Rate the Off-season.

[Shad]

Everything is pretty much summed up for all the big timers going places. Everyone will pick pieces from what's left of the agents and call it a summer. So where do YOU grade our off season?

Honestly, the jazz were one of the bottom tier teams. We got Rubio, Donovan (who I think looks great), Bradley, and Goss.

I can't see anyone giving us anything higher than a D+ and that might be pushing it. Even signing some random pieces can salvage what our summer has been. We are definitely worse and I see us being around the mid to lower pack in the West. If gobert gets injured probably near the bottom honestly.

 

[Jazz Spazz]

Why would you do this?


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[Ferguson_Mellochill]

We lost Hayward, a star player and legitimate scorer. We now need to take a step back and reset the roster based around our younger talent.

 

[Magic Spray]

I mean I can't decide if it was an A or an A+.

 

[jjscap]

time will tell if Hayward will live up to that contract and we drafted well. Overall I'm not unhappy.

 

[fishonjazz]

Idk.
I'm going with meh

 

[Rubashov]

In a word;

****

 

[Jazz_junkie]

Fell somewhere between my wife jamming a unexpected finger up my a** and herpes.

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[SCS]

I'll rate it when it's over.

 

[karl malone]

Losing Hayward was obviously devastating, but removing that from the equation, I believe DL has had a great off-season thus far.

*He turned a possible bust in Lyles + the #24 pick into a potential impact player, who fits this team perfectly skill + attitude-wise

*He also moved up for Bradley, who seems capable of eventually developing into a productive traditional backup big (although I question whether this is the direction he would've taken had he known Hayward's intentions)

*Obviously the jury is still out on NWG, & while he may not be off to a good start, I believe he showed enough skill/savy in college to justify showing him patience.

*He turned a likely late 1st rd pick into 2 years of one of the best passing/defending PG's in the league in a very reasonable contract...incredible value.

*He also retained a key member of the team (also on a reasonable contract) who should be instrumental during our transition as a team.

*He also allowed Mack to walk (which opens up valuable playing time) while avoiding commiting significant money to Hill, which has the potential to eventually turn into a bit of an albatross.

All in all, DL did everything (as far as I can tell) to give us the highest likelihood to keep Hayward & I'm not sure we can fault him for the fact that it didn't happen (assuming he didn't ignore the writing on the wall).

It would have been interesting to see the difference in approach had he been able to operate under the knowledge that Hayward wasn't returning, but I'm looking forward to seeing what type of approach he elects to go with from here on out.

 

[t.work]

I'm more excited about the upcoming season than I was for the last one. Sums it up for me.

 

[karl malone]

*savvy