The Jazz, as currently constituted and with better health, should be a top-5 team in the west going forward. Dallas is fading. Memphis is aging and risks losing Conley. Houston needs to reboot. A healthy Jazz team is likely better than Portland. OKC's fate is up in the air depending on what KD and Westbrook plan to do.
So if the Jazz don't mind playing second fiddle to Golden State, San Antonio and the Clippers, all they need to do is stand pat. And in fact, it's unlikely that anything they do changes their standing all that much. If they want to aim higher and try to keep pace with the up-and-coming T'wolves, they likely have to be more aggressive and creative, such that trading a player like Favors or Hayward for another talent become options.
