Which Will Be Easier: Competing for a Title

[fishonjazz]

Then you have to trade Sexton?

You do whatever we did last season when we went 5-29 but do that for the whole year.
This roster is basically that roster but with no tht and no Dunn and add the rookies.

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[Saint Cy of JFC]

Ummm no.

So Ingram is mediocre and makes you the Kings but Sexton is great but will also let you tank?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

You do whatever we did last season when we went 5-29 but do that for the whole year.
This roster is basically that roster but with no tht and no Dunn and add the rookies.

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Except it doesn't work that way. The team gave up. The team isn't going to start the season giving up

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

So Ingram is mediocre and makes you the Kings but Sexton is great but will also let you tank?

No but don't go out of your way to acquire more guys of that ilk right now until you get the blue chip prospect. Then go get those guys. Trying to short cut the process at this point has an upside of the Kings imo. Lauri + Blue Chip Prospect + Developing Rookies + BI/Sexton level guys that you can acquire - thats the formula I'd be working on. The order is important though.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Like right now the projected starting lineup, if we are to believe Tony Jones, is going to be

Sexton
Keyonte
Williams or Hendricks
Lauri
Kessler

That starting 5 is going to win a decent amount of games and believe in each other.

In the past the Jazz were able to trade a starter to demoralize the team. They can't do that with that team (unless they trade Sexton).

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

No but don't go out of your way to acquire more guys of that ilk right now until you get the blue chip prospect. Then go get those guys. Trying to short cut the process at this point has an upside of the Kings imo. Lauri + Blue Chip Prospect + Developing Rookies + BI/Sexton level guys that you can acquire - thats the formula I'd be working on. The order is important though.

I get what you're saying, but you're also wrong and being dramatic. The amount of assets the Jazz have its impossible to just be another team. Especially since there hasn't been a call to spend a great deal of assets to make these trades.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I'm fine taking a tank forward approach, I just don't think it can be done with Sexton on the team if you are keeping Lauri

 

[SoberasHotRod]

You do whatever we did last season when we went 5-29 but do that for the whole year.
This roster is basically that roster but with no tht and no Dunn and add the rookies.

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Lauri only played 5 games in March and April. I think you have to play him at least 65 to be eligible for awards.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I get what you're saying, but you're also wrong and being dramatic. The amount of assets the Jazz have its impossible to just be another team. Especially since there hasn't been a call to spend a great deal of assets to make these trades.

lol me over here with my slow, measured build is the one being dramatic… not the guy wanting to yolo our picks now to try and compete for a title cuz the bogeyman is coming to win 10 straight titles.

 

[KqWIN]

I think now is a pretty good time to compete for a championship. If you had two star players in your prime locked under contract, what a time to compete. But the reality is that we are far from that. It doesn't really matter what's going on with Wemby, the Jazz are not positioned to win in the next three years, so the question is irrelevant unless we're trying to dig up a "should we have traded Rudy/Don" type of conversation.

Even without considering our current team, you can't really time these things and you don't judge the best time to win based on another player. LeBron is the greatest of all time and won the East year after year. It was still favorable to be in the East than the stacked West. All you can really do is build a team that his good and is good for a long time. That gives you a chance to get lucky.

 

[The Midnight]

Like right now the projected starting lineup, if we are to believe Tony Jones, is going to be

Sexton
Keyonte
Williams or Hendricks
Lauri
Kessler

That starting 5 is going to win a decent amount of games and believe in each other.

In the past the Jazz were able to trade a starter to demoralize the team. They can't do that with that team (unless they trade Sexton).

That team isn’t gonna win more than 35 games.

Sit Lauri the final 30 games and win total goes down to 22.

 

[HermanG]

I think the vote is skewed towards the latter stretch because people interpret the question as "When should the Jazz aim to compete?".

However that wasnt the question.