I too find myself caring less and less about the games. I feel like the Jazz management has become passionless since Larry passed. Greg only seems to care that the team is "good enough" to not lose too much money and win a little more than they lose. As a Jazz fan, the one thing I want is a championship. Either for the Jazz to be competing for one, or building so that they can. This team is doing neither. Its treading water. Sure, its not dead on the bottom of the pool, but it ain't no Michael Phelps either.
Its time cut the Cord on Millsap and Jefferson, on Watson and Tinsley and on coaches who would rather play Demarre Carrol over Gordon Hayward and Alec Burks. The goal is a championship, not to be slightly above average. That means DEVELOPING your youth and finding out what they actually are, not hoping that watching Big Al from the bench will somehow turn them into a capable scorer. Al and Paul will NEVER lead us into championship contention. Its been obvious for at least two years. No amount of complimentary pieces will change that fact. The Jazz have to acquire or develop a star who can lead this team. Paul and Al are preventing that from happening, so they must go.
Until the Jazz prove to me that they are serious about putting together a team that can contend, my interest will remain peripheral at best. I'm not going to pay to go to a game, but I'll show up when my work gives me tickets. I want to feel like the team is actually has a plan and is improving. I haven't felt that in a while, and until I do, I can see myself getting emotionally invested in them.
