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For me its can you nab a Keon Ellis or Jalen Smith on the cheap. Maybe Houston moves Tari Eason before FA to avoid that dance. Stuff like that. Not like a star trade (unless a great one pops up). The opportunity costs arent huge but they aren't nothing.

Definitely discussed. Its time to look in the mirror and make a decision. Half heartedly tanking and missing out on transaction cycles is just not it.

Yes its a half tank.... you can go back and look at posts I made at the time saying we were still too good. They exceeded what I thought we would but they traded all stars for other players who weren't bad and didn't move the other vets fast enough. It wasn't something that was unpredictable...

Those guys are the masters at that stuff. Drives me crazy. I'm tempted to listen but guessing the clips will suffice.

My thoughts in the pod I think were somewhat coherent but TLDR You want a go to action/player.... alpha type... offensive engine... so that when the game slows down in the clutch or in other times that you have a place to go. I feel like we have that without running an intricate set. I think we...

year 1 and 2 they only tanked half the year or maybe slightly less. Half the effort... half the result? We have done light management so far this year. Full tank in the second half looks unlikely to me. Will require full double fisted birds at Silver, Presti, and the league.

Rich Paul pusing the Austin Reaves and a first for JJJ is hilarious to me. We got super agent podcasters pulling puppet strings openly in the media.

100% to answer the question in the OP. Talked about this on the pod that just dropped. Huge development if it holds.

We back! Didn’t go as hard on Nepo Ainge ismy only regret. Recorded on Sunday but it’s really prescient after last night.

View: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jackpotting-around-a-utah-jazz-podcast/id1728148741?i=1000744927107 View: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CqFv8upU3lLVNaRGnQGtH?si=zzSQezCXQEeGPL-lwuD-vA

Cavs look absolutely lifeless. They probably need to make a big deal to shake things up... but Garland and Allen's value must be pretty rough right now.

We are absolutely headed for Cleveland jumping us in the lotto and us falling to 9th. I won't even be mad... I'll be impressed.

I wonder if the lotto holds and we have #6 and they have #11 and they love Brown Jr. or Fleming and we don't want a guard if a swap of 6 and 11 can be a big part of the value we send out. Timing would be weird to make salaries work but I'm sure we could all figure it out. Likely adding a...

This is basically where I am at. I think it really depends on us more than them. Are we going to wilt under the pressure of mean podcasters? Will the league actually send Ryan a nasty memo? Or will Austin's ego prevail? We just can't walk the line much if at all anymore.

think Walk to a third team for draft stuff that goes to Memphis would be a start. I think its multiple firsts one way or another and some young players (non-Ace or Key division).