I love how you went out of your way to track down all those posts but not a single one mentions selling the farm and going for an all in tear it down tank. Anyone with a brain knows that it is better for us to get a better draft pick this year and every game that a team around us in the standings wins and we lose is in the best interest of this team. Some people are blind though and love being prisoner of the moment which you seem to be really good at. The only place that leads to is mediocrity.
Well, searching for tank* by sip took all of about three seconds. All of them call for losing as much as possible; even wishing for injuries. Which you said you've never said. You're calling for it
right now in your message. So, which is it?
You can want the team to tank, to get good rookies and develop them - and then be contending in 5 years. Or you can want the team to be winning in three years with Markkanen. But you can't have both. Unless you pick young LeBron with whatever pick you have.
I haven't seen much discussion on tanking NEXT season. Next season ochai might barely play. I have no idea what free agents we will acquire or what trades will be made. I literally have no idea what next seasons roster will look like. Playing vets isnt a problem for the tankers. Tankers are fine with vets like sexton, beasley, vando, and lauri playing. its the old dudes who wont contribute in few years playing big minutes that get the most complaints.
Im hoping to comfortably make the playoffs next season off the backs of youngish players and do some damage. Then win a title in 3 - 5 years in Lauris prime while he is under a max contract with the jazz. Thats my gameplan.
Tanking this season and getting a bunch of young players might not mean quite tanking next season, but it definitely means a losing season and no playoffs. And yes, we don't know who's on the roster next year. But if it's not the all the young guys playing meaningful minutes, what on earth was the point of getting them? Why?
This year's team isn't going anywhere. Conley, KO etc. have given the young guys what they have to give. If there's value available, of course trade them. But again, that's not what we're talking about. It's people like sip wanting to lose as much as possible. That means getting losing players on the court, "load managing" Lauri or hoping he has a minor injury that keeps him out for a month. THAT recipe doesn't get you "comfortably in the playoffs" next season; it guarantees not making it.
And guess what, if a year from now the Jazz youth are 22-28 in January, all the same people will be calling for the team to tank in order to get to the lottery to keep the 1st pick.
Good lord you are so dramatic. We have already seen that a bunch of our young guys are very capable of providing solid minutes for us.
Yes, exactly. And a losing season already, even with massive, better-than-expected jumps from several guys. Hopefully the incoming rookie class can do the same and provide those solid minutes. Solid minutes from rookies all around doesn't get you in the playoffs.
