A more focused player development strategy

[silesian]

I agree it's a little crazy to bring in as many guys as we do, but as to the roster players, I don't know how you are measuring 'attention'. If it's hours, how many hours did the Jazz spend developing Kanter relative to guys like Chris Johnson?

Probably not much is measurable given publically available data. But from what we hear in interviews and in the press, the Jazz seem to talk more about player development as a core piece of strategy. You can measure the number of players brought in for workouts, we lead the league in this regard for sure.

My broader question is around opportunity cost: "what else could we be doing to improve the team with the time (1,000s of coach-hours) and money we took to develop Chris Johnson?"

 

[orangello]

Take this however you want to but having Norman Powell on this team instead of drafting Hanlan (Powell went 4 spots after Hanlan) would have been nice.

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[orangello]

i dunno we could have really used someone like Norm Powell, and if those can be had in the 2nd round of every draft then best believe we need to keep upping the ante on our workouts and scouting.

Instead we wasted a pick on freaking Olivier Hanlan. Dang.

Looks like I should have kept reading instead of posting.

Nice work Dal.

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[My2Cents]

Probably not much is measurable given publically available data. But from what we hear in interviews and in the press, the Jazz seem to talk more about player development as a core piece of strategy. You can measure the number of players brought in for workouts, we lead the league in this regard for sure.

My broader question is around opportunity cost: "what else could we be doing to improve the team with the time (1,000s of coach-hours) and money we took to develop Chris Johnson?"

There's no doubt the Jazz are heavily invested in player development, but there seems to be a couple of different issues. One is the amount of time spent developing roster players and how much time is spent on a guy like Lyles vs. a player like CJ. You can't just ignore players like CJ because they're playing meaningful minutes, so everybody gets developed to some extent. But we don't really know how they're allocating resources during the season, so I'm not sure how you can say they need to retool their strategy without knowing what the strategy is. Guys like Lyles, Exum, and Gobert may already be getting a lot more individual attention that CJ gets.
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The second issue is the number of players we bring in for workouts. It may be a little over the top, but we do have two rosters to fill. The roster guys have scattered so what else could the coaches be doing in May and June if not evaluating players? We're talking about 15-18 workouts over 2 months if they bring in 6 guys at a time. I'm not sure that's too many unless the workouts start to get bunched. The big question is not the time spent, but whether we are really benefitting from bringing all these guys in. I'm not sure we are and maybe this strategy will change now that D League guys can be so easily scouted in SLC.

 

[silesian]

I swear, I'm not Dennis Lindsay.....article

Still, there has to be a balance, Lindsey said. Utah's GM wants as many workouts as possible, but also as many strategy days as possible. Those are the days with no workouts where the staff convenes and evaluates. Those days, Lindsey said, are just as important as the days with prospects in the gym shooting jumpers. Lindsey said he's given Perrin the task of striking the balance he's seeking.