What message is the Jazz’s approach sending to the rest of the league?
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"These guys thought they were going to fight for the playoffs. That’s why Jordan Clarkson opted in to stay in Utah, that’s why players have been understanding about changing roles and minute distribution and rotation experimentation."
"If players make decisions based on what they’ve seen over the last two seasons, they could believe that they will either be stuck after the trade deadline on a team that isn’t going to prioritize winning or possibly end up traded away to a non-contending team."
"I realize that we are only in year two of the Jazz’s rebuild and that expectations for this team were not any higher than the play-in tournament, but at some point the Jazz are going to need to start playing to win, even if at first it means middling success.
I hope that when they finally do decide to go for it, the players are still bought in."
SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHTS.
The article pinpoints perfectly the troubles with the approach is having, or could have