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DA is acquiring as many pieces as he can find on good value that fit around a heliocentric playmaking ball-hog superstar.

He has also collected 3 practice level ball hogs to develop those guys.
/sarcasm
 
fishonjazz said:
Patience. Rebuilds usually take time.
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The silver lining of not being bad enough for a top 5 pick last year was everyone saying that at least it would be a short rebuild, and we'd be a decent team again soon, many thought that would be this season, even.

Now it's harder than ever to gauge where we really are as a team. It's a really bad roster outside of Lauri. I think we feel worse about the roster now than at any point last year.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
The silver lining of not being bad enough for a top 5 pick last year was everyone saying that at least it would be a short rebuild, and we'd be a decent team again soon, many thought that would be this season, even.

Now it's harder than ever to gauge where we really are as a team. It's a really bad roster outside of Lauri. I think we feel worse about the roster now than at any point last year.
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Yep. We were wrong. Rebuilds usually take time.
 
r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t said:
especially when you're whiffing on 2/3 of the draft picks.
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Draft picks usually take time to show whether they were whiffs or not. We might have whiffed on all 3. Or all 3 might have been fantastic picks. And anything else between is possible. Just not enough time or data to make a solid evaluation.
 
fishonjazz said:
Yep. We were wrong. Rebuilds usually take time.
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Oh, I thought you were firmly in the camp of this team will be better, because teams like this tend to get better. I didn't know you had moved from your position so strongly after seven games.

But we do agree!
 
Jazz tore down their previous roster and got assets for all their key players. Now they're rebuilding. I think the Jazz wanted a top 6 or 7 pick last year. They screwed up, won too many games, and ended up 9th. Expect the Jazz to add lottery picks this year and next, although next year the Jazz could also potentially get a lottery pick courtesy of Cleveland.

Jazz are being opportunistic. Their timeline isn't set yet and won't be until they see a strong core emerge. So far, I think they like Lauri and Keyonte. Everyone else is up in the air.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
Jazz tore down their previous roster and got assets for all their key players. Now they're rebuilding. I think the Jazz wanted a top 6 or 7 pick last year. They screwed up, won too many games, and ended up 9th. Expect the Jazz to add lottery picks this year and next, although next year the Jazz could also potentially get a lottery pick courtesy of Cleveland.

Jazz are being opportunistic. Their timeline isn't set yet and won't be until they see a strong core emerge. So far, I think they like Lauri and Keyonte. Everyone else is up in the air.
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Finishing with the 9th pick instead of 6th to draft someone like Ausur may have *potentially* cost the Jazz a year on the rebuild.
I agree the Cleveland situation isn't looking too great for them (good for us though). The rumors about Donovan leaving won't go away. As good as Mobley looks on the defensive end he just looks way too mechanical offensively to be a #1 franchise type.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Oh, I thought you were firmly in the camp of this team will be better, because teams like this tend to get better. I didn't know you had moved from your position so strongly after seven games.

But we do agree!
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Ya in the post you quoted i said I was wrong. I thought we would make the playoffs this season.
Its just weird. Last year with basically the same roster we were trying to lose at the end of the season and beating teams like boston and the nuggets. We never ever got blown out. Now you basically take that same team that struggled to lose and never got blown out and add john collins and keyonte george to the rotation and we are suddenly the worst team in the league. I didn't see that one coming for sure.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
Ok then! Glad we got this cleared up. Dunno what got into me... I mean, it's obvious that the roster has been constructed in the most logical manner possible and Ainge has been very open and clear as to what the short and long term goals are for this team.

Thanks for a thoughtful, well argued reply!
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I didn't respond more extensively to your post because, scout's honor, it's one of the stupidest ****ing takes I've ever read on any board. I'm not sure if you were stoned, in the throws of a manic episode, or fresh off a recent hangout with Hotnickkk, but this is the Utah Jazz version of a Q-Anon Karen, and I wouldn't respond more seriously to her either.

So here's my response:

--Ainge was voted, by his peers, as the best front office executive in the league.
--He is hyper competitive.
--He has built two perennially competitive challenger teams from nothing.
--He cares more about the success of the team and the franchise than you do, because his name and reputation is attached to it.

Other than his draft picks, one of which appears to be a top five player in this draft and insisting on Lauri, Kessler and Ochai in his trades, he hasn't used any of his assets yet. The Jazz are the most asset-rich team in the entire league.

Stop being annoying and let the man cook.
 
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