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How should the Jazz use their extra draft picks?

How should the Jazz use their excess of draft picks?

  • Trade for a star

    Votes: 22 44.9%

  • Move up in the draft

    Votes: 11 22.4%

  • Trade for rotation players

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Use them all to draft players

    Votes: 11 22.4%

  • Other (comment below)

    Votes: 4 8.2%
  • Total voters
    49
RyGuy said:
This exactly why I'm a proponent of trading up in the draft. I get that it stings to package a bunch of picks. As fans we like to believe that all those future picks will be high value and turn into great assets. But we have such an excess we actually can't roster all those picks. And the 2027 and 2029 Cavs and Wolves picks might be top 5 or top 10 so we should probably keep those. But the 2025 picks and 2027 Lakers pick should be on the table for trades. I'd like to trade up in the draft and hopefully get a young star on a rookie contract with long term control.

But it is a much higher risk than trading for an established star. The problem is I don't think the Jazz are quite ready to trade for an established star. Let's not go all in early like the Cavs and Wolves in regards to getting a star. Let's instead gamble in the draft and hopefully get the next Kawhi Leonard or Jimmy Butler and then go from there.

Also our 3 picks this year should be on the table for trades. After all everybody says there's a big drop off after the top 8. We're at 9,16, and 28. Let's make some moves and get top end talent on a rookie contract with long term control
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Wouldn’t it have been easier to tank harder during the season to move up?
 
Trading up is not always possible. You have to find a team who wants to do that. I m not against giving up one of the picks if there is a guy the Jazz really want but if you miss then giving up the pick hurts a lot more. No on role players. I choose all the picks to be used since I was only thinking about this year and the Jazz have plenty open slots. Of course you trade if you can get a superstar but no team is going to trade a young star for picks. I am excited about the Jazz and cannot wait for the lottery order to be determined. Who knows the Jazz move up and get the star the easy way.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Yes, of course, but you are playing it wrong. And maybe it's not a fun game so that's fine.

Maybe a better way to phrase the question is what way do you hope or envision our pick stash being used?

It feels like most of the talk has been around using the picks to trade for the next available star, but maybe we are seeing that isn't the best use of those picks after all.
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I think a star is third on the list for me… I think the most efficient way to use picks is to acquire youngish starters in long term deals… like Huerter, White, Jerami Grant (not a long term contract). I think you get more value that way… with stars it’s seems like you have to stack so much that it becomes a bad deal and they tend to only be available if they have 1-2 years left. I wouldn’t mind trading for a star on the cheap if they were on a one year deal… then hopefully they stick around.

I think our stars will mostly come from the draft.. so if they have a hunch I wouldn’t mind them trading up for a guy. I actually think we will pick players with those picks more than move them for stars.
 
It’s wise to keep the picks and not just jump at the first chance to parlay them into a player. Never underestimate how valuable these can be to us for facilitating salary dumps.
 
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