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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
Handlogten's Heros said:
No but he's a team employee that wants to make sure the team looks good/intelligent or that he paints them in the best light. I don't know what they do or don't say but Locke has the ability to fire up or cool off the fanbase. People pay attention to what he says.

It may turn more of a focus on turning to development and picks are like 3rd or 4th on the list of things to worry about type of thing.

Do you think he is completely unbiased?
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No, of course I don't think he is unbiased, but his podcast amounted to "if we don't keep the pick and hit on it we are ****ed" and I don't think it would have worded his opinions on the matter as strongly as he did if he was planning to pivot to "it's fine if we lose the pick".
 
Losing Interest said:
No, that is not what I mean. He is walking a fine line and can't criticize or question his employer to the public.
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He's always going to soften criticism and exaggerate praise at least a little. He's not some puppet for the org. The org absolutely wants certain messages out there though and personnel will ask media to make sure certain things are mentioned etc.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
No, of course I don't think he is unbiased, but his podcast amounted to "if we don't keep the pick and hit on it we are ****ed" and I don't think it would have worded his opinions on the matter as strongly as he did if he was planning to pivot to "it's fine if we lose the pick".
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I think thats the plan. If they don't cut deep enough I can see a pivot of the narrative. I think we can see the other night that they are starting to tip their hand outwardly.

Its just somewhat out of the org's control if they have lines they won't cross. So if it keeps trending the wrong way I can see a "this was always the plan" type of narrative.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I think thats the plan. If they don't cut deep enough I can see a pivot of the narrative. I think we can see the other night that they are starting to tip their hand outwardly.

Its just somewhat out of the org's control if they have lines they won't cross. So if it keeps trending the wrong way I can see a "this was always the plan" type of narrative.
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The other night when they sat vets and played even more rookie contract players?

Im fairly certain after Lauri does or does not receive his ASG nomination, he will be sitting a lot more games.
 
I'll give it a listen... but if he believes that the FO believe we need to hit on this pick or we effed then my concerns with the FO grow stronger.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
The other night when they sat vets and played even more rookie contract players?

Im fairly certain after Lauri does or does not receive his ASG nomination, he will be sitting a lot more games.
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Yes... no Love/Svi/Nurk and lots of Cody/Taylor. I just don't know if that is the new MO (Nurk likely comes back for sure) or if it was a one night special.

ASG is such a dumbass sidequest for the org.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I mean it matters to the players and you have to appease players to some extent
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To some extent? Yeah, you could say that. Lauri is a top 20 max contract player in his prime. A well behaved, quiet max contract player, but still. Yanking these guys around for some tank half measures isn't great for the optics.

It's absurd enough that we're trying to tank with a guy like Markkanen on the roster.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I mean it matters to the players and you have to appease players to some extent
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Dude could make the AS game and miss a couple pre-voting. Don't have to grind the guy with lots of minutes in an effort to get an individual award. We can give him a decent shot at it without pushing the gas and impacting more important things.

He's also likely only making it as an injury replacement.
 
I listened to Locke. He seems confident we can "fix" the fact we don't have a pick but was mostly going on about how hard it will be to beat SA and OKC in the future.
 
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