Are you kidding me? That was a very deep draft and right there in quality. Nothing too exciting at the top, 1 huge steal in the middle, but a lot of quality.
I mean if you wanna get franchise talent this year, you need top4 IMO. But fortune is a bitch.
I don't know what the Jazz are thinking, they might have a plan. I don't know what the role of ownership is.
But if they feel they can continue to build a contender around their role players or bundle some to get a big fish from another small market team that can't afford 2 top dogs, then it's going to be that way. Nothing you can influence. As a small market team you don't have a lot of luck on your side, and you need 5 times the luck of a huge franchise to be competitive in terms of contention.
The NBA ****ed up their talent pool by allowing too much expansion which they can't revert. The ping pong balls will decide at the end of the season if the Jazz have a chance to enter contention with top talent or if they are a good team designed to entertain casual fans and not those who want their team to be #1.
If the ping pong balls decide no top 4, then there's an outside chance you pick up a real steal behind that even though that's pretty rare. Otherwise you can try to tinker by moving parts or signing FAs. If that doesn't work there's some 5-9seed squads until the core getts broken up and the next attempt starts to rebuild. That's the lifecycle of an NBA franchise.
And if you feel bad about that, ask yourself how the fans of the Cavs, Pistons, Kings feel considering their front office's inability to build a team.
