Your 48 hours is like two weeks long though homie.Just like with Rudy - I told you beezies.
Your 48 hours is like two weeks long though homie.
If it weren't for the ****** jerseys I'd be more excited about this year than I have been in a long time. The year the Jazz were supposed to have the worst record in the league and ended up being the emergence of Harpring and Bell was a really fun year IMO.I think there's something alluring to tanking. There's no expectations that can create disappointment like last year. But at some point, we're going to realize just how good those two players were. It's still somewhat bizarre to me that a franchise like UTA traded two star players locked into long term deals in their prime, but hey....late first round picks!
You mean the Ben Handlogten Era!If it weren't for the ****** jerseys I'd be more excited about this year than I have been in a long time. The year the Jazz were supposed to have the worst record in the league and ended up being the emergence of Harpring and Bell was a really fun year IMO.
Hell, I'm old enough to remember when Utah just let their two best players expire with NO picks then used that vaunted capspace to facilitate Golden State's first championship. This is better.I think there's something alluring to tanking. There's no expectations that can create disappointment like last year. But at some point, we're going to realize just how good those two players were. It's still somewhat bizarre to me that a franchise like UTA traded two star players locked into long term deals in their prime, but hey....late first round picks!
WTF, you're old enough to remember 9 years ago????Hell, I'm old enough to remember when Utah just let their two best players expire with NO picks then used that vaunted capspace to facilitate Golden State's first championship. This is better.
However strongly you feel about this, I'm certain Danny Ainge feels stronger.I really hope they don’t trade him to the heat, just because the entitled Miami fans who have acted like that was destiny will be vindicated. Also I think their package sucks. Their picks are worthless. We can do much better than that, or I’d rather keep him for another season just for sentimental reasons.
I think the allure to tanking is that it can produce a title. If you get the top tier talent with your own picks and the other picks fill out the roster because they are late firsts... then so be it. If they become lotto picks like we have seen happen.... A LOT. Then you are in even better shape.I think there's something alluring to tanking. There's no expectations that can create disappointment like last year. But at some point, we're going to realize just how good those two players were. It's still somewhat bizarre to me that a franchise like UTA traded two star players locked into long term deals in their prime, but hey....late first round picks!
This. I’ve thought the same thing.Yes...every single move they've made so far this offseason points to a re-build, not a re-tool. The front office can say whatever they want but actions speak louder than words.
I think the allure to tanking is that it can produce a title. If you get the top tier talent with your own picks and the other picks fill out the roster because they are late firsts... then so be it. If they become lotto picks like we have seen happen.... A LOT. Then you are in even better shape.
We had two really great players but couldn't put the requisite talent around them. Both guys had some flaws that make building around them a little difficult.
Winning a title is a long shot in general. I think rebuilding is the way you get the top tier talent needed to win at the highest levels. I just think if you do it a year early instead of a year late you extract a premium that will help us to ensure the rebuild is a success.That's the hope of course, but there's hope both ways. When you're tanking, you have zero pressure to win in the moment and hope is infinite. If you win a game, you won. If you lost, you win anyways. When you're actually trying to win, you have to do it and anything short of winning is extra frustrating.
Personally, I will take it to the grave that the previous version of the Jazz did not fail because of Mitchell and Gobert, but the team built around them. No they are not perfect, but the execution to build around them was horrific and downright embarrassing. It would have been a longshot to build a true contender around them, especially after all the mistakes that were made, but tanking for a title is also a longshot. If I was a GM and I didn't believe I sucked, I would have definitely held onto those two. But I also wouldn't have done the horrid management job that we saw the last couple of seasons.
Winning a title is a long shot in general. I think rebuilding is the way you get the top tier talent needed to win at the highest levels. I just think if you do it a year early instead of a year late you extract a premium that will help us to ensure the rebuild is a success.
If you combine gathering high quality draft capital (unprotected picks) and tanking it could be pretty wild. I think really only OKC has tried it to this extent, and they have been out of the playoffs for two years now. We haven't really seen a team hit huge on both fronts... they have great lotto luck and have a few of the other teams they bet against suck. I also think teams have never been this cavalier with picks in the modern era and some teams will come out big winners.
Between the Minny trade, the coming Don trade, and the other stuff that Danny has on this roster that he can pawn off... he may end up with a collection of picks that Presti can only dream of. I know I know... you gotta use em somehow and turn them into players... yada yada. I just think in a one year period he can stack the ledger like no one has before. Then you can build from the ground up intelligently rather than patching something together.I envision us being the team that is top-4 seed in 2025 that got a top-5 pick from one of these deals. One of those like they are already up and coming and have a top-5 pick this year? It would be like if Memphis got one this year.