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What should the FO do if we are 0.500 by January?

If you were put in charge of the FO, what would you do if the Jazz were 0.500 on January 1st

  • Go For It: Use assets to add to the team and go for the playoff push

    Votes: 11 17.7%

  • Ethical Tank: Trade Kessler and Lauri for whatever we can get

    Votes: 8 12.9%

  • Stand Pat: Let it ride, see how it goes

    Votes: 12 19.4%

  • Unethical Tank: sit Lauri and Kessler for however long the league will allow

    Votes: 31 50.0%
  • Total voters
    62
SoUjazzfan said:
If we do indeed pivot and try to win, its time to bring Harkless back up for some defensive presence.
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If Hardy is truly coaching only for wins, not playing Harkless 10-20 minutes per game is a huge red flag in his judgement. It's extremely obvious that Harkless makes a huge positive difference when he is on the court:

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SoberasHotRod said:
If Hardy is truly coaching only for wins, not playing Harkless 10-20 minutes per game is a huge red flag in his judgement. It's extremely obvious that Harkless makes a huge positive difference when he is on the court:

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Tiny sample size based on a couple games... but I do agree he should be making more appearances. I think he mostly has been coaching to win but maybe be giving IC and Walt the benefit of the doubt first?
 
Can we please get about 50 games with Collier, Love, Brice, Hendricks, and Anderson playing at the same time for extended minutes?
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Tiny sample size based on a couple games... but I do agree he should be making more appearances. I think he mostly has been coaching to win but maybe be giving IC and Walt the benefit of the doubt first?
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Harkless did the same last year: https://www.nba.com/stats/players/advanced?Season=2024-25&TeamID=1610612762&dir=A&sort=NET_RATING

Even when you combine this year with last year it's still a tiny sample size, but you can use your eyes to see that he is a huge difference maker. I'm not sure yet if he's a guy that can make the same type of difference for an entire game, but if I was a coach I would at least give him 10 minutes to hound the other team's primary ball handler every game.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I listened to Locke. He seems confident we can "fix" the fact we don't have a pick but was mostly going on about how hard it will be to beat SA and OKC in the future.
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That's one of those "in the long run, we're all dead" things.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The fact that it will indeed be difficult to beat those teams (or at least OKC – who knows what happens with Wemby) in the near future shouldn't prevent the Jazz from thinking that it's worthwile to improve the team and try to move towards contending.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
That's one of those "in the long run, we're all dead" things.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The fact that it will indeed be difficult to beat those teams (or at least OKC – who knows what happens with Wemby) in the near future shouldn't prevent the Jazz from thinking that it's worthwile to improve the team and try to move towards contending.
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I don't disagree. It does show you the high bar we have to jump over but that doesn't mean you don't try. Things happen. I also have doubts on how a guy built like Wemby will be with regard to durability. Lebron was inevitable because he was almost always healthy. I think Wemby may be a guy that is dinged up here and there which provides some openings... assuming they become dominant.
 
OKC-SAS should not be a thing to even consider. We're not even close to being good enough to think about that.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I don't disagree. It does show you the high bar we have to jump over but that doesn't mean you don't try. Things happen. I also have doubts on how a guy built like Wemby will be with regard to durability. Lebron was inevitable because he was almost always healthy. I think Wemby may be a guy that is dinged up here and there which provides some openings... assuming they become dominant.
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On the other hand, the Spurs are not dumb. They doubtless have all the same concerns about Wemby's durability as everyone else, so they're not building the roster strictly around him – the way the Mavs were, by design, dependent on a heliocentric playmaker for a while when Luka was there.

The Spurs are probably counting on Wemby's versatility and ability to play with anyone. They'd rather have him available, but if he's not, plan B is almost as good as plan A.
 
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