Yeah I would prefer we don't do that. I think it would be one year in purgatory while we waited for a prime return on Donovan. You also lose the ability to trade Bev, Bogey for something good as their deals would expire. But if we wanted to start the season that way and there weren't great offers on Bev/Bogey or our other vets... and if the Knicks or other teams were still digging in their heels then it might be a duct tape solution without a lot of costs attached to it.
IDK... if the return isn't there for Donovan or for the vets that is when it gets interesting. Wouldn't take a whole lot (a guy like Theis) before it looks like an actual team. Preserve the other assets for a while... schedule is pretty rough so I think first half of the year they still wouldn't be above .500 like 30 games into the season and maybe the Knicks up the offer or a team like NOP comes out of the woodwork with an offer (like if CJ got hurt and they still want to win this season).
Yes it is. That is a 35 win team.
Still way too small in the back court. That will be our bane until we get rid of Conley and get someone to replace him that is taller than my mom.
We ain’t a contender though… simply saying it’s still like a .500 team. We have a lot of parts and if we got a couple others to tie the roster together it’s a real team. It’s only a team for a year but just saying…. We could be better than the Onocks next year if we wanted to… and that would be hilarious to me.
So am I. I am just afraid we are going to mistakenly put an ok team on the court that nets us picks in the 13-18 range. Worst case scenario. If we are retooling around Mitchell they need to take it seriously and get better pieces. I mean we got rid of an all-world talent, so what we get back better at least add up to all-world talents, or it was all for naught.
I dont want to retool around Donny either but Locke is simply framing the implications of what more and more folks are saying. Most likely the narrative the Jazz want out there.
