BlastingNews - Utah Jazz NBA off-season grade

[Getting Traded]

Good lord how delusional can you get? It is not a good thing to lose an All-Star! It isn't! I'm certain that DL doesn't think that. I'm certain that after GH left DL didn't sit down and add it to his resume.

Accomplishments
I was General Manager of the Utah Jazz the year All star forward Gordon Hayward decided to sign with another organization.

Hayward was not at all clear about his intentions. Even his teammates were uncertain; why else would they have gone to the meeting to try to convince him to stay? Is DL supposed to be a mind reader, especially when the player seems to be uncertain himself. Don't see how you can fault DL. And Hill was offered a contract but he nixed the offer. Then when he didn't get the offers he wanted, what are the Jazz supposed to do? They never took their original offer off the table, so far as we knew. Instead, DL did the smart thing and got Rubio. Not sure where this idea about Rubio being divisive came from -- I think it was CY who said that. Maybe he can elaborate.

 

[fishonjazz]

DL losing Hayward for nothing is a failure on his part. Can we please just acknowledge that it is his job to avoid what happened. If the GM is helpless then why have one?

Can you at least acknowledge that DL might have had no idea if Hayward planned to stay or leave and that hayward might not have known until it was to late to get anything for him?

 

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Can you at least acknowledge that DL might have had no idea if Hayward planned to stay or leave and that hayward might not have known until it was to late to get anything for him?

No because this is his persona. alt has been doing this for a while now. His takes and responses are super predictable. Originality has left the former heyhey.

 

[Gobzilla]

The article didn't say anything about injuries (a major factor in last year's results) and it reduced Ricky Rubio to a liability and Donavan Mitchell was an after thought. Frankly, I think we are all going to see our offense go from one of the most ISO dominant teams in the league to a top 8 passing team and Rubio doesn't have to score to facilitate the offense better than 40 game overpaid Hill and Shelvin Mack/Neto. If we seriously are a top 3 defensive team with an increase in deflections that bring our pace up... add in health and a assists and I think this article will look narrow minded in 8 months.

If we aren't healthy, Donovan plays like a shell of the SL performances we saw, Rubio can't shoot so much that he can't open up any passes, and we average 80 points... then so be it. But I really can't see a Rubio run offense be lower than a top 15 team in the league. The Twolves offense outperformed their roster and they whined about Rubio's inability to stretch the floor. They didn't know how good they had it. Teague doesn't run an offense. Teague scores. Rubio ran an offense. I would say last year the Jazz spent long periods of games NOT running an offense. I am excited to see that change.

Do you even watch Jazz games? They don't play ISO offense at all, they are all about the pass, haha.

 

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One thing I feel gets sometimes overlooked in this offseason shuffle is that Gobert's massive improvements were just as, if not, more responsible than anything for the jump the Jazz made last season. It wasn't just Hayward's big offseason strides that took the Jazz to the 2nd round and over 50 wins.

Going into the season, I view this team as better than the one from two years ago, which is where Vegas has them pegged. Gobert is already a far superior player to the 2015-16 version, the starting point guard isn't an LOL, Ingles has improved a lot since then, Hood should be better. Also, they won't be playing guys like Chris Johnson and Elijah Millsap due to the stealthy additions of Sefalosha and Jerebko. Diaw is gone.

Favors is a huge question mark, though. He was much worse last season than in 2015-2016.

With all this in mind, I def think they can achieve 45 wins or so.

 

[Miggs]

DL losing Hayward for nothing is a failure on his part. Can we please just acknowledge that it is his job to avoid what happened. If the GM is helpless then why have one?

Yes, evidently we need to hire Nostradamus as the next GM so that he can predict what our free agents will do before they do it.

 

[LogGrad98]

Yes, evidently we need to hire Nostradamus as the next GM so that he can predict what our free agents will do before they do it.

Nostradamus already predicted all this:

Century X
4
At midnight the leader of the army
Will save himself, suddenly vanished:
Seven years later his reputation unblemished,
To his return they will never say yes.

So Hayward (the leader of the army) vanished to save himself (moved to Boston). He was with us 7 years with his reputation unblemished, but later he will regret it and want to return to which we will never say yes.

Also this one is about Favors.

Century X
32
The great empire, everyone would be of it,
One will come to obtain it over the others:
But his realm and state will be of short duration,
Two years will he be able to maintain himself on the sea.

Favors will come to obtain the great empire - lead us to the rings, 2 of them to be precise, before he succumbs to injury again and reaches his end, but he goes out a champion.

And then there is this one is about Rudy and his coming dominance:

Century X
80
In the realm the great one of the great realm reigning,
Through force of arms the great gates of brass
He will cause to open, the King and Duke joining,
Fort demolished, ship to the bottom, day serene.

Rudy is the great one, reigning, obviously after several championships, and through the force of his go-go Gadget arms. Then an aging LeBron and Durrant will want to come to Utah (the King and Duke), but instead Rudy will demolish heir fort and send their ship to the bottom, and the Jazz nation will be at peace (day serene).

See it has all been foretold. And so it will come to pass.


Nostradamus laudanda


ut Gobert regnabit in aeternum


Amen

 

[Getting Traded]

Do you even watch Jazz games? They don't play ISO offense at all, they are all about the pass, haha.

Yes, they are about the pass and moving the ball, but they also play a lot of ISO, especially at the end of quarters or for the last shot -- think JJ, Hood, or even Hayward. They all did a lot of ISO, and Burks when he played.