Name a player that wouldve won Stockton & Malone rings.

[Elizah Huge]

It really is a shame Harper’s ego got in the way. He would have been awesome for us.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

When you really take a hard look at the egregiously bad calls made against the Jazz in both the 97 and 98 NBA finals, I’m not sure that any player personnel would have offset the Jordan effect. This is including but not limited to: in 97, allowing Chicago to play a zone, no goaltending called on Pippen for popping the rim on a Jazz shot; in 98 game six alone, two shot clock discrepancies from Bevetta, no call on the Jordan push off on Russell.

David Stern had an agenda to create a mythology and icons and when you look at Jordan (with the help of Nike) no doubt he succeeded.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Wouldn't be NY it would be Detroit. That's where he was before he went to NY. Detroit does it so they wouldn't lose Houston for nothing.

Someone would outbid us.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Sadly a coach that would be a little more flexible would have helped. One that believed in the three just a little more would have been great.

Honestly flipping 5-10 minutes of Hornacek for some additional Shandon Anderson time would have helped too.

Crazy that in the 97-98 season the Jazz were dead last in 3pt attempts per game despite being 5th best at making them. Bryon Russell is one of those dudes who if you put him in the modern era he's probably a drastically more impactful player.

 

[LogGrad98]

Crazy that in the 97-98 season the Jazz were dead last in 3pt attempts per game despite being 5th best at making them. Bryon Russell is one of those dudes who if you put him in the modern era he's probably a drastically more impactful player.

So is Hornacek. And frankly Stockton, who was a great outside shooter. All 3 of them would have been much further ahead in today's game.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

You are not wrong. If Ostertag took the game seriously he could have been a force. He had the body and the skill. Just had that goofy attitude that showed that in the end he really didn't care.

Shaq literally bitch slapped the drive right out of 'Tag.

 

[infection]

I think if Eaton was able to exist for a couple years into the Hornacek era it would have been something.

 

[jom2003]

Vlade Divac.

We picked Blue Edwards before him in 1989 draft.

 

[infection]

Vlade Divac.

We picked Blue Edwards before him in 1989 draft.

We would have quite a few rings if we had Vlade.

 

[jom2003]

We would have quite a few rings if we had Vlade.

lakers would've never gotten kobe.

 

[infection]

lakers would've never gotten kobe.

Yes, and so we would have cleaned up on 96-99 titles, maybe more, and then the DWill teams would have advanced past the Lakers and onto the title in 2008-2010, then we would have retained Deron because he wanted to stay and won a title with Hayward, then Hayward would’ve stayed for the same reason when we drafted Mitchell and won 3 titles just now.

**** Layden for not drafting Vlade.

 

[jom2003]

Yes, and so we would have cleaned up on 96-99 titles, maybe more, and then the DWill teams would have advanced past the Lakers and onto the title in 2008-2010, then we would have retained Deron because he wanted to stay and won a title with Hayward, then Hayward would’ve stayed for the same reason when we drafted Mitchell and won 3 titles just now.

**** Layden for not drafting Vlade.

Nah, Dwill/Booz would've needed Marc Gasol to go past Lakers. If we drafted Marc instead of Fess, Lakers would be screwed *2 cuz they ain't getting Pau without Marc.