Dad? Is that really you? You ****ing deadbeat, you owe me 18 years of maintenance, pay or its your knee caps. Cash or cheque its up to you, 50k should cover it, by Monday. Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Son, you can't even spell "check" right. You spelled it "cheque". It's ok, I understand. You've never had one issued to you because you haven't worked and have been living in your mothers basement for quite sometime. And the only deadbeat is the one asking for $50k. When you grow up and get a job, you'll realize that's not a lot of money. When your a child, $50k seems like the world. But your not smart, so I know you'll blow it on things like a sex doll, 3 months of rent at an extended stay hotel, axe body spray, hookers and blow. But when you go to buy blow, you'll get ripped off and pay money for powdered sugar. And your hookers will be men with implants. That $50k that you dream about, would do you more harm than good.
Jeff Green chose to come to the Jazz over the L.A. Lakers, so let's give him a standing O for doing what no player has ever done in NBA history. Chose the Utah Jazz over the Lakers. What's wrong with a 33 year old?? He's not a 38 year old Kyle Korver that we gave up 2 draft picks for and Alec Burks, I never heard you talk about that one.
I'm sure you're probably 18, and 33 seems ancient. I'm 36 and I know I could still clean someone's clock if I had to, young or old. (You may not get that metaphor, ask someone who was born before 1988 what it means).
We're not going to need someone to chase our offensive rebounds/misses, because we got guys that can put the ball in the freaking basket!!! Besides we're still going to be fine. We replaced Favors with Ed Davis! Do you know what this guy can do!!???
Ok cupcake, it's past your bedtime. Put on your footie pajamas and go to sleep. When you wake up, try to not say as many stupid things as you did the day before.
The only cherry on top for the offseason would have been Caruso and Marcus Morris.
You can't eat a cake and have a cake. In order to improve our obvious deficiences we had to make some sacrifice. You couldnt get Bogdanovic and keep Favors at the same time. I think everyone sees the potential risk. But how would you adress it? Whom would you get for a vet min in place of Jeff Green? You want a player who can "hold against bigger forwards, lock up guards on the perimeter AND protect the rim and crash the boards". That's a long wish list.
I don't know if leaving open spot on the roster would give us real advantage. Apparently FO believes it s worth to give it to someone and hope we will find another Royce like player. I think anyway we will be able to improve by making some trade if we see a real problem.
Stop talking about reality, I'm sipping on kool-aidStill with a few more tweaks to the roster and another year of maturation for Donovan, we’re not that far off. Finals may be in the future for the Jazz but it’s not gonna be this year.
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So I’m hardly the first non-homer to point out these weaknesses. The post was supposed to be a critique of the Jazz’s championship prospects. Instead of building in flexibility, we’ve now kinda locked ourselves into this 15-man roster (that’s very light in bench production and defensive forwards to guard Kawhi/Lebron/AD and pretty inflexible at the 5).
And it’s not that I’d want someone INSTEAD of Jeff Green - he’s a good get at the min. As an OPTION at the 4/5 he might be good for some minutes, but I don’t want to have to rely on him to win shart - he’s made a career out of disappointing teams... thus why he’s a Jazzman on a min 1-yr.
As I said if they couldn’t find a defensive, bouncy 4 at the min available anywhere, then instead of wasting the roster spot on a total no-name like William Howard, I would have rather just left it open for a buyout (as most contending teams do). Good luck playing 6’6” Royce as a small ball 5 - he’s good but he’s pretty much at his peak at 26 y/o, and he’s not THAT big, nor THAT athletic.
I’ll be yelling my lungs out every game cheering them, and I hope I’m wrong, but in a 7-game series l just don’t see this particular Jazz squad beating the best of the west.
PS: I’m glad we didn’t pay Favors $18m to play backup center minutes. Nor Mirotic + some wing shooter for the same price. That would have been worse.
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So a lot of complaining, SuperHooper.
Put your money where your mouth is. You're Lindzanik. Tell us, specifically, what you would have done differently. No generalities, such as someone more athletic, give us specifics. Who was available? Who would you have offered and at how much?
Here, I'll give you an "out", but this is hindsight:
1. What would have closed the deal for Conley at the deadline? Rumor was Dante. So Dante, Derrick and a 1st? Not sure Rubio would have been wanted by Grizzlies if they were to get Dante in the deal. But perhaps it's a 50/50 trade. Lindsey insists on Rubio being included if he's also giving up Exum.
