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The Dark Days

We suck. The worst part is not one of these guys even remotely appears to have all star potential. You’d think with all these picks someone would’ve hit. Nope.

We have five more months in the season and maybe someone will really develop but I don’t see it. It sucks.
 
I think the Jazz might be 3 or 4 years behind Houston and OKC’s rebuild process. I'm optimistic though now that the Jazz are going deep sea fishing in two strong drafts this year and next.
 
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Keefe said:
We suck. The worst part is not one of these guys even remotely appears to have all star potential. You’d think with all these picks someone would’ve hit. Nope.
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Don't worry, there are still people carrying water for Ainge and his terrible picks. Keyonte is a future 20pt scorer and Cody will become an NBA level 3&D guy. And so on.
 
My biggest problem is that none of the young guys has potential to be anything special. Makes the games hard to watch.
 
The harsh reality about all-out tanking is that you're way, WAY more likely to end up as a perennial awful team than you are to become a contender.

It's a lame strategy. And if you're the type of fan who can't get any satisfaction from cheering for a competitive playoff team unless the team wins it all, you should probably root for a different team.
 
MT Steve said:
The harsh reality about all-out tanking is that you're way, WAY more likely to end up as a perennial awful team than you are to become a contender.

It's a lame strategy. And if you're the type of fan who can't get any satisfaction from cheering for a competitive playoff team unless the team wins it all, you should probably root for a different team.
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What strategy available to us is better, more reliable, or leads to more sustainable success? Even if it is not to build a title contender.

No matter what happens you will have to go through cycles. They can take the edge off of the sucky part if they want but it also lowers the ceiling. Its not about rooting for a playoff team... its about rooting for a team that MIGHT make the play in or a team that outright sucks. There will be down cycles eventually... what is the downside into not leaning into the down cycle? Maybe you hit on a Giannis but you are more likely to become the Bulls/Magic/Wiz (Vuc/Fournier edition).

When you boil it all down every strategy is more likely to end in failure. Pick the least ****** of ****** options.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
When you boil it all down every strategy is more likely to end in failure. Pick the least ****** of ****** options.
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If your definition of "failure" is "didn't win the title", sure.

If your definition of "failure" is "didn't become a competitive playoff team", absolutely not.

Some of you become so enamored with the very rare instances where all-out tanking doesn't end up in complete distaster that you get absolute tunnel vision. When you want to trade a player like Walker Kessler to squeeze out a few more losses, that's when you know you've completely lost the plot.
 
MT Steve said:
The one they've been following through their entire history prior to this tanking era...
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Oh... get extremely lucky drafting in the middle/end of the first round. My dude... they are still trying to do that too. Tanking isn't mutually exclusive. They just haven't hit on a mid first round pick in a while (Walker kinda counts but he is profit from the tear down and rebuild).
 
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