA.

 

[homeytennis]

Losing is not in that man's DNA.

He;ll change his tune if the Jazz signs his kids to guaranteed deals.

 

[The Fresh Prince]

It's crazy the amount of injuries Stockton should've sat out for but didn't.

Had he and Malone took a season off, and the Jazz tanked they would've likely found a star that would've got them a ring.

 

[FrenchJazzFa]

I agree with Stockton about the fact that tanking s...... But modern NBA have change the rule a lot and we can't compare old times/new times...only old grumpy people do that . We will see if DA strategy works out or not in the 2 or 3 coming years. I'm on the camp, it won't but will be delighted to be wrong.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

I’m not sure the jazz can compete unless they build through the draft with high draft picks. I mean we can’t seem to trade for a star and we sure as hell can’t sign them. Does Stockton say what he thinks they should do? Don’t have time to read the article.

 

[homeytennis]

I’m not sure the jazz can compete unless they build through the draft with high draft picks. I mean we can’t seem to trade for a star and we sure as hell can’t sign them. Does Stockton say what he thinks they should do? Don’t have time to read the article.

I think he was saying the Jazz should be trying to build a winning culture and tanking doesn't do that.

 

[gomretat]

Losing is not in that man's DNA.

Nor the DNA of his owners, his coaches, or Malone. It is what made them great.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

I think he was saying the Jazz should be trying to build a winning culture and tanking doesn't do that.

Sometimes you need to tear down to build back up bigger and better than before.

 

[seattlejazzfan]

stockton is ******* crazy. who gives a **** what he has to say.

 

[infection]

I’m not sure the jazz can compete unless they build through the draft with high draft picks. I mean we can’t seem to trade for a star and we sure as hell can’t sign them. Does Stockton say what he thinks they should do? Don’t have time to read the article.

I don’t know that I can speak for Stockton, as it sounds like these excerpts were very limited comments that likely were much expanded on (relative to your question), but I’d assume it wouldn’t be too far off to say something like, if you’ve just had the best record in the league, maybe not pivot to a mentality that you can just cash it all in for picks as the best way to build a contender. Especially considering that we’re currently not counting on a single asset from any of our trades to be a significant piece of a championship roster and instead are relying on our own picks that we’re continually tanking to improve (which isn’t working out to hot in the lottery).

So the question is which gap is more easily covered, the gap between where we were and contending or the gap between where we are now and contending. Because right now we have to lose in perpetuity until we can cover that gap, and it’s really our only option left to do so. So for me this is kind of like the Conley trade — it was absolutely the right thing to do in the moment. But we did (and didn’t do) a number of things before that, that we should have never been in the position to have that be our only option at that time.

 

[jazznik]

I’m not sure the jazz can compete unless they build through the draft with high draft picks. I mean we can’t seem to trade for a star and we sure as hell can’t sign them. Does Stockton say what he thinks they should do? Don’t have time to read the article.

That's like... demonstrably false? The Stockton and Malone Jazz were not built with high draft picks, out of Deron, Boozer, Memo and AK only Deron was a high pick. Mitchell and Gobert were not high picks either.