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What should the FO do if we are 0.500 by January?

If you were put in charge of the FO, what would you do if the Jazz were 0.500 on January 1st

  • Go For It: Use assets to add to the team and go for the playoff push

    Votes: 11 17.7%

  • Ethical Tank: Trade Kessler and Lauri for whatever we can get

    Votes: 8 12.9%

  • Stand Pat: Let it ride, see how it goes

    Votes: 12 19.4%

  • Unethical Tank: sit Lauri and Kessler for however long the league will allow

    Votes: 31 50.0%
  • Total voters
    62
HermanG said:
I dont hate this idea. Black can also exploit the gravity provided by Lauri because he is a good enough passer to find Lauri (or Key) if the defence cheats off him. He can also defend the point pretty well.

I think those 3 paired with a competent center (doesnt even have to be a spacer, so Kessler could work) and a solid wing defender and you got a starting lineup that can win their minutes against anyone. Then if Ace pops and reaches his theoretical ceiling, you got a monster team.
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To me it's either Suggs or Black for them. Depends entirely on whether Magic wanna do a small retool or a full teardown. What they could get Suggs in return is not gonna be ideal considering his contract and injury history. Definitely not enough to move the needle for them unless they package him with other assets for folks like AD/Giannis/etc but I highly doubt it. Black and Franz are the only ones who could net them significant assets needed to build for the future. But if they are trading Franz, they might as well just trade everyone.
 
Watching a player level up like Keyonte has this year is one of the most gratifying parts of being a fan of a team. It was similar with Lauri 3 years ago, but this is even more fun since we've seen Keyonte's whole career.

I do definitely understand the tanxiety and not wanting to lose our pick. I get all of that, but especially since we don't have any control over this, I think you just have to enjoy the moment. What we are witnessing is fun and special. I would personally hate for my personal tanxiety to ruin this season, so I need to keep reminding myself to chill out.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Watching a player level up like Keyonte has this year is one of the most gratifying parts of being a fan of a team. It was similar with Lauri 3 years ago, but this is even more fun since we've seen Keyonte's whole career.

I do definitely understand the tanxiety and not wanting to lose our pick. I get all of that, but especially since we don't have any control over this, I think you just have to enjoy the moment. What we are witnessing is fun and special. I would personally hate for my personal tanxiety to ruin this season, so I need to keep reminding myself to chill out.
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as always a great take from you dude
 
Tremendous Upside said:
People always roll out SGA/OKC as an example of "tanking with a star".

I've said it before and I'll say it again: SGA was really young when that happened. OKC were in no rush with him, they knew he wasn't even in his prime yet.

With Lauri, it's totally different. He's smack in the middle of his prime, has a max deal, is approaching 30 and the Jazz are wasting a massive asset.

Makes no sense.
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People always nitpick on basically perfect examples, or as perfect as you’ll get, because of XYZ which are arbitrarily determined by said nitpicker. We can and will tank with Lauri. We have done it. Will do it again. For where we are and where he is it is the right call. If Ainges have a Time Machine maybe they’d go back and trade him a few years ago. Where we are now… this is the way.
 
If benching SGA is honorable, just bench Key /s.

This whole thing is stupid. There is no honor in the NBA. The best teams tank their *** off and it’s forgiven because it happened to work for them. The only thing the Jazz need to worry about league wise is not messing up those juicy DraftKings bets. The idea that the league is focused on forcing the Jazz to win as much as possible is ridiculous.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Watching a player level up like Keyonte has this year is one of the most gratifying parts of being a fan of a team. It was similar with Lauri 3 years ago, but this is even more fun since we've seen Keyonte's whole career.

I do definitely understand the tanxiety and not wanting to lose our pick. I get all of that, but especially since we don't have any control over this, I think you just have to enjoy the moment. What we are witnessing is fun and special. I would personally hate for my personal tanxiety to ruin this season, so I need to keep reminding myself to chill out.
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Great post
 
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