1a. With Conley in place, Jazz could keep Derrick - and Jae - had they wanted. No Bogdanovic, though, if they do that.
But let's not go back. This off-season:
1. Do you make the Conley trade the way it went down? Or do you keep Crowder, your athletic 4 who is also streaky AF as a shooter. and get a different PG? Or do you keep Rubio?
2. To get Bogs or any other significant FA, Jazz had to clear cap. I think the only "questionable" move is keeping Dante, which then waterfalls into other roster moves. I happen to agree with it - for one more year. But take that $10M, add in Davis and Green. Was there another player available at ~$17M that would have come to Utah?
3. BTW, neither Howard nor Kidd are fully guaranteed. Jazz could still leave a spot open, or sign someone to a vet-minimum deal who gets waived.
Awfully tough to get under the cap and then fill all your roster holes in the same season, except if you're playing a video game and can just choose whoever you want, assuming you're choice #1 for every FA. Ideally Utah WOULD have a better starting 4. But Jazz will have their full MLE next year. Hopefully they can add one more very good player, or even a couple more ring chasers.
Can't re-run all the numbers but landing Conley and Bojan was kinda best case scenario with a combo of trades and free agent space. I had hoped we could do the Conley deal in season last year so we could have full MLE available. Had we moved Exum, Crowder we'd have had space.
The roster construction is really good... we have holes for sure. One thing that we have done is we filled potential holes with development types - Exum - yes an eternal development, Mudiay, NWG, Oni, Bradley... that's five spots. I think Niang is a solid rotation player if needed even though he is still improving... I think he can be relied on... Exum if healthy is fine for 15-18 minutes a night... but ya know "if healthy" might be his middle name at this point.
We could add a traditionally sized rotation level 4 or a solid backup pg to fill the holes. Those are both things we can play by ear and address later if need be. If our top 8 guys, or even just the top 4-5, have relatively healthy years we are going to be awesome. One of the development guys might pop and then you have a cheap piece (outside of Exum) playing in a perfectly suitable role. I could see NWG being a solid backup guard in kind of a Tyus Jones type of way, or Oni being a functional 3 and D wing, or hell maybe Mudiay figures some things out... he has talent, physical attributes, and seems to be mature/serious about developing. The fact that he pushed his way to this situation says a lot about him imo… I will be rooting for him even though I think it maybe a basketball IQ issue.
I'd like to see Howard play well enough that he takes Tony's spot... right now we don't have a spot for him... he could be interesting.
Yeah we’re “forced” to get a guy like NWG cuz the FO is still enamored by a guy who can’t shoot, can’t dribble, and can’t stay on the floor, and decided to get an undeveloped FOURTH point guard who also can’t shoot and can’t defend. We have four point guards, three of whom might not be PG’s or even solid rotation players.
Hopefully the Jazz’s holes (at PG and PF) are just less than other teams’. Or can be plugged by the deadline. My fear is that the FO won’t move on anything unless we’re in like 6th or 7th place in January
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Howard got to make the team first thoCan't re-run all the numbers but landing Conley and Bojan was kinda best case scenario with a combo of trades and free agent space. I had hoped we could do the Conley deal in season last year so we could have full MLE available. Had we moved Exum, Crowder we'd have had space.
The roster construction is really good... we have holes for sure. One thing that we have done is we filled potential holes with development types - Exum - yes an eternal development, Mudiay, NWG, Oni, Bradley... that's five spots. I think Niang is a solid rotation player if needed even though he is still improving... I think he can be relied on... Exum if healthy is fine for 15-18 minutes a night... but ya know "if healthy" might be his middle name at this point.
We could add a traditionally sized rotation level 4 or a solid backup pg to fill the holes. Those are both things we can play by ear and address later if need be. If our top 8 guys, or even just the top 4-5, have relatively healthy years we are going to be awesome. One of the development guys might pop and then you have a cheap piece (outside of Exum) playing in a perfectly suitable role. I could see NWG being a solid backup guard in kind of a Tyus Jones type of way, or Oni being a functional 3 and D wing, or hell maybe Mudiay figures some things out... he has talent, physical attributes, and seems to be mature/serious about developing. The fact that he pushed his way to this situation says a lot about him imo… I will be rooting for him even though I think it maybe a basketball IQ issue.
I'd like to see Howard play well enough that he takes Tony's spot... right now we don't have a spot for him... he could be interesting.
Howard got to make the team first tho