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Rest Easy, The Jazz Will Be Awful

There's a chance, albeit a bit slim, that the Jazz are actually a touch worse than the Rockets this year. Could be close. I think they're a bit more athletic than we are, and they have a bit more size in their backcourt than we do.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
There's a chance, albeit a bit slim, that the Jazz are actually a touch worse than the Rockets this year. Could be close. I think they're a bit more athletic than we are, and they have a bit more size in their backcourt than we do.
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It’s less about athleticism and size. Young teams that allocate a lot of minutes and possession usage to young developing players will lose a **** ton of games. I think they are a lock for bottom 3… I’m not sure we can even be bottom 5 given the amount of functional nba players we have.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
It’s less about athleticism and size. Young teams that allocate a lot of minutes and possession usage to young developing players will lose a **** ton of games. I think they are a lock for bottom 3… I’m not sure we can even be bottom 5 given the amount of functional nba players we have.
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If the Jazz put Sexton, THT, NAW, Vanderbilt and Kessler on the floor together, that group is going to suck on both sides of the ball. The Jazz have it in them to lose with anyone this year.
 
One aspect of our schedule that could backfire on us is that there always seems to be unexpected upsets at the start of the year. Usually bad teams are playing hard to prove themselves and good teams don't take the regular season as seriously. As a playoff contender I would prefer to have my toughest schedule at the start of the year and as a tanking team it would make sense to have our toughest schedule at the end of the year.

I think our team is a little unique in that we are probably hoping to showcase some of our vets before the trade deadline, in which case it is probably better to have our toughest schedule before the trade deadline so that we can play our winning players, but still lose due to the competition. Hopefully we haven't piled up too many wins by the trade deadline.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
If the Jazz put Sexton, THT, NAW, Vanderbilt and Kessler on the floor together, that group is going to suck on both sides of the ball. The Jazz have it in them to lose with anyone this year.
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As long as Conley, Sexton, JC, Lauri are around they will get 30 min. a night. KO/Vando will be around the 25-30 minutes a night. Leaves little time for THT, NAW, JB to get in there are mess stuff up. Kessler I think is perfectly functional for 12-15 minutes a night. Not sure he is one of those rookies that plays and you are so bad in those minutes that it really hurts you.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
One aspect of our schedule that could backfire on us is that there always seems to be unexpected upsets at the start of the year. Usually bad teams are playing hard to prove themselves and good teams don't take the regular season as seriously. As a playoff contender I would prefer to have my toughest schedule at the start of the year and as a tanking team it would make sense to have our toughest schedule at the end of the year.

I think our team is a little unique in that we are probably hoping to showcase some of our vets before the trade deadline, in which case it is probably better to have our toughest schedule before the trade deadline so that we can play our winning players, but still lose due to the competition. Hopefully we haven't piled up too many wins by the trade deadline.
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Yes and no... some teams will have less to play for end of season so you might get the night where the Clips/Bucks rest everybody. Having a lot of tanking teams scheduled end of year is not great though as those teams will have fully thrown in the towel.

We have a key two game set vs Houston beginning of the year. One game off a back to back. will tell us a lot about our approach this year. Do we rest a bunch of guys one night. Are we able to get the split? Really don't want to go 2-0... those are must lose games.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
If the Jazz put Sexton, THT, NAW, Vanderbilt and Kessler on the floor together, that group is going to suck on both sides of the ball. The Jazz have it in them to lose with anyone this year.
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If you put Markkanen on the floor instead of Vandy it would likely be an even bigger tank unit. I like Markk but it's fairly obvious he needs to play next to a defender who can rebound and do some of the dirty work. The Cavs had him next to 2 defending bigs which was the secret sauce to playing Lauri at the 3 last season.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
There's a chance, albeit a bit slim, that the Jazz are actually a touch worse than the Rockets this year. Could be close. I think they're a bit more athletic than we are, and they have a bit more size in their backcourt than we do.
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And they have incentive to play their best players since their best players are their lottery picks.
 
Hopefully Ryan watches the Victor games and read the report that drafting Vic automatically increases a franchise's value by a half billion.

I think the Lakers played this super smart. Pretty soon teams will be asking for nothing in return to take Russ. They will just want to offload good players. Lowe talked about how that's been the talks between teams now. Basically good teams know these teams want to offload players, but now those teams have less leverage because of how many teams will want to tank
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Hopefully Ryan watches the Victor games and read the report that drafting Vic automatically increases a franchise's value by a half billion.

I think the Lakers played this super smart. Pretty soon teams will be asking for nothing in return to take Russ. They will just want to offload good players. Lowe talked about how that's been the talks between teams now. Basically good teams know these teams want to offload players, but now those teams have less leverage because of how many teams will want to tank
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I have a hard time thinking the Lakers are smart. Like I think this happened on accident if it ends up being smart. They have three tanking teams that could do a Russ deal (maybe 4 with Charlotte I guess). I don't think SA sells at a discount... they famously refused to send Kawhi to the Lakers as well. Unfortunately I don't think Ainge will sell at a discount either. Best hope is still Indiana relenting and doing just one pick.

Still a very real chance they keep Russ and burn a year of Lebron and AD while they wait for a perfect trade that never materializes. I think they have a better market now but curious if the act on it.
 
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