The question is simple. Compared to the VALUATION of where we thought our future would be with in total assets (from the trades or otherwise), have the prospects of our future valuations changed since the summer of 2022? If so, in which way?
Has our future position gotten better, worse, or stayed the same since trading Rudy/Donovan?
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homeytennis
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Tanking sucks. Maybe Cooper turns into Adam Morrison and the No, 5 pick into Stockton or Malone. I compared Cooper's stats this season to two guys that won't get drafted: Richie Sanders of BYU and Tyson Degenhardt of Boise State and our two non-drafted guys compared decently to Cooper and both had instances where they out shined him. For what it's worth, Degenhart played in the NCAA tourney last season vs Cody and outshined him. I know faint praise but this was a dark night in Jazzland. Heck even my neighbor kid outrebounded Cooper and my neighbor kid is a 6'4" two guard that played for Idaho State. I'm not saying the Jazz should draft him either. I'm not looking forward to the tank next season.
Worse. We can go on forever about how unlikely it was to win with Don and Rudy, and to be clear I don’t think that was a guarantee at all, but I still found that path more likely to find success. Finding that Aaron Gordon type trade or Desmond Bane/Jaden McDaniels draft pick is very hard and doesn’t guarantee the ring, but I think we were in striking distance. Better execution on the margins would have gotten us further.
I think our current path is simply more unrealistic and we’d need a lot of luck to get to point at which we had one player like Don or Rudy. Lauri has been the only big revelation, but it came at the cost of severely harming our tanking chances years one and two. We got away with it year 3, but it still didn’t result in elite prospect and it came at the cost of damaging Lauri’s value high can’t be reclaimed without more damage to tanking.
I think our current path is simply more unrealistic and we’d need a lot of luck to get to point at which we had one player like Don or Rudy. Lauri has been the only big revelation, but it came at the cost of severely harming our tanking chances years one and two. We got away with it year 3, but it still didn’t result in elite prospect and it came at the cost of damaging Lauri’s value high can’t be reclaimed without more damage to tanking.
Of course it is worse now: we were so excited about all of those endless picks we got (and the vets we could trade for more picks!) but so far they turned into Keyonte, Brice, Filipowski and Collier. There is no sure future starter among all of them. And the future MN/CLE picks don't look to be good either.
Bawse Dawg
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Further away than ever. Totally directionless with no end in sight
Thee Jazz Fan
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We’d be in good shape had we made the necessary moves before the season started after we traded DM and Gobert. 10-3 start was devastating.
the most obvious direction now is to try to unload the players that no longer fit our timeline (Clarkson, markkanen, collins) and get even worse.
FalseFlagg K
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we have a future ?? clear as mud
jope
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Buckle in for a decade-long rebuild just to maybe get back to where we started (We had the best record in the league there for a good bit with Don and Rudy). Toiling in meaningless games for years on end is what the majority on this forum were clamoring for ad infinitum. Came for cooper, and all we got was this lousy t shirt
Only way out is to get the guy. We were out of ways to get over the hump when we sold on Rudy and Donovan, but did not maximize the 2023 year well. If we can get some sort of premium asset from Lauri and hit big on our pick this year maybe this is still salvageable, otherwise think we're looking at a rough few years with very little to look forward to.
it would help if we don't waste our top pick again on a **** player (see last two drafts)