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2020 Free Agency Thread

infection said:
DL doesn't take shots because he's afraid of missing. He lets the shots come to him.
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While some moves are head-scratchers this offseason, you must admit that last season he went all in and took some serious risks and most of us we pretty excited going into the season. Some of those moves clearly backfired and crippled our flexibility coming into this offseason. But he did pull the trigger last year, right or wrong.
 
latin jazz said:
While some moves are head-scratchers this offseason, you must admit that last season he went all in and took some serious risks and most of us we pretty excited going into the season. Some of those moves clearly backfired and crippled our flexibility coming into this offseason. But he did pull the trigger last year, right or wrong.
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He did. And I largely supported the Conley traded because we needed to **** or get off the pot. However, all the steps that led to that were things I pushed back on all along the way. Once we knew Donovan was good early in his rookie season, we needed to go all-in. We drug our feet on that for two years and eventually passed on everything in the name of flexibility, and then when it came down to it he got hyper-focused on Conley. Can’t blame them for the moves they made. I was supportive. I really liked the Ed Davis pick up. But when the flaws of this team became incredibly glaring, we did absolutely nothing about it, even when the cost was non-existent (i.e. getting a semi-warm body to play backup 5). Getting some semblance of flexible competency for perimeter defense will be this season’s “backup 5 problem” of last year — it will be obvious to anyone, but we’ll refuse to concede the issue, until next summer when we overcorrect and develop new blind spots in the process.
 
The fact that DL made a trade didn't automatically make it "serious risk". Any trade comes with risk but a trade for Conley is a rather low-risk one. A proven vet who came with all the known qualities in his games such as never winning the conference or even his own division, no all-star or all-nba selection, that makes him a rather safe bet with low upside. We kind of increased the risk ourselves by giving away more assets than we should.

A true "all-in" high risk trade would be the Raptor's trade for Kawhi, who just came out of a injury-riddled season while also being on the last season of his contract. If Raptors came away empty last year, they could basically be going into the full rebuild as all their pieces fall apart. I mean, they traded the best player in their FRANCHISE HISTORY for Kawhi. If they failed to deliver last season, their GM will certainly lose his job as many Toronto fans vows to never watch another game of theirs again.

What's the worst that could happen to us if the Conley trade fails to deliver?(well, it already did, but he's still got one more season to go) We will still have DM and possibly Rudy to help us compete for the next 3-4 years at least. it's not "all-in" or "high-risk", far from it.
 
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Yes we were excited with the deals last season but too bad it did not work.
We really can't say if they tried or did not do anything to move players that did not work.
Who knows what the other teams were asking in exchange of taking these players off the Jazz.
And who know what are the under the table and other handshake, unmentionable deals teams have to make these deals work.
What we know are what we are getting from the media.
 


Me thinks Horford and George Hill would still be moved.
Or be bought out.
Can the Jazz still afford George Hill on a vet minimum?
Are both parties willing to have a reunion?
 
Or we will do nothing and pretend we fixed the perimeter defense by double fixing the interior defense.

Look we are better but it’s always on the fringes I feel we goof up... goof up enough on the fringes and it snow balls. I hope we have a g league season so Udoka can Shaq it up down there... I hope Miye is ready... of all the rookies he looked the most calm and confident when he played... he’s got tools. Don’t upgrade NWG and it probably doesn’t matter... but it might.
 
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