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Jazz have arguably the worst bench in the league

Not gonna say I agree with everything OP wrote. Might be on to something though.. The bench is certainly pathetic compared to OKC or Houston..

Lyles could end up contributing more than you think, especially if Pleiss isn't ready for minutes.


OKC has the 17th highest paid player in the league coming off the bench. He dropped 15 and 16 in 24 minutes yesterday.


The Suns bench scored almost 60 points in a loss last night..

At the very least it should be a storyline worth keeping an eye on. I don't know If I have much faith in this bench unit as is, Booker will add some legitimacy..
 
Diamond77 said:
Exum injury happened the first week of August. There was lot of time to find an adequate substitute.

Millsap is a good defender but he does not bring anything else on the table. If had another family name, I'm not sure he would be in the league.
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After the draft and a month after free agency began... had the injury happened earlier he has way more options. At that point rolling forward with what we had was just as good. For instance Jeremy Lin was signed on July 8th.
 
I don't like Millsap much, but recency bias is creeping in. He will have moments this season when his defense helps us. We would have been a bit crowded on the wing had we signed one more guy, especially if Dante was playing.

If Neto gives us similarly solid efforts like he did last night and picks up on some of the nuances (which he seems to be doing quickly) then between him and running three wings we will be fine. AB and Hood can get more minutes than they played last night as well as Ingles... Burke may fall completely out of the rotation.

I'm adjusting my thoughts on Neto... he seems really basketball smart and is a hard worker. He needed to improve his jumper and it seems like he has done so. I wonder if the kid has ever had anything near the development coaching he is getting right now.

I will stand by the same thing I've been saying that we need a better 3rd big at some point who gives our frontcourt versatility and can stretch the floor. Booker is a decent stop gap for now and Lyles could be that.
 
NAOS said:
we have too many cakks and pies.
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This is the problem. If you can really call it a problem. We need patience. Hood, gobert, Exum are all young and neto/pleiss/Lyles are rookies.

Too many caakks, NAOS says.
 
They were trash last night (as a whole), but even as bad as Trey is I can't imagine him being that awful all season. If he is they need to ditch him for anything and use their assets to get a quality player at the deadline.
 
I guess the front office needs to decide how much they want to put into this season. Is it playoffs or bust? Do we sacrifice assets to help us this season? Or do we let our top end carry us as far as they can this year and prop them up in the offseason?
 
fgcamel said:
I guess the front office needs to decide how much they want to put into this season. Is it playoffs or bust? Do we sacrifice assets to help us this season? Or do we let our top end carry us as far as they can this year and prop them up in the offseason?
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I don't think it's playoffs or bust. Compete and improve or bust would be a better bet.
 
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