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What should the FO do if we are 0.500 by January?

If you were put in charge of the FO, what would you do if the Jazz were 0.500 on January 1st

  • Go For It: Use assets to add to the team and go for the playoff push

    Votes: 11 18.0%

  • Ethical Tank: Trade Kessler and Lauri for whatever we can get

    Votes: 8 13.1%

  • Stand Pat: Let it ride, see how it goes

    Votes: 12 19.7%

  • Unethical Tank: sit Lauri and Kessler for however long the league will allow

    Votes: 30 49.2%
  • Total voters
    61
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Not if you can read. You can't give them a lotto pick in the single digits if you make the playoffs
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I thought it’s top 8 protected so if we make the playoffs and are not a bottom 8 team, OKC gets the pick?

That tweet reads we should fight for a playoff/play-in spot so as to prevent OKC from getting the pick…except that’s not what is going to happen.
 
Miggs said:
I thought it’s top 8 protected so if we make the playoffs and are not a bottom 8 team, OKC gets the pick?

That tweet reads we should fight for a playoff/play-in spot so as to prevent OKC from getting the pick…except that’s not what is going to happen.
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Yes, but they wouldn't get the 9th pick
 
I wonder if there is anyway to figure in games missed to the lottery odds.

Let's say each team has 3 designated key players. I'm not sure how the league would do this, but for every game one of those players misses, you get penalized in the lottery.

That would prevent tanking due to injury, real or fake, to some extent.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Most interesting part of Lowe/Beck convo is Lowe saying the Thunder will be pestering the league if the Jazz tank too hard.
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Super rich out of them. And I can almost bet its already happened. I also think they talking to their buddies on Down to Dunk pod who sent out the Uproar tweet.

Just stupid. Like do you have to trade everyone away to "tank the right way". Feels like someone shop lifting yelling at someone that commits insurance fraud. STFU NBA and OKC. Let us live our pitiful NBA lives out okay.
 
Miggs said:
I thought it’s top 8 protected so if we make the playoffs and are not a bottom 8 team, OKC gets the pick?

That tweet reads we should fight for a playoff/play-in spot so as to prevent OKC from getting the pick…except that’s not what is going to happen.
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They’re saying that it’s better for us to just try to win to give them the #14 pick or whatever rather than give them the #9 pick.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Super rich out of them. And I can almost bet its already happened. I also think they talking to their buddies on Down to Dunk pod who sent out the Uproar tweet.

Just stupid. Like do you have to trade everyone away to "tank the right way". Feels like someone shop lifting yelling at someone that commits insurance fraud. STFU NBA and OKC. Let us live our pitiful NBA lives out okay.
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You’re right. OKC will be (and likely already is, as you said) all over this, asking the league to put a microscope on our injury reports. They didn’t do it last year because we weren’t in danger of losing the pick. Last year, it was probably the Wizards who triggered the $100,000 Lauri penalty.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Super rich out of them. And I can almost bet its already happened. I also think they talking to their buddies on Down to Dunk pod who sent out the Uproar tweet.

Just stupid. Like do you have to trade everyone away to "tank the right way". Feels like someone shop lifting yelling at someone that commits insurance fraud. STFU NBA and OKC. Let us live our pitiful NBA lives out okay.
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More like the person committing insurance fraud yelling at someone for shoplifting.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Deleting Nurk from the team and having no true center seems like the most obvious button to push
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Very much so.

I’m really trying to figure out how the Jazz can trade Nurkic and that seems impossible. With Jokic going down it would seem Denver could use another center but his price tag is just so out of wack with his production and the apron rules make it hard for spenders to make any moves like that.

I think they just need to cut him and have the stones to do it sooner than later if that’s where this is headed. There is no scenario they get value for him if they can even find a partner (they will either have to eat future salary, pay assets to offload, or both), so there’d really be no reason to take the matter all the way to the deadline.
 
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Saint Cy of JFC said:
Deleting Nurk from the team and having no true center seems like the most obvious button to push
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I think so. Flip's on-off numbers are pretty spectacular but I wonder if that reverses once he's a full time starter.

Will gets to see 5-out.

I just think Svi/Nurk/Love are generally fairly positive. In Love's case it seems more like he impacts certain games a lot but is generally negative. Either way we need to trim the roster. They are very precious about Svi though. I bet we could get a second or two for him right now and they just won't do it.
 
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