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Conley Officially a Jazzman

If conley can stay healthy this is a huge power move.

Big question for me: can conley be healthy? Can everyone stay healthy?

Jazz looking good.

Conley is the ultimate snyder wet dream. This is his guy through and through.
 
Spinoza said:
My guess is Memphis wasn't willing to pull the trigger at that time.

They're giving up an all-star caliber PG for very little, so it makes sense that they would have assumed at the time that they could get more for him.
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Agreed. Add to it that Memphis' demands were being called unreasonable by other teams, including Indiana. I suspect it's part of the reason their GM was fired.
 
candrew said:
Most importantly, Utah announcing this trade 2 and a half weeks before it can become official leads me believe they plan on making additional deals up through free agency - much like NJ trading Crabbe and AD to LAL.

I wouldn't be surprised if Exum and Favors are gone next in an effort to position themselves into FA pickup.
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I think Exum would be gone in the Conley deal if we wanted to get rid of him. He was the hold up last year. But maybe we use him and/or favors as part of another big trade.
 
MVP said:
How did that work against Houston in playoffs?
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Our spacing? Great. Our ability to hit open shots? Terrible. But that had nothing to do with Favors and Gobert playing together. That was cold shooting. We need our players to hit wide open shots. Ingles, Rubio, Mitchell, Crowder all sucked at that. Hopefully we get a couple more good shooters and Mitchell and Ingles shoot better next year in the playoffs.
 
JazzAvenues said:
I like this trade. A lot.

People complain about cake baking. Then they complain about making a move.

You can argue we overpaid. That we have one guaranteed year with Conley, then he could leave on his player option. And that Conley is getting old. Well, if you had the chance to play with Gobert and Mitchell, would you be eager to move on? And the upside of him being old is that it is not clear there will be massive contracts tossed his way at the end of his option year.

Love Korver, but his time as an impact player was over.
Like Jae, but he is not someone who will elevate the franchise. Solid yes, great Jazz attitude yes. The third key piece behind Gobert and Mitchell? No.
I like Grayson and would have liked to keep him. But his ceiling is not sky high to me.
Wasn't terribly psyched for the 23rd pick this year. Hurts to lose another first round pick after this one, but nothing comes for free.

I am still an Exum fan, and we keep him. When healthy (yeah I know, small sample size) he has shown elite speed. And I have to believe he can learn to finish at the rim. But as much as I love Exum, it is too much of a risk to turn the point guard spot over to him until he shows he can finish and stay healthy. This will give at least one year for that. Exum has been ridiculously injured, but they really have been flukes of all different kinds. Maybe he is made of crystal and there is always one more thing waiting to shatter. But I really think he has the chance to finally blossom and I look forward to watching him get the chance.

Glad to still have Favors as a trade option or as a solid piece to keep. He has been a wonderful Jazz man and has performed big when it counted.

Then there is the impact on Gobert. We need to show him the Jazz are serious about winning the championship he craves. Making no moves increases the chance of losing the big man because he becomes frustrated and loses belief.

The impact on Mitchell may be larger. Back to the #2 spot with a point guard who can legitimately create his own shot. This will take so much of the pressure off of Donovan and will prevent a total defensive focus against him. And the Jazz are showing confidence to make moves because we know we are darn close to the top.
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This is a great post!!!
 
I see the board consensus is to slay the naysayers. I hope you all are right and I am wrong but my reaction is...Barf.

To me this shows Lindsay is a desperate man. Blown every assett he had on short term rentals of pgs and missmanaged his draft picks except for two.

Really hope i am wrong, but count me unimpressed.
 
MVP said:
Rudy is not a difference maker in today's NBA unless he learns how to shoot and develops any kind of post game.
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Bawse Dawg said:
Internet loves the trade for us. Almost like we value our own guys way more than they are worth. The thing we always accuse and hate the FO for doing...



No it's not.
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Of course the internet loves the trade for us. The negative reactions here are honestly bizarre.
 
Good discussion guys
I don't like the trade right now but I'm sure I will come around.

I didn't like the Rubio trade and then everyone talked about how he had just come off the best stretch of his career and his shooting was trending up and his defense was amazing and he would get ready buckets for our guys with his awesome passing, etc etc and I ended up coming around and liking the trade.

I'm an optimistic jazz fan most of the time.

Next year should be a lot of fun at least and we should get homecourt in the playoffs........ If we stay healthy.

We still have neto at least!

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MVP said:
Don;t get me wrong people, I love Conley on the Jazz. But we traded wrong pieces and at wrong time. Had we dealt Exum, Rubio and a pick or two at trade deadline we would be much better.
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Crowder was the only player we lost that mattered to the team. But we can replace him easily with a better shooter.

I know you don't like Exum but he still has big potential, more than Allen.
 
mellow said:
I see the board consensus is to slay the naysayers. I hope you all are right and I am wrong but my reaction is...Barf.

To me this shows Lindsay is a desperate man. Blown every assett he had on short term rentals of pgs and missmanaged his draft picks except for two.

Really hope i am wrong, but count me unimpressed.
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I don't agree, but to each their DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!!
 
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