Do the Jazz really have enough talent to compete?

[Crawlnstall]

Utah needs some help, the bench is thin and our starters still struggle at times, usually in the 1st half. We should be better by the end of the year as we learn to play together. But we are still missing 1 mre player that can take over a game for us. However we are only in the 2nd year of a rebuild...even though we should've started this rebuild when we traded Dwil

 

[homeytennis]

Ingles is the symptom. He was a waiver wire guy and he's in the rotation. That says it all.

 

[Deleted member 365]

No.

We still need a PG.
We need a few more shooters.
We need another big. Kanter is too flawed and Evans is worthless.

 

[GVC]

It's not lack of talent, it's lack of intelligence.

Intelligence and motor/toughness/competitiveness are talents. I actually think they're harder to improve upon than physical tools/skills.

 

[cowhide]

My bad. Durant was in his 3rd year, westbrook 2nd, and harden 1st. not that big of a difference imo... our core had been around longer

Is any one of our draft picks better than those three guys? NO! When you draft, you have to get a little lucky and make good choices. I am hoping that Hayward continues to improve and get better. He is very close to westbrook and harden but he still isn't there yet. He has to do it longer even though I think overall he has skills that both westbrook and harden don't have, he isn't the scorer like those two are. He has shown improvement but he needs to make an all-star game or two before he is considered on westbrook and harden level. The Jazz have no player who even looks close to being a Durrant.

I was excited about Exum and still love his potential but he is years away from being the player I hope he can become. I don't know if he has the drive or "ego" to become a star player. He hasn't even shown he can be a very good player yet. He has shown some potential but lately he seems too passive to think he is going to just develop this "I am the man" kind of player. I hope he does because the Jazz need him to be an all-star caliber player down the line for them to compete in the Western conference.

 

[b_line]

Intelligence and motor/toughness/competitiveness are talents. I actually think they're harder to improve upon than physical tools/skills.

Enes kanter is exhibit a of this theory.