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Dennis Lindsey promoted to VP of basketball operations. Justin Zanik promoted to GM

Handlogten's Heros said:
I think it is kinda just a new title and paycheck... I'm guessing not a lot changes day to day... maybe in a year or two more responsibility transfers. I think that they both get new business cards but very little changes.
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Let's hope he is a bit more innovative and can help us evolve with the times
 
Stoked said:
Gobert/Harris/Mitchell/Conley?


Well, I’m uncomfortably hard now.
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Cold spoon coming... we'd have to sign Harris (not likely), trade Exum (DL loves him like a son), and convince Memphis to actually make a decision (they suck and would probably send the wrong Conley).
 
infection said:
I’d imagine this is nothing. KOC was never the “GM,” as we didn’t even have that title. He was VP of basketball operations. When we hired DL, he became the GM, but didn’t really do anything until a year or more later when KOC stepped away. But KOC never relinquished that title (at least nobody replaced it), so the real question is where’s KOC?
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KOC lives in Chicago and still works as a consultant for the Jazz.
 
Larsen said KOC is still involved as a senior consultant... Jeebus no wonder we can never get a trade done... too many peoples involved. Imma just show up in a fancy suit on draft night and hand out cards as the Assistant Vice President Senior Executive of Personnel Management Operations in Basketball and just see what kinda traction I can get... I'm fairly sure that is what Kurt Rambis did.
 
Jazz new GM:

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radiohegel said:
Tony Jones just confirmed this is specifically free agency-related.

My hunch is they are gunning for Middleton. Speculation: Zanik and Khris had a good relationship in Milwaukee, and Khris was displeased when The Bucks kind stabbed him in the back. The Jazz might have a hunch he’s willing to come, and promoting Zanik is a way of putting their money where their mouths are with their commitment to him (I.e., we aren’t gonna just let him walk a year after you sign here.
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That's seems like an intriguing scenario.
 
Stoked said:
Gobert/Harris/Mitchell/Conley?


Well, I’m uncomfortably hard now.
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Don't forget Ingles getting back to hitting wide-open shots and slinging the ball to the nooks and crannies of the offense instead of carrying the load he's been increasingly carrying. I want him around a long time, but he's carrying a burden that will have him ground down in two seasons if we're not careful.

You'd have to stretch Korver to create space to help absorb Conley since the Grizzlies would want to be off of as much money as possible for next year and they'd have to take Exum. You'd probably have to throw-in Jae. Throw in Bradley as another upside play for the Grizzlies and to get rid of a little more salary. Obviously throw in a 1st, either an unprotected one or two protected firsts or Allen if it needs that much sweetening (I'd like to keep him).

But you're going to have:

Conley
Mitchell
Ingles
Harris
Gobert

As your obvious starters and closers. You're going to have Royce in there, hopefully Allen. Neto is probably not kept in this scenario, but maybe. Go out and get Greg Monroe as your backup 5. Or Noah Vonleh. Or any number of these guys that just aren't going to be starters on any good team anywhere. Go spend what you're allowed (I don't know if you get the MLE or keep the room exception) on the rest of the roster. Whatever, depth is easily found. That lineup is killer. That is a puncher's chance at a title.
 
Kemba/Mitchell/KD/Tobias/Gobert?

Something smells like a 2 round playoff win to me.
 
yamers said:
So zanik was with the jazz and then went to the bucks in 2016-17 and then back to the jazz

What am i missing here? He hasnt rly done much, but I guess the FO trusts he is ready.
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I believe he went to Milwuakee to take over as GM and maybe even Pres of Bball Ops after the old guy retired. But the ownership unexpectedly chose young gun Jon Horst to take over, so Zanik came back to Utah.
 
Is this a promotion or a "promotion" for DL? People on other forums seem to think it's a "promotion" in name only but more of a sort of demotion into a managerial role. If the Jazz were a dumpster fire I'd think demotion, but there's a good organization here and so many former GMs in the front office that I don't think it is.
 
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