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Cooper Flagg wants another year in college

cctrackstar said:
it's like a guy drops his purse full of coins on the ground on the way to give it to a homeless shelter and a bunch of lower middle guys are diving to the ground to grab them before the guy picks them back up. sure, the rich are unfairly rich (lakers) but if we played all our players properly, and tried harder, we aren't the worst team in the nba. in other words, as i've said before and i don't care what people think, but we/the Jazz are LYING. (and stealing basically because the picks should go to teams that need them to save their franchise, not so we can hard shift to the championships.)
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I get where you're coming from, but the NBA is set up a certain way, with certain rules, and the Jazz are working within the framework to optimize for success, to help them overcome certain structural disadvantages.

The question that Ryan answered differently than previous ownership- Is our definition of success consistent winning or a championship? Previous ownership was never willing to sacrifice to get over the hump to a championship and chose consistent success. Ryan has answered he is willing to do things differently in order to optimize for a championship.

That necessitates a different set of compromises, and one of those is managing your roster in such a way that winning the current game on your plate is waaaay down on the list and is sometimes even detrimental. But they aren't actively throwing games or point shaving, just optimizing for development and avoiding giving out minutes in such a way that winning the game is more important than developing the young talent that is on the 'timeline' and if someone has a boo boo, they aren't going to play.

Being so contrary to the previous philosophy, it is pretty glaring, but something the NBA is structured to accommodate, so in no way bad sportsmanship or cheating, just annoying.
 
JazzFever said:
But they aren't actively throwing games or point shaving, just optimizing for development and avoiding giving out minutes in such a way that winning the game is more important than developing the young talent that is on the 'timeline' and if someone has a boo boo, they aren't going to play.
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Actually, they are actively throwing games. Sitting your healthy veterans specifically for the games against other tanking teams is throwing games. Not putting back the best players in the fourth until the very last minutes (while the opponent is erasing your lead/puling away) is throwing games. I saw it multiple times this season and it had nothing to do with optimizing for development.
 
jazznik said:
Actually, they are actively throwing games. Sitting your healthy veterans specifically for the games against other tanking teams is throwing games. Not putting back the best players in the fourth until the very last minutes (while the opponent is erasing your lead/puling away) is throwing games. I saw it multiple times this season and it had nothing to do with optimizing for development.
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Since the coach has specifically called out putting the youngins in ‘difficult situations’ purpose, I think there is at least some evidence to the contrary.
 
NIL had heavily impacted the NFL draft and it is easy to imagine it having big impact on the NBA draft unless some type of cap or limit is placed on college teams. Just one more reason why the draft is a complete crap shoot. Trade for talent, not picks.
 
gomretat said:
NIL had heavily impacted the NFL draft and it is easy to imagine it having big impact on the NBA draft unless some type of cap or limit is placed on college teams. Just one more reason why the draft is a complete crap shoot. Trade for talent, not picks.
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How did the NFL draft get impacted by NIL?
 
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