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Jazz Offseason Plan
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Ineptimusprime
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The sad thing is, my above described offseason would make more sense than whatever the **** the FO was doing last offseason.
Problem is he's not wrong
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Well I feel like the jazz don't always draft poorly. I think Rudy and Mitchell were pretty good picks for when we took them.
I also don't think that we don't ever draft for defense. I don't think we drafted Udoka because he is similar to Jokic or something. I feel like we drafted him for his defense more than his offense.
I mean much of his post was correct but he was also tryimg to be as negative as possible and go worst case scenario.
We actually had a pretty dang good team this past season imo. I don't think you can do EVERYTHING wrong constantly (like his post seemed to insinuate) and have the #1 seed and best record in the league, defensive player of the year, 3 all stars, 6th man of the year (and runner up), coach of the year candidate, and runner up for executive of the year. Plus I like our new owner and enjoyed the addition of Dwayne Wade.
But ya, what a crappy franchise that can't get anything right. Jazz just totally suck top to bottom and I'm sure everything they will do (or not do) this off season will be the worst thing ever.
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Here's the Jazz payroll over the next few years, they really need Trent Forrest, Hughes, and another draft pick or two to work out during that time, and hope to find some talent like Ingles again or something. Re-sign Mike and there's no cap space any time soon. I really don't know exactly what I'd do. If you don't re-sign Mike you could open yourself up for some cap space in a next summer, but obviously you put yourself on the hot seat with Donovan, and Rudy gets another year older. Sometimes it feels like the best realistic route is take a step back for a year (or two) and regather for a real run, but I don't think Mitchell would go for it, nor do I think you have the time to do it with him. Would love if that was a straight 5 year contract with no option about right now, it's still truly unbelievable they gave him that and yes it's going to bite them in the *** when it comes down to it.
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The Jazz are and have always been a solid franchise, now go from good to great for a few years.
Great post
Yeah, to be clear there was some embellishment and not every single thing was dead on, but....
I hate this mentality of "well we could have it worse, look at all the stuff we got out of it". Well we didn't get a chip and that's why you do it.
Is that a tough bar to set of "chip or failure"? Sure, but SO many of our issues (no wing defenders, paying Fav's too much and drafting Doke etc etc) were pretty obvious to many people, yet we ran in headfirst to the playoffs happy having already wrapped up the ole consolation prize of regular season hero's.
I just dont really get a ton out best record, 3 all-stars, 6th man, DPOY (actually, listing them all out and then knowing we got bounced yet again in the semi's hurts worse) when it all amounts to the same result as a ton of other teams.
*shrug*
If you take a step back Donovan will ask for a trade next offseason. There are decent avenues the Jazz could take to reroute the ship but it’s going to take a couple years and at least one season of a big step back to do so. The issue is, the dude you lavish over will ask for a trade if you try to take the foot off the gas for a season or two and steer the ship in a different direction. If you knew for sure you could have Donovan another 5/6 years and he wouldn’t throw a fit if you got worse for a couple years you could do it, the Jazz don’t have that luxury and there’s no indication of it at all. They could completely re-work the roster to be more Donovan centric for the future but it would take a couple down years, and I don’t think he’d be okay with that. He’s committed to winning him a championship, not the Jazz.
Don’t re-sign Mike, gauge the market for Rudy, let a few contracts drop, open up cap space for a year or two from now and add longer wings, but you’re looking at 2 seasons of not being a contender, before getting back to possibly being a contender and they do. not. have. that. time.
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Should’ve included a shoutout to Matt Thomas
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I haven't seen one person disrespect DM. You've clearly lost your ability to be objective on anything related to DM. DM is a top 10 player in my mind, but he isn't the greatest player that has ever played as you seem to think. His next step is finishing at the rim at a more respectable %. Some occasional defense would be nice.