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Report: #5, Favors, Burks for Cavs' #1 pick

Yay or Nay?

  • Yay

    Votes: 68 56.7%

  • Nay

    Votes: 52 43.3%
  • Total voters
    120
E.J. Wells said:
Done. Of course, you don't post much, but it will be nice to see my custom sig on all of them. This is for 365 days, FYI.

Also, to all of you who thing Tomic is some sort of answer... I laugh in your face. That guy is worse than anyone on our current roster.
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Okay, you're on. If we trade up for Wiggins or Parker, I'll be pleased enough that I don't care what my sig looks like.
 
Personally I like the potential of a starting unit of Burke, Hayward, Gordon, Favors, Kanter with Burks as the sixth man more than I do a starting line-up of Burke, Hayward, Wiggins/Parker, Kanter, Gobert/Tomic with Jack as the sixth man.

I'd stay at 5, as I truly believe Gordon has the highest ceiling of the top 5 picks in the draft. He could be a smaller version of Blake Griffin.
 
Guys...Favors, Burks and any other current jazzman are loved and wanted on this team. But ultimately they are not the franchise player we need and are ultimately replaceable.

We must, MUST, get that franchise player. Wiggins could be that guy. Once you have him you can put the right pieces around him and build a champion.
 
Stoked said:
Guys...Favors, Burks and any other current jazzman are loved and wanted on this team. But ultimately they are not the franchise player we need and are ultimately replaceable.

We must, MUST, get that franchise player. Wiggins could be that guy. Once you have him you can put the right pieces around him and build a champion.
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The same probably goes for whoever we get with the 5th pick.
 
Jeffrey32 said:
Personally I like the potential of a starting unit of Burke, Hayward, Gordon, Favors, Kanter with Burks as the sixth man more than I do a starting line-up of Burke, Hayward, Wiggins/Parker, Kanter, Gobert/Tomic with Jack as the sixth man.

I'd stay at 5, as I truly believe Gordon has the highest ceiling of the top 5 picks in the draft. He could be a smaller version of Blake Griffin.
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I'm sure the cap space will brighten up that starting lineup a bit.
 
Avery said:
Okay, you're on. If we trade up for Wiggins or Parker, I'll be pleased enough that I don't care what my sig looks like.
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You guys should make part of the bet be complimenting me in the sig. Dude, that would totally burn the other guy up!
 
Jeffrey32 said:
Personally I like the potential of a starting unit of Burke, Hayward, Gordon, Favors, Kanter with Burks as the sixth man more than I do a starting line-up of Burke, Hayward, Wiggins/Parker, Kanter, Gobert/Tomic with Jack as the sixth man.

I'd stay at 5, as I truly believe Gordon has the highest ceiling of the top 5 picks in the draft. He could be a smaller version of Blake Griffin.
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1. Give Gobert 2 years of solid playing time and development/coaching and I do believe he could be better than Favors at the Center position.


2. Jarrett Jack was one of the best 6th man a couple of years ago with the GSW.


3. If we suck again next year, simply grab either Karl Towns or Okafor and we won't need Kanter.


That's how not to 'skip steps' and we should be set to shoot for Chips in '17/'18.
 
bigmike said:
I love moving Trey + #5 for Jabari. We'd just be back to square one at point guard.
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I disagree! theres some substance to this years free agent PG crop.

Kyle Lowry is Unrestricted and played like a boss in the playoffs vs Deron. Hes 28, i dont mind him on a 3 year deal, hes really tough.

Isaiah Thomas is being shopped around, the Jazz could try to sign him or Eric Bledsoe to an offer sheet.

The 'fallback' PG that Ive been pimping as a possible starter in the FA threads is Patty Mills.

Shaun Livingston shouldnt be signed as a starter but he could give the Jazz quality minutes aswell.

Im not opposed to taking a flier on Greivis Vasquez either, tbh.
 
Hotttnickkk said:
1. Give Gobert 2 years of solid playing time and development/coaching and I do believe he could be better than Favors at the Center position.


2. Jarrett Jack was one of the best 6th man a couple of years ago with the GSW.


3. If we suck again next year, simply grab either Karl Towns or Okafor and we won't need Kanter.


That's how not to 'skip steps' and we should be set to shoot for Chips in '17/'18.
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Cause we can guarantee that…right?
 
Hack said:
Not collect 15 average players.
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do you have some kind of time machine or proof that jabari and wiggins wont just be about the same good as our current young lottery picks?

Also how do we know what the ceiling of our current players is?

its a big risk to trade that much...... having said that, i wont be pissed if the trade goes down. i will be cautiously optimistic
 
fishonjazz said:
do you have some kind of time machine or proof that jabari and wiggins wont just be about the same good as our current young lottery picks?

Also how do we know what the ceiling of our current players is?

its a big risk to trade that much...... having said that, i wont be pissed if the trade goes down. i will be cautiously optimistic
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High risk high reward.
 
Avery said:
Okay, you're on. If we trade up for Wiggins or Parker, I'll be pleased enough that I don't care what my sig looks like.
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Hold the phone, Salty, you said "I will sig bet anybody that we move up no higher than #5" -- nothing about Fatty or Wigga.
 
Burks and Favors are my favorite players on the team and I still say Yay... because I care more about the Jazz trying to build a contending team than I do about the players I like staying on the team.

And you can't build a contending team without a star player (well actually multiple star players, but one step at a time), and the Jazz don't have one. Their best bet for getting one is through the draft, and in this draft they'll have to trade up to #1 or #2. And the #1 or #2 pick is not going to come cheap. Luckily, the Jazz have some solid assets, so it's time to use them and finally get this rebuilding process started for real.
 
fishonjazz said:
do you have some kind of time machine or proof that jabari and wiggins wont just be about the same good as our current young lottery picks?

Also how do we know what the ceiling of our current players is?

its a big risk to trade that much...... having said that, i wont be pissed if the trade goes down. i will be cautiously optimistic
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I get what you are saying. It's not a guarantee that if we trade up we get a franchise player. It's just a chance I'd be willing to take. This draft might be super overrated. Who knows?....But I'm pretty confident that I don't see any franchise players on our current roster. I like Burks a lot too, but tbh his ceiling is probably just an all star, if that. Favors has potential, but I'm not sure he'll ever reach it. He just doesn't seem to have the mind for it.

I'd rather keep scrounging for that next big time star, than build a team that will never win it. Sure it's fun to watch a team compete, but at the same time it's really frustrating when you know it's not going anywhere. That may sound like a lame approach, I know, but I've suffered through enough mediocre teams. We've been a decent franchise for a long time. I want greatness. If we had been a franchise like the bobcats who have sucked a long time, then maybe my view would be different, and I'd just want to see our team compete.
 
Hack said:
I get what you are saying. It's not a guarantee that if we trade up we get a franchise player. It's just a chance I'd be willing to take. This draft might be super overrated. Who knows?....But I'm pretty confident that I don't see any franchise players on our current roster. I like Burks a lot too, but tbh his ceiling is probably just an all star, if that. Favors has potential, but I'm not sure he'll ever reach it. He just doesn't seem to have the mind for it.

I'd rather keep scrounging for that next big time star, than build a team that will never win it. Sure it's fun to watch a team compete, but at the same time it's really frustrating when you know it's not going anywhere. That may sound like a lame approach, I know, but I've suffered through enough mediocre teams. We've been a decent franchise for a long time. I want greatness. If we had been a franchise like the bobcats who have sucked a long time, then maybe my view would be different, and I'd just want to see our team compete.
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ya you are probably right......

awww **** it, im in.

Sure wish we could get it done with pick 23 instead of burks though
 
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