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Who have you been most wrong about?

HermanG said:
For me its KO as well. That Bojan trade was the "conclusive evidence" to me that this team is tanking. I was thinking no way that makes any other sense than removing a good scorer to decrease plausible wins.
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Really hard to say what the primary motive was behind the KK trade. Obviously it saves Smith money, it gave the Jazz more roster flexibility with KOs partial team option next year, Danny Ainge liked him, it freed up minutes for KO, it shored up a positional weakness, it shored up (what I thought at the time) was a team weakness (passing).

I think I also pondered of it would ultimately make the Jazz better, but I thought I was drinking koolaid so I went with the more pessimistic view of tanking
 
SteakNEggs said:
I keep expecting this team to come back down to earth but they just haven't.
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Well there is likely a crash coming at some point. Literally no one knew what to expect from this team, but as we play, other team's scouting gets better, and they can better prepare for what we are doing, and we will see the effects in more losses. But damn if it isn't the most fun I have had in watching the Jazz in decades. As long as they keep their attitude and keep playing their unselfish ball they will still win a lot of games this year. My bet at this rate is we end up somewhere between 4th and 8th in the West. Maybe a play-in team, but I think we get more in the 4-6 range, once all is said and done.

Then again, since we really don't know what this team can do, there is the chance they figure out how to adapt when other teams know more to game-plan against them, and they win even more than expected. At this point, finishing anywhere from 2-12 would not surprise me. Crazy season for sure.

Right now their biggest strength is that you cannot just stop any one guy. If you key in on Clarkson, then you give Markkanen an opening and that is bad. Or if you key in on Lauri, the guard core goes nuts. Or key in on stopping Sexton/Conley/Clarkson and we bring in bigger guys like THT and even Gay to shore up the offense and provide a defensive spark, and don't forget sleepers like Beasley and Vando, who could both go off if given the opening. So many weapons, and so many decent to great playmakers, and no egos. No one cares who the hero is, they just want to win. Tough to stop this team without a strong concerted very high-level team defense. Like Milwaukee right now. But there are maybe 3-4 teams in the league with an overall defense that strong. And even then we will have bursts that could bury them. Will be really interesting to see us going up against a few of the real power-houses of the league, like the suns and bucks. Then we will see what this team is made of.
 
hgb said:
I also thought the trade was puzzling, but to me it kinda signaled that we _weren't_ tanking, since we got a solid player back instead of a pick from someone.

In any case, JC has definitely been the player who's exceeded my expectations the most. And Lauri, in particular as a defender.
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I wonder if they would have offered a first and removed KO from the deal if we still would have done that trade. I bet we would have


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fishonjazz said:
I wonder if they would have offered a first and removed KO from the deal if we still would have done that trade. I bet we would have
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Yeah, I think we would. Would save even more money, and we had a logjam of players under contract. But now I'm super happy we did what we did.
 
I was wrong about the balance. I figured once Lauri went out we'd be dead in the water on offense. We have a plethora of other weapons and a coach who knows how to incorporate them.
Also, I thought Quin would be able to get us closer to the promised land. I'm so, so glad he bowed out, whether by choice or with Ainge's prodding. He was just too damn rigid. I don't think this team would enjoy having him at the helm.
 
I thought:

• Mike Conley was cooked and wouldn't be very impactful.
• Lauri Markkanen was a soft shooter and basically a 7 foot two guard
• Kessler would struggle early on
• Agbaji and Simone would be rotational guys early on
• Didn't think KO would be a factor for us
 
YoungJefe said:
I thought:

• Mike Conley was cooked and wouldn't be very impactful.
• Lauri Markkanen was a soft shooter and basically a 7 foot two guard
• Kessler would struggle early on
• Agbaji and Simone would be rotational guys early on
• Didn't think KO would be a factor for us
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I felt exactly the same way as you on all those guys.

I think the players i was most correct about are sexton, vando, gay, and to a lesser extent clarkson.


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I don't know that I was wrong about Kessler, because until the Jazz traded for him, I didn't even know who he was, but he is pretty dang good; especially for a rookie. The whole Jazz team is about hustling, but when he is put in, I just feel like he's going to get a block. He plays hard and is a game changer.
 
YoungJefe said:
I thought:

• Mike Conley was cooked and wouldn't be very impactful.
• Lauri Markkanen was a soft shooter and basically a 7 foot two guard
• Kessler would struggle early on
• Agbaji and Simone would be rotational guys early on
• Didn't think KO would be a factor for us
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Same way for me. And i would have bet a huge amount of money that KO trade for Bodga was ( apart of the money saving part) the best tanking trade we ever made.......
 
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