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Small Pieces of KOC's rebuilding plan revealed

mellow

mellow

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Check out this short interview from the combine.

KOC says Jazz are not rebuilding they are remodling. 'We are going to have success with Al, Mislap, and Harris.' The young guys can learn under them, because you don't learn anything from losing.

This seems like fence sitting to me. Either you are competing to win or you are rebuilding. Being mediocre can be self-sustaining--think Milwaukee or Indiana. Some years they are 8th seeds, some years they draft 1oth and they've been this way for years.

I also don't like the idea of rookies learning how to be winners from Al Jefferson and Devin Harris.

Also, noteworthy: Last week I went to Fanz store to buy a T-shirt for the draft party. I pointed at the jerseys and asked the guy when the Raja and Ak jerseys would go on sale.

He said they probably wouldn't since the store just got a shipment of newly printed AK jerseys. He did reveal that KOC had not warned the stores before trading Deron. Deron was a snap decision thing, They've had 7 years to decide on AK, and it looks like he is going to be around for a while.
 
How has the model of trading away legitimate franchise players in favor of non-impact, non-winning, fringe all-star players and sticking with them work out? If we're waiting on the assets we've been given to turn into something, Harris is going to be on the wrong side of 30, playing a game that relies on speed. Sounds water-tight. Better go and re-sign the biggest headache this franchise has ever had to deal with as well. Look out, league.
 
also, i would add that what KOC says publicly should always be viewed as simiply the socially right thing to say. He has never and will never divulge a strategy in an interview. it makes perfect sense to say that AJ, Slap, and Harris are "da men." No one on the team is offended by that statement.

while it makes good fan-fodder to hear from folks who are more open-opinion types, divulging doesn't remotely translate to better success as VP of basketball ops.
 
Also, I don't know if any of that means anything. I don't think "rebuild" is in this organization's vocabulary, so that's worth thinking about.

Also, learning how to win from Harris and JEFFERSON (of all people) is like asking a blind person to teach your kid how to ride a bike.

On that note, that's another reason I would prefer to keep Millsap.
 
All that means is he wants to keep some veterans around so the rookies aren't thrust into the starting lineup right away. Honestly, I think it makes sense.
 
Honestly, I think the best way to develop young players is to let them play. Durant played for TERRIBLE versions of the Sonics/Thunder his first few years and that didn't limit his/or his teams development. If you think Favors is your guy you need to play him. If the Jazz end up drafting a PG, they need to trade Devin Harris.

They sat Deron behind Milt Palacio and Keith McLeod (who weren't even CLOSE as good as Devin Harris) for half of a season and it truly cost us a trip to the playoffs that year.
 
MrBlue said:
Honestly, I think the best way to develop young players is to let them play. Durant played for TERRIBLE versions of the Sonics/Thunder his first few years and that didn't limit his/or his teams development. If you think Favors is your guy you need to play him. If the Jazz end up drafting a PG, they need to trade Devin Harris.

They sat Deron behind Milt Palacio and Keith McLeod (who weren't even CLOSE as good as Devin Harris) for half of a season and it truly cost us a trip to the playoffs that year.
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And may have sewed seeds of deserved ill-will that bloomed enough to implode the organization as it was known...
 
that means we are gonna be a playoff team for the next 5 yrs as we were in the last 5. It sucks that jefferson and harris gonna be the leaders to further teach rookies. We have 2 young players, 3rd pick and still KOC cant dare to use the word Rebuilding. it sucks
 
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