Recent content by Coach Ellis

Were Queen and/or Fears ever thought to be on the market? Strange post to include them in.

Which is great, but doesn’t help them keep the pick. Look, I’m not opposed to keeping him the rest of this season or even next year as an affordable backup. . . if there's no deal to be made. IF he has value and can net a positive asset. . . the Jazz would be stupid to pass that up. Granted. . ...

Jazz have 5 guys that they should definitely look to trade at the deadline. All vets. Nurkic, Svi, Love, Anderson and Niang. Try to pick up an asset or two in the process, force the young guys into bigger roles and start figuring out who to keep next year and beyond. The only guy I’d actually...

I think playing those types of stupid games have already hurt the Jazz. Trading Favors away for cap space to sign Rudy Gay? And then playing the stupid tanking games they did for two years - when they could’ve tanked for Wemby and then admitted the 2024 draft was garbage and let the Thunder...

I also think there’s an argument for tanking by keeping the talent pool lower to keep the pick by trading away veterans who are not in the long-term plans and overplaying young guys to get them more experience and see where they’re at in their development. I don’t consider either of those things...

That sounds more realistic. I still say eff the Thunder. Jazz don’t have to unethically tank to be just bad enough to fall into the bottom 5 this year. Reduce Lauri’s minutes to a more reasonable number (mostly to reduce his wear and tear this year), trade some of the vets for peanuts (or as...

If that’s true. . . then eff the Thunder. Those guys were terrible about tanking during their lean years. Jazz losing to the Clippers today screws the Thunder twice as hard. I’m all for it. Looking forward to Cody Williams playing 30+ minutes today.

I don’t think the Jazz are in a perpetual rebuild though. Lauri is aging, but has proven to be awesome when healthy. Keyonte has taken a huge step forward and still looks to have more upside. Kessler was looking great before he hurt his shoulder and got shut down. Ace and WCJ are both...

Top 3 would be great - if we’re not being greedy.

Would love to acquire Black. He was the guy I was hoping the Jazz would draft that year once the Wemby sweepstakes was over. I think he and Keyonte would be fun together. Have a hard time seeing it happen after his recent production.

I think there’s been a lot of good ideas thrown out there, but I think the main thing is to incentivize teams to win and to remove incentives for teams to lose. My solution would be a combination of several things I’ve seen others suggest. Any team that misses the playoffs gets a top 10...

Modern day NBA arms race.

Jazz have squeaked by with at least 5 or 6 wins that could’ve gone either way - even splitting those games would’ve put them in a better position to keep the pick. I know dudes are wired to compete and win, but those games could easily bite this team on the *** at the end of the season.

How about the Jazz just don’t trade a future pick to get off Favors money to bring in Rudy Gay. Or maybe play to win in one of the worst drafts in recent memory when they had multiple high picks - instead they ranked their asses off and kept the pick. They get what they deserve if they lose the...

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