What are you most concerned about with the Jazz for the 25/26 season?

[SoberasHotRod]

Fans are irrational and we worry about dumb stuff. Even if it isn't a big concern, what are most worried about for this coming season?

Can only pick one, but please comment if there is something I missed.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

How could it be anything other than the young guys suck and don’t look like future pieces in a tanking/rebuilding year

 

[homeytennis]

I really worry about Cody and Tay Henny looking like dog poo and two years of tanking essentially flushed down the drain.

 

[bigmike]

This one feels pretty clear cut. We know we will suck, the question is, do we have anyone we'd like to build around / carry forward in a future core.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Lottery luck (or lack there of)

 

[NAOS_pt2]

Lottery luck (or lack there of)

This.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Lottery luck (or lack there of)

I guess I kind of consider that as post-season, but yes, would suck if there are only 3-4 clear cut franchise players and we don't win the lottery again.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I guess I kind of consider that as post-season, but yes, would suck if there are only 3-4 clear cut franchise players and we don't win the lottery again.

Yeah, if we are talking strictly in season, it would be someone having another devastating injury ala Hendricks last year.

 

[Shad]

Winning too much

 

[KqWIN]

Definitely the outlook of the young players.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Yeah, if we are talking strictly in season, it would be someone having another devastating injury ala Hendricks last year.

That one is too awful to even think about.

 

[mncstr]

A couple of things... I think we need this lottery pick this year, and my fear is that we play the veterans too much that we drop to beyond the 8th pick.

Also, that we trade Kessler or Markkanen for bad return value or take on worse value (future money or worse players) in trading Anderson, Love or Nurkic.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

I'm definitely a worrier, and so to some degree I'm worried about all of these things even if some are contradictory.

For example, I really am worried about watching a terrible product this year and being the worst team. I own a lot of Jazz gear and it's not fun living out of state and repping the worst team in the league.

At the same time I worry about Lauri and Kessler being awesome, Keyonte taking the third year leap, Hardy coaching to win, and being just good enough to lose our pick.

I shouldn't simultaneously be worried about both things and yet I am. To be a fan is to be illogical I guess.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I don’t have concerns. Concerns are for losers.

 

[gomretat]

Having no one to build around is a much bigger problem at this point than winning more games than expected.

 

[LogGrad98]

No one needs to worry about the lottery. It doesn't matter if we get the worst record, all the way to the 8th, no matter what we will end up with a pick at #5 or later. They will make sure the Lakers or Knicks or Heat or Bulls or someone else will get the top picks. Probably another top 3 pick for Dallas in the works for that highway robbery of a trade. That is the NBA way.


Edit: oh yeah, I forgot about Tatum's injury. The Celtics will definitely end up with a top 3 pick, likely #1. NBA has gotta get the legacy teams back on top.

 

[Rubashov]

We know we will suck,

Great quality in a date, terrible quality in a sporting franchise. We were unwatchable most of last year we will probably be worse this year. I'm having a hard time locating my enthusiasm (write your own punchlines for that one)

No one needs to worry about the lottery. It doesn't matter if we get the worst record, all the way to the 8th, no matter what we will end up with a pick at #5 or later. They will make sure the Lakers or Knicks or Heat or Bulls or someone else will get the top picks. Probably another top 3 pick for Dallas in the works for that highway robbery of a trade. That is the NBA way.


Edit: oh yeah, I forgot about Tatum's injury. The Celtics will definitely end up with a top 3 pick, likely #1. NBA has gotta get the legacy teams back on top.

We will be unwatchable all year and the Celtics, Knicks and Mavs will get the top 3 picks, this is the way.

(I wanted a Mandalorian meme but they all suck.)

 

[kabenac]

I went with OTHER - I'm mostly concerned about locker room strife/bad attitudes.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

I went with OTHER - I'm mostly concerned about locker room strife/bad attitudes.

Can you elaborate? Are there players or situations that you are specifically concerned about?

 

[GunterD]

My primary hopes for this season are that 1) Ace do really well, 2) we keep our pick, and 3) that we don't have to do the gross blatant "lose on purpose" thing we did last year to pull it off. 1 and 2 being for some hope for the future, and 1 and 3 being so I actually want to watch the games this year (last year being the first time ever that I chose not to watch any games when I had the chance to). Those I'd say are in priority order.

So I guess my biggest concern from the list would be about young players not doing well, though Ace'd be the only one I'd really worry about. Really want to see Hendricks have a good recovery from the injury and Clayton do well, would love to see Key and Williams make big improvements, but my hopes aren't hanging on them. Frankly I don't really know that I expect anyone outside of Ace to still be on the team when we are good again.

Really I think my biggest concern is about Lauri. If he doesn't return to form and his all star year was a fluke, we're stuck with an albatross contract for a very long time while we are trying to rebuild, which would be catastrophic. If he does, it will be very hard to do both 2 and 3. So the best outcome is maybe that he excels to start the year, rehabbing his trade value, and then we trade him, which kind of sucks to think about your team's best player. So I worry about that because I don't see any possibility around him that I would be happy with.