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Report: Jazz ready, willing, able to deal

This is the type of thinking that gets GMs fired. You don't double down on your mistake. You can only work with what you have at the present. It doesn't matter how you got there.

I agree the millers aren’t dumb... they know the circumstances under which Rubio was acquired. Don’t make decisions based on sunk costs.
 
Tyreke Evans could be an interesting fit in Utah imo. He can be had for sure. Rumors were swirling yesterday about him to Boston.
 
Honestly swapping Rubio for Mirotic would change our lives. Assuming Rudy is healthy I think that puts us right back at 50 wins.

Not suggesting a straight swap but just saying the space Rubio takes away and the space Niko would add would have an exponential affect.

We have a great core and I just thought when the injury happened and we started slow that a quick one year tank adding another potential star would make this team incredibly dangerous. Then do the other moves in the offseason - moving Rubio and getting a stretch four. Doesn't have to be Niko.

Stealing Niko for 50 cents on the dollar would be a great start. People would be shocked if they didn't trade him, so if I'm the Jazz I wait them out. Neither team has a ton of urgency, but I'd say they have more than us.

There's a three-team deal there with Denver and Chicago. Something like Rubio to Denver, Niko and Chandler to Utah, JJ and a Denver asset (Malik Beasley?) and maybe a Utah 2nd to Chicago.
 
I agree the millers aren’t dumb... they know the circumstances under which Rubio was acquired. Don’t make decisions based on sunk costs.

They did exactly this tho.. I used to call it a Scrappy-Doo attitude... They didn't maintain discipline, they let the Siren's song known as "Championship aspirations led by Gordon Hayward" delude their view of reality...

Classic Knicks from the early 2000's typa move..

It's not great management, no way, D Lindsey would tell you it himself or he isn't trustworthy imo...

Hayward was an all the eggs in the basket type of move that ultimately was dumb. (unless the plan was to get to this point where we're at now, which I'm gonna say wasn't the plan.....)
 
There's a three-team deal there with Denver and Chicago. Something like Rubio to Denver, Niko and Chandler to Utah, JJ and a Denver asset (Malik Beasley?) and maybe a Utah 2nd to Chicago.

This trade is woefully imbalanced, I'm not gonna really pick it apart but it's unlikely Denver would want to Swap Beasley straight up for Rubio let alone pay more...
 
This trade is woefully imbalanced, I'm not gonna really pick it apart but it's unlikely Denver would want to Swap Beasley straight up for Rubio let alone pay more...

Oops my bad probably meant Faried. I forget what Denver's numbers look like. Idea would be to provide some cap relief but also swap a player who isn't helping (Chandler/Faried) for a player who could help (Rubio)
 
Honestly swapping Rubio for Mirotic would change our lives. Assuming Rudy is healthy I think that puts us right back at 50 wins.

Not suggesting a straight swap but just saying the space Rubio takes away and the space Niko would add would have an exponential affect.

We have a great core and I just thought when the injury happened and we started slow that a quick one year tank adding another potential star would make this team incredibly dangerous. Then do the other moves in the offseason - moving Rubio and getting a stretch four. Doesn't have to be Niko.

Stealing Niko for 50 cents on the dollar would be a great start. People would be shocked if they didn't trade him, so if I'm the Jazz I wait them out. Neither team has a ton of urgency, but I'd say they have more than us.

I like Mirotic for the Jazz a lot but I'm not sure how I feel about giving up on Rubio now that he's starting to figure things out. Not to mention the chemistry he seems to have with Mitchell and the valuable mentoring factor that comes with it.

At this moment I would rather send Favors their way and see how Rubio fares with a stretch 4 first.
 
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