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Jazz hire Celtics Assistant GM Austin Ainge as new President of Basketball Operations

NUMBERICA said:
Great, now I am terrified.
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I obviously wasn't in the room, but after the question was asked about if we would be tanking, it felt super awkward. Basically the media guy asked, "how do you feel about the previous regime, who are all still there, including your dad, being unethical on order to improve their lottery odds." Then Austin without blinking basically threw everyone under the bus including his boss right next to him.
 
gomretat said:
In my view, the people enjoying this are like lemmings just buying into a narrative that is has been sold by the FO and supported by the BYU zealots who think Danny can do no wrong because of where he played college ball.
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The Jazz didn’t invent bottoming out as a method to develop their youth and amass lottery picks and there is more than enough evidence to suggest that that is a viable plan, if not the safest plan to rebuild.

Spinning a weird narrative completely void of fact that ***** on others to make sense of your inability to understand or comprehend is not the flex you think it is.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I obviously wasn't in the room, but after the question was asked about if we would be tanking, it felt super awkward. Basically the media guy asked, "how do you feel about the previous regime, who are all still there, including your dad, being unethical on order to improve their lottery odds." Then Austin without blinking basically threw everyone under the bus including his boss right next to him.
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Nothing about this sounds good to me unless this is an orchestrated ruse… which also doesn’t sound good to me.
 
KqWIN said:
I'm not a tanking guy, but no way we try to build forward in this western conference when our pick is only top 8 protected. One more year at least before you end the tank, and if you don't like it you shouldn't have half tanked for two years.
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You are saying every thought I had or wish I had today.
 
Dybantsa at BYU. Carlos Boozer added to the staff. Jazz spent 2+ seasons tearing down. Their draft pick is top-8 protected.

Sure looks to me like the Jazz are positioning themselves to draft high next year.
 
Best lineup the Jazz could assemble without giving up good picks

PG: Tyus Jones
SG: RJ Barrett
SF: Kuminga
PF: Markkanen
C: Kessler

Bench: Filipowski, Tre Johnson (or whomever at #5), Keyonte, Collier, Hendricks,

The issue is that this is easily the worst defensive team in the NBA.

Getting Kuminga likely involves doing a fairly complex sign-and-trade (with like the Nets absorbing money to keep the Warriors' payroll low) where the Jazz may have to give up a mediocre first as well.

Could instead trade for Jrue and use the MLE on Kuminga instead of Tyus Jones but Jrue's contract is just horrible.
 
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