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It’s Windhorst so take it with a grain of salt but they discussed it on the pod today in pretty good length. The mistrust with the trainers and front office is an issue... folks are worried about the 165M ankle, but they should worry about the 165M person... and he isn’t happy with the trainers or front office. This was handled tragically bad and again the front office is nowhere to be found... Quin touched on it for a few seconds then gave a cute quote about Ted Lasso and it changed the subject. The sex machine helps Quin craft his quotes with a boiler plate answer then insert pop culture reference to make people smile and the subject will change.

It would be great if when this **** happens the people paid to handle **** like this would not stand silent. We have like eleventy GMs so I’m not sure who’s day it is but someone should step up... the silence is deafening.
 
I think the Jazz FO handled the Rudy versus Donovan rub after the shut down the right way and I think staying out of it was the best option. I also think Donovan can overreact. That being said, IMO this one is completely on the FO and they screwed up. It is an issue and it needs to be addressed.
 
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It’s Windhorst so take it with a grain of salt but they discussed it on the pod today in pretty good length. The mistrust with the trainers and front office is an issue... folks are worried about the 165M ankle, but they should worry about the 165M person... and he isn’t happy with the trainers or front office. This was handled tragically bad and again the front office is nowhere to be found... Quin touched on it for a few seconds then gave a cute quote about Ted Lasso and it changed the subject. The sex machine helps Quin craft his quotes with a boiler plate answer then insert pop culture reference to make people smile and the subject will change.

It would be great if when this **** happens the people paid to handle **** like this would not stand silent. We have like eleventy GMs so I’m not sure who’s day it is but someone should step up... the silence is deafening.
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Dennis Lindsey is MIA per usual. Really wish the Jazz would move on from him.
 
I still don't understand what happened. Everyone assumed he was ready to play, and then on game-day the training staff performed some tests on Donovan and then changed their minds? Obviously Donovan thought he was ready, and apparently received better (in his eyes) treatment from trainers outside the organization. Do we really give the training staff 100% control over determining if someone is able to play or not?

Entire thing still seems strange to me. Not sure if it's purely bad management (most likely) or partly due to a hard-to-please superstar (definitely possible). Obviously poor communication all-around and reflects horribly on the Jazz.
 
l Abach l said:
Dennis Lindsey is MIA per usual. Really wish the Jazz would move on from him.
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Part of the issue in moving on is you have a Conley negotiation upcoming that is pretty critical to our next couple years... which is really our window. Ryan may bail us out and spend to the moon, but staring down a repeater tax (a pretty heavy one) for a team that wins 1 playoff series... and may struggle to do that... would not justify the spend imo. Which then we start to really erode at the base of this team and look at is DM happy and do we need to start thinking about the rebuild in a couple years.

There are some other potential budget cuts but they will all be fairly disruptive to the roster and locker room. We really need Mike to come in at a solid number and we haven't shown a tremendous ability to do that in negotiations. Avoiding the tax this year would have really helped with the financial planning and we missed it by a couple million.

I just don't understand why DL is teflon and doesn't think he needs to chime in on these issues. The coaches and players need to worry about what is happening on the court... the front office should be the first to chime in on these issues imo. He issued a statement on the Millsap thing... why does he get to no comment here?

This all fits my narrative that some mocked that the front office is a little sloppy... "ha... they'd never mess up the cap math lolz". Well they ****ed up some basic messaging on a routine injury with their star player... soooooo IDK.
 
Sean said:
lmao it's straight up trash referring to Mitchell has Mr. Diva. Some of you fans are just garbage people.

Frankly, Utah doesn't deserve Mitchell. If he smart, he'd probably bail this toxic franchise with their ****** fans before he spends his top years trying to win at a franchise that has been totally *** in the playoffs for most its history.

The trainers did Mitchell dirty. They were the ones who cleared him to play but probably got miffed that he trusted his own trainers more than them and decided to hold him out based entirely on spite. Mitchell called them out for their ******** and they had to quickly change their tone and put it out there he would play Wednesday despite the whole story about him being pulled so late was an apparent result of not liking what they saw (utter ******** because why say he's going to play emphatically knowing there's still two shoot arounds where this supposed issue could resurface again, forcing another about-face and yank him again).

But go on and hate arguably our franchise player.

God, some of you are ****ing morons.
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Literally one person has been calling Mitchell a diva. Not sure what you are ranting about but you certainly did a good job of revealing where your loyalties lie. Not sure why you are on a Jazz fan forum tbh.
 
Jazzbot said:
Eh, I don’t think Donovan’s nearly as popular as he was like a year and a half ago among the fanbase. I think he was the most popular player among the fanbase prior to the Covid issue we had ever seen, or at least top 3, but since last March I think his popularity has lessened quite a bit, and situations like this don’t help it any. The problem is, I think you had some fans not liking it because he was sitting out so long and this fanbase is used to Stockton Malone spoiling them, and now you have some fans feeling like he created more drama here than necessary, which is probably fair to an extent honestly. He has made things far more public and worse than they needed to be on more than one occasion now. Oneye is over the top, but I don’t think Donovan handles himself all that well in difficult situations if you want my honest opinion. I also don’t love that he’s siding with his personal staff and is clearly not in line with the teams staff. That’s never a good thing. It has potential to become a Kawhi situation.
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If he's less popular it's because people are jumping to conclusions over one cryptic twit. The fault in that lies with the FO for not getting out ahead of the **** storm and providing some context.
 
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