We miss Rubio badly! We need him at the point!

[Tragic66]

Yeah, no way we win without a 12% shooter at point.

 

[Sandman822]

I want to see Rubio play well against good teams though. There's plenty of games this season where even if he's shooting poorly he's been a net positive for the team against middling to bad teams, but he's been for the most part pretty bad against the best teams in the league and that's ultimately the reason why the Jazz will probably move on from him in the offseason as those are the games where Mitchell and Gobert need him the most and he hasn't delivered this year.

 

[Miggs]

Rubio blows.

 

[Jingled]

Rubio's now made just 8 of his last 42 shots.

 

[fishonjazz]

Rubio's now made just 8 of his last 42 shots.

That seems like it would be a poor percentage but I'm no mathematician

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[Miggs]

That seems like it would be a poor percentage but I'm no mathematician

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<20%.

 

[Miggs]

That seems like it would be a poor percentage but I'm no mathematician

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Copernifish.

 

[Miggs]

When both Rubio and Exum are out, we lose our 3rd and 5th highest paid players for the team this year... for a total of ~25M
Jazz Salary ~114M
A team like Warriors is paying ~146M
Bucks paying ~132M

We don't necessarily need Rubio or Exum but considering what we are paying them compared to our total salary..It hurts to have them out.. (if pay is supposed to reflect contribution beyond Rookie salaries)

This is why we need to renounce Rubio, trade Exum for a bag of chips, and also try to opt out of Favors and extend him (he’s too valuable to us imo) at a cheaper price per annum. That would free up almost 30M. I’d say go after a stud but I can’t imagine we ever get one.

Sign Satoransky on day one of FA. He’d be a big upgrade over Rubio at this point. Then use the rest of our money (we’d have a significant amount) to sign the best FA scorer/shooter we can. There’s a number of guys that route who’d be a monstrous upgrade over what Exum’s brought to the table. After that, I’d strongly consider re-signing Sef as I think he’s a versatile glue guy who brings great leadership and intangibles and seems like he genuinely likes being here.

Those additions along with a healthy Mitchell for the whole year (he wasn’t right the first two months) should result in a 55 win season or so imo.

 

[Jack Strop]

This is why we need to renounce Rubio, trade Exum for a bag of chips, and also try to opt out of Favors and extend him (he’s too valuable to us imo) at a cheaper price per annum. That would free up almost 30M. I’d say go after a stud but I can’t imagine we ever get one.

Sign Satoransky on day one of FA. He’d be a big upgrade over Rubio at this point. Then use the rest of our money (we’d have a significant amount) to sign the best FA scorer/shooter we can. There’s a number of guys that route who’d be a monstrous upgrade over what Exum’s brought to the table. After that, I’d strongly consider re-signing Sef as I think he’s a versatile glue guy who brings great leadership and intangibles and seems like he genuinely likes being here.

Those additions along with a healthy Mitchell for the whole year (he wasn’t right the first two months) should result in a 55 win season or so imo.

Don't think your math is correct. Once Utah is under the cap, they can only spend up to the cap and then have the room exception to use. So you can't accomplish what you've outlined. Well, I guess if you also renounce Korver. That frees up additional cap space. But this mythical scorer/shooter will probably be a 3rd-tier FA Utah would need to significantly overpay. Might be better for Lindsey to shop at the deadline. He could have a wide array of assets. And tbh, dumping Exum would cost the Jazz an asset. He's always been questionable, now he's damaged goods...again.