Not only was this year surprising and fun, as I’ve said in other posts, I believe the groundwork has been laid from great ownership, to a great front office, to great coaching/development/training staff and the absolute jackpot of finally landing a bonafide superstar, that we will look back on this season as “the beginning”.
You can bet your *** that the players on this team (especially Donovan) will almost immediately be working on elevating their game and this team to the next level. I have the utmost faith in DL to make the roster tweaks necessary to make this Jazz team a WC Finals worthy squad next year and I’m even more certain in Quin’s ability to coach them up and get them there.
The bottom line is this: We have world class ownership. We have one of the best front offices in the league. I believe Quin, his coaches and player development staff might be the best in the entire league from top to bottom. And now, FINALLY, we have the one thing that all Jazz fans have constantly worried/wondered if we’d ever have: A legit, once in a lifetime type of superstar in Donovan. Not only is he a future top 3 NBA player, he’s an ambassador of goodwill to the rest of the players in the league. His mere attitude and presence will have some very talented players yearning to play alongside him in the coming years.
This indeed is just “The Beginning”. The ride this season was fun, what’s about to happen next will take us to places we’ve never been as an organization or a fan base. As Donovan himself so often says: “Let’s Go”!