Rest Easy, The Jazz Will Be Awful

[Elizah Huge]

Speaking of the Houston Rockets, here are the young players they've assembled in the past two drafts:

2021 Draft
- Jalen Green
- Alperen Sengun
- Usman Garuba
- Josh Christopher

2022 Draft
- Jabari Smith
- Tari Eason
- Tyty Washington

Combined with Kevin Porter Jr., who was acquired during the same timeframe, that's a very solid young team with two potential All Stars and nearly everyone on Rookie Scale.

They owe their 2024 and 2026 1sts to OKC. Both are top-4 protected though but it’s extremely likely at least one of those convey.

 

[sip]

They owe their 2024 and 2026 1sts to OKC. Both are top-4 protected though but it’s extremely likely at least one of those convey.

It is crazy how bad that Chris Paul trade was. Not only did they trade the better player but gave up a ton of assets to get rid of him.

 

[Elizah Huge]

It is crazy how bad that Chris Paul trade was. Not only did they trade the better player but gave up a ton of assets to get rid of him.

Yep. Then OKC flipped him for another first.

 

[fishonjazz]

I'm not sure if we are.

Are we deeper than Houston? Yes

Are we more talented than Houston? No

I just think our complete lack of shot creation is going to be super tough to overcome.

He was agreeing with you that we gonna suck.


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[Saint Cy of JFC]

He was agreeing with you that we gonna suck.


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No, he was saying we will have a bottom 5 record but the games will be competitive.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If we shoot 25% from three all year we gonna suck. We will obviously shoot much better than that. The team is going to look really rough for a bit with so many new parts, a new coach, etc.

Not sure 1 preseason game is enough to declare us to be bottom 3-4. I mean the Suns lost to an Australian team.

 

[seattlejazzfan]

If we shoot 25% from three all year we gonna suck. We will obviously shoot much better than that. The team is going to look really rough for a bit with so many new parts, a new coach, etc.

Not sure 1 preseason game is enough to declare us to be bottom 3-4. I mean the Suns lost to an Australian team.

to a team of americans - who couldn't stick in the nba - playing in the australian league.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

If we shoot 25% from three all year we gonna suck. We will obviously shoot much better than that. The team is going to look really rough for a bit with so many new parts, a new coach, etc.

Not sure 1 preseason game is enough to declare us to be bottom 3-4. I mean the Suns lost to an Australian team.

Suns ****ed too tho

 

[KqWIN]

Let's be real here, we did not need a preseason game to rest easy. You just needed 5 seconds to look at who is on the roster lol.

 

[kcgar]

No, he was saying we will have a bottom 5 record but the games will be competitive.

What? That's not what he said at all. He was meaning that we will be fighting other teams for a top 5 pick.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

What? That's not what he said at all. He was meaning that we will be fighting other teams for a top 5 pick.

Crazy how the person I was actually talking to isnt trying to argue w/ me about this.

 

[KqWIN]

The numbers are actually very optimistic about this Jazz team. Just using DARKO and some basic minutes projections, it has the Jazz at 37.6 wins. This is obviously not a perfect way of doing things, but it's somewhat notable IMO. When putting in the minutes for players I realized that there are actually not going to be a ton of minutes for some of the younger/end of bench players. Even with conservative estimates for the old guys, there's just a lot of players on this team.