Recent content by GunterD

The things the nba seem to be considering are all fine ideas that won’t hurt anything and may make the draft process a bit better, but still won’t in any way actually fix the issue they are trying to address. So long as there is incentive to be worse and no incentive to be mediocre, the optimal...

Was that overtime game that took a last second shot by Bane to finish us off not in this time period? Sure looked like they were trying to win it to me. Might get that way pretty soon but hasn’t seemed like they were just going through the motions to me yet.

I feel ya I’ve been in the same boat. Whats worked for me this year was convincing myself what I cheer for has no influence on what actually happens. Simplify, stop worrying about the long term cause that’s someone else’s job to do, and just think about each game in microcosm...

I think for now I'm just going to be happy living in the place where I can cheer and enjoy games with my dudes playing hard and trying to win and surprising people. I find I have missed that surprisingly much. In the back of my head I know that long-term, getting the wins is not in line with...

Man I'm glad I watched that. Funnest Jazz game for me in a long while.

Its funny because I don't think there are very many people that would actually argue that reducing the number of games would be a bad thing from a product perspective. Each game means more, less strain on the player's bodies so they can play harder and be injured less, less need to rest players...

I'm a little more engaged at this point this year than last because I'm interested in seeing how Ace plays, and if the Jazz can tank the season naturally without being too gross. But I'm definitely not like champing at the bit waiting for the season to start or anything like I usually am around...

I mean, when people are talking timeline with Lauri, I don't think its really that he's too old to play with the young guys. He's getting near the edge, he'd be early 30's but probably still have some good years left. Its more like, these guys will be ready to make some noise in 4-5 years...

Well except they didn't all even have the same trade idea, all 3 of those just said "this is an idea that Grant Hughes guy published, and this is what I think about it". They're just reaction videos in print form. They all point back to the same single source.

I do hope so. Last year we won 17, while pretty egregiously manipulating lineups and rest days to lose on purpose. If we aren't doing that this year, I don't see how we just win 18. The year prior we won 31 and had the 8th worst record. The year before that we won 37. I think we were...

I was also going to say Cody. Statistically speaking, that rookie year was one of the worst seasons anybody has ever had. Could only go up from there right? Right?

OK, that's not as bad. I did the math in my head on the RFA rules wrong. So catastrophic was too strong a word. Still think based on his performance we go one of several ways 1) Lives up to the contract, stays on the team, no artificial minute or rest restrictions. Team wins more than we...

I'm not looking at that part for this year. He's under contract at 46-53 million per year through 2029. If he dramatically underperforms that, the contract is untradeable, and we are stuck with it, or we have to jettison valuable resources to get rid of it. If Bailey and one of our other...

My primary hopes for this season are that 1) Ace do really well, 2) we keep our pick, and 3) that we don't have to do the gross blatant "lose on purpose" thing we did last year to pull it off. 1 and 2 being for some hope for the future, and 1 and 3 being so I actually want to watch the games...

I think there's an error, the same team listed as team 7 here is also listed as team 4 in the other thread.