looking Back on Things now how do you feel about the Playoffs?

[Thee Jazz Fan]

I'm a big believer in 8th seed teams developing a sort of swagger. Our core now knows they can compete in this league-- they've made the playoffs. Confidence is an amazing thing to have, and I don't feel there's such thing as 'too early' when it comes to gaining a winning mentality. A winning attitude is a good thing to have, and its what makes our franchise great.

For some reason, I feel like a lot of Jazz fans think our rebuilding window is closing soon. We've got a looong way to go. If we don't get a lotto pick this season, we'll probably get one next season. Most teams take four seasons to get four lotto picks- we got four picks in two seasons. If anything, we're still ahead of schedule. Compiling lotto pick after lotto pick isn't exactly the answer. Our biggest priority is making sure our lotto picks fit together, and gain chemistry.

Right. We have our core for the future. Now we need a good pg. If we can't get Marshall this year, it will be hard to get that in the coming years in the draft as PKM says the pg talent is weak in the coming years.

The draft is the right way to build a team as a small market. We've done that now we need to use our other assets and money to get a decent pg and great roll players and call it a team.

 

[Dr. Jones]

^^^^^^^^ you got it.

 

[mellow]

I like Freakazoids approach of wait and see, it is very unusal for a fans message board, I'm becoming more convinced that freak is Matt.

My only argument against making the playoffs is that the Jazz made the playoffs with a bunch of guys that don't figure into the 2-yr plans. I know 2yrs in the NBA is a long time, and there is no guarantee that any of the jazz players would still be on the roster in 2014, but it is clear that Kanter, Favors, Milsap, and Jefferson won't be on the team together in 2014 so I'm not convinced there can be a long term positive impact from Al playing 40 minutes and getting the ball on every possesion. Hope I am wrong.