Trade deadline discussion

[Jingled]

 

[Avery]

And humble to boot.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Okay. You’ve proven my point. The minivan is gone and you’re still here spewing garbage.

And I’ll be spewing my garbage long after you’re gone

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

This may be the most Infuriating and annoying post deadline tweet we’ve ever gotten to be perfectly honest

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I get what Zanick is saying though.

It is very hard to upgrade this roster. The big difference makers werent affordable to Utah. The minor upgrades arent worth a 1st round pick for a guy who might play 20 mpg.

The biggest fail was not seeing the importance of off-loading Clarkson, but maybe that would be an asset costing move. At this point it would be selling low. Clarkson can probably player better than he is now, and he will be more tradeable as his contract comes closer to the expiration date.

 

[Elizah Huge]

I get what Zanick is saying though.

It is very hard to upgrade this roster. The big difference makers werent affordable to Utah. The minor upgrades arent worth a 1st round pick for a guy who might play 20 mpg.

The biggest fail was not seeing the importance of off-loading Clarkson, but maybe that would be an asset costing move. At this point it would be selling low. Clarkson can probably player better than he is now, and he will be more tradeable as his contract comes closer to the expiration date.

I agree.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

The biggest fail was not seeing the importance of off-loading Clarkson, but maybe that would be an asset costing move.

You mean aside from the cost saving move the jazz made the other day where we gave picks away?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

You mean aside from the cost saving move the jazz made the other day where we gave picks away?

Just got to accept that 2nd rounders are money savings chips for the Jazz, not things they want to use to draft players. If they want a player in the 2nd round, they will have to be buyers on draft day. Which means we will probably draft 10 Hughes/Oni/JWF/Brantleys before we get someone decent.

 

[campaignist]

I get what Zanick is saying though.

It is very hard to upgrade this roster. The big difference makers werent affordable to Utah. The minor upgrades arent worth a 1st round pick for a guy who might play 20 mpg.

The biggest fail was not seeing the importance of off-loading Clarkson, but maybe that would be an asset costing move. At this point it would be selling low. Clarkson can probably player better than he is now, and he will be more tradeable as his contract comes closer to the expiration date.

I agree, except that I think that Clarkson had enough negative value that no one wanted to do it for what the Jazz had available. I've been pretty confident of that for a while, I don't think it was for lack of trying.
I admit I could be wrong. I don't see Ainge hesitating to do it though.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I get what Zanick is saying though.

It is very hard to upgrade this roster. The big difference makers werent affordable to Utah. The minor upgrades arent worth a 1st round pick for a guy who might play 20 mpg.

The biggest fail was not seeing the importance of off-loading Clarkson, but maybe that would be an asset costing move. At this point it would be selling low. Clarkson can probably player better than he is now, and he will be more tradeable as his contract comes closer to the expiration date.

I like JZ. It’s fair… I wasn’t mad. He also seemed really reasonable when talking about NAW. I hope JZ sticks around.

 

[fishonjazz]

I get what Zanick is saying though.

It is very hard to upgrade this roster. The big difference makers werent affordable to Utah. The minor upgrades arent worth a 1st round pick for a guy who might play 20 mpg.

The biggest fail was not seeing the importance of off-loading Clarkson, but maybe that would be an asset costing move. At this point it would be selling low. Clarkson can probably player better than he is now, and he will be more tradeable as his contract comes closer to the expiration date.

This

 

[gomretat]

It’s not even a debate anymore… if folks can’t see it why bother.

Honest question - does that fact that by some accounts we could have traded the same two players and saved millions and millions and even gotten out of the repeater tax not mean anything? This seems obvious to me and I know many folks dont like Locke but listen to his description of what we did versus what we could have done. He has been advocating for weeks that get out of the repeater tax situation and instead we invested in an asset that is low efficiency but with some hope of future potential. Seems like a pretty significant investment to me and clearly not a money move. Locke even proposed that getting out the luxury tax this year was a basketball move because of future flexibility. What am I missing? From the time we signed Favs, resigned Conley, and now this move it is clear that the tax is not the issue with Smith.