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What Would it Take to Make the Playoffs?

Saint Cy of JFC said:
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Ok, here is some buy low/opportunistic trades to make a playoff team.

Jazz would be:

Collier/Keyonte/Harkless
Holiday/Clarkson/Juzang
Johnson/Sensabaugh/Dadiet
Lauri/Filipowski
Towns/Yang

Then use the 5th pick to take Tre Johnson and use the 21st pick to take Yang. Sign a good vet to the MLE (maybe bring back NAW?)

I'm not sure what the exact temperature is on Towns. I think you would have to include a future pick, but nothing crazy high value.

Same with the Holiday deal. Maybe have to include a future pick, but nothing crazy.

I know most will hate this (rightfully so probably) but I would enjoy seeing this team. Having the two best shooting bigs next to Collier would be fun if Collier somehow manages to take a significant leap. Holiday gives us a defensive presence (would be a great mentor to Collier/Keyonte as well).

But more importantly, I dont think getting Towns/Holiday would actually cost all that much in terms of pick capital. Both NYC/Boston will want to save money and get younger, and both these deals do that for those teams.

Included Dadiet because I still love him and people need to be reminded of my most recent draft proclamation fail.
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I would very much enjoy watching that team, even if KAT would drive me nuts sometimes.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
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Ok, here is some buy low/opportunistic trades to make a playoff team.

Jazz would be:

Collier/Keyonte/Harkless
Holiday/Clarkson/Juzang
Johnson/Sensabaugh/Dadiet
Lauri/Filipowski
Towns/Yang

Then use the 5th pick to take Tre Johnson and use the 21st pick to take Yang. Sign a good vet to the MLE (maybe bring back NAW?)

I'm not sure what the exact temperature is on Towns. I think you would have to include a future pick, but nothing crazy high value.

Same with the Holiday deal. Maybe have to include a future pick, but nothing crazy.

I know most will hate this (rightfully so probably) but I would enjoy seeing this team. Having the two best shooting bigs next to Collier would be fun if Collier somehow manages to take a significant leap. Holiday gives us a defensive presence (would be a great mentor to Collier/Keyonte as well).

But more importantly, I dont think getting Towns/Holiday would actually cost all that much in terms of pick capital. Both NYC/Boston will want to save money and get younger, and both these deals do that for those teams.

Included Dadiet because I still love him and people need to be reminded of my most recent draft proclamation fail.
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Also, another idea for this would be to trade down from 5 for more picks to fill out the roster.

So maybe trade 5 for 8 and 19 from Brooklyn so they can take Fears. Then maybe you take someone like CMB/Essengue/Demin at 8 to add some size/defensive presence to your roster over the scoring of a guy like Tre Johnson. Then you can use 19 and 21 to move up, or you can use 19 and/or 21 to grab another rotation player for your roster.
 
tksavis said:
I would very much enjoy watching that team, even if KAT would drive me nuts sometimes.
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If I was ever a GM it would be really tough for me to avoid just building the dumbest teams possible based off "What if we do something that has never been done", something like putting the two best shooting 7'ers on one team.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
If I was ever a GM it would be really tough for me to avoid just building the dumbest teams possible based off "What if we do something that has never been done", something like putting the two best shooting 7'ers on one team.
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I wonder if players would get into it too -- like "Yo, this is pretty messed up but we're gonna have fun and just see what we can do".
 
Not that much, actually. The frontcourt (Kessler, Collins, Lauri, Hendricks, Flip) is pretty solid. What we need is to add two competent guards who can play defense and pass. And one of them can be even homegrown if Collier develops a better jump shot over the summer. Or if, say the Jazz draft Edgecombe and he proves to be a fast learner. The Jazz have enough future picks to bring in two quality guards if they want to go that road.

In general, building a fringe playoff team is not that difficult.
 
jazznik said:
Not that much, actually. The frontcourt (Kessler, Collins, Lauri, Hendricks, Flip) is pretty solid. What we need is to add two competent guards who can play defense and pass. And one of them can be even homegrown if Collier develops a better jump shot over the summer. Or if, say the Jazz draft Edgecombe and he proves to be a fast learner. The Jazz have enough future picks to bring in two quality guards if they want to go that road.

In general, building a fringe playoff team is not that difficult.
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Perhaps just sign Chris Paul to shore up the backcourt and we wouldn't be too far off the play-ins.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
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Ok, here is some buy low/opportunistic trades to make a playoff team.

Jazz would be:

Collier/Keyonte/Harkless
Holiday/Clarkson/Juzang
Johnson/Sensabaugh/Dadiet
Lauri/Filipowski
Towns/Yang

Then use the 5th pick to take Tre Johnson and use the 21st pick to take Yang. Sign a good vet to the MLE (maybe bring back NAW?)

I'm not sure what the exact temperature is on Towns. I think you would have to include a future pick, but nothing crazy high value.

Same with the Holiday deal. Maybe have to include a future pick, but nothing crazy.

I know most will hate this (rightfully so probably) but I would enjoy seeing this team. Having the two best shooting bigs next to Collier would be fun if Collier somehow manages to take a significant leap. Holiday gives us a defensive presence (would be a great mentor to Collier/Keyonte as well).

But more importantly, I dont think getting Towns/Holiday would actually cost all that much in terms of pick capital. Both NYC/Boston will want to save money and get younger, and both these deals do that for those teams.

Included Dadiet because I still love him and people need to be reminded of my most recent draft proclamation fail.
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Towns couldn't get to the Finals in the EAST… lol..
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Since it's something we are all discussing with the direction of AA, what would it actually take (both internally and externally) for the Jazz to make the playoffs next season?
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A decision by the FO that it doesn't care about keeping its first round draft pick. I've a hard time imagining the FO is willing to risk that.
 
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