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Jazz Locker-room Cleanout & Exit Interviews 2016

"Boler: Dennis has told me the Jazz cannot be in perpetual rebuild mode. "

I agree, good to hear. Now what are you going to do about it DL. Cake is baked, time to bust it out. Make a trade/signing to improve this team.
 
I just drove past ZBBC, even the sky is crying today.

Dennis O'Lindsay: Close games are a zero sum game, if you add us the losses and the wins they equal each other over time. The true measure of a championship caliber team is the ability to blow out other teams so that the team doesn't play in close games.

Quin: The one area I feel like we can make a marked improvement is on the defense end. If you compare us over the game to the end of the game, we just aren't very good at the end. The game changes at the end, fouls that would be called in the first quarter, won't be called in the end of the fourth. We need to coach our players and help them understand it is a different game.

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Quin alluding to what I concluded in my thread from a couple days ago. Our defense was very poor at the end of close games.
 
Quin: Some of the games final scores look like it was a close game but it really wasn't. Other games we did have a shot. We did not defensive rebounds down the stretch. Another thing is we did not shoot free-throws well.
 
Per Tony Jones Twitter: "Dennis Lindsey said the team isn't championship caliber, but is playoff competitive."

"Dennis Lindsey said he may use draft picks to attain a veteran, if opportunity arises"



Also, Snyder commenting about needing to close games better on both ends of the floor.
 
DOL: We have number of picks, but we may not use them if the analysis says we ought to use them to get a veteran. We will not arbitrarily try to speed up the process or slow it down, or to use a catch phrase "skipping steps".

We have to get away from rationalize, and get into what is real. The worst thing we can do is overreact. Greg Miller told Dennis, " We are operators, not traders."
 
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