2019 off-season- Bring back the same group for more of the same?

Here we go. Sounds like Favors will be back and possibly Rubio as well and Exum obviously isn't going anywhere anytime soon

Tobias Harris, meanwhile, is a native of New York and was intrigued by Philadelphia over the course of this season, dating back to his time with the Clippers. Around the league, executives believe several other teams, such as Memphis, Utah, Dallas and Brooklyn, will also provide competition for Harris.

Front office executives I

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[QUOTE]The Utah front office believes the team is close to being a championship contender. If the Jazz can attract a top tier free agent, that might just be enough to get them there.
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They had their guys and it would have cost them Exum. You think SA would have held on to Exum this long? They know when to cut their losses

[QUOTE]Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey had some good reasons to not make too many changes coming to the 2018-19 season: The Jazz were a young-and-upcoming team, they didn

[QUOTE]Mitchell can ball-handle and get his own shot, but almost never gets other guys shots.
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put guys around him that can shoot and he will

[QUOTE]Rubio can ball-handle and setup others shot, but isn

[QUOTE]I

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[QUOTE]Lindsey will be forced to make several spot-on choices in a sea of incorrect options
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Get the best guys you can that fit. Ricky never fit. Favors hasn't fit since Rudy emerged. Exum sucks. It's not that difficult. Make a list of the guys that make sense around Rudy and Mitchell and go after them.


[QUOTE]Like any GM in the NBA (or in any league for that matter), Dennis Lindsey will be tasked with making a long list of some of the most terrible yet all-too-important decisions that will shape the next five-plus years of Utah Jazz basketball.
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5 years? 2 at the most. Probably just next year. Will be another year before they get serious about keeping Rudy in town

[QUOTE]His first official item of business will come on June 20, the day of the NBA draft where the Jazz will have the 23rd and 53rd overall picks. This will be a walk in the park relative to what comes later in the summer. Sure, there will be some pressure to not draft a non-factor rookie like Grayson Allen tended to be this year outside of a couple of late scoring outbursts. But again, there are worse challenges that await.
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Unless they get extremely lucky whoever they draft should have no impact next year on a 50 win team. Should be considered a Star until he proves otherwise

[QUOTE]Cut ties with fan favorites in pursuit of title contention or keep the most lovable Jazz team in years intact and embrace playoff mediocrity?
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What is lovable about them? Not a whole lot more lovable than the darkest period of Al ball

[QUOTE]There

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[QUOTE]Dwight Howard did it twice. Rudy Gobert has done it three times. DeAndre Jordan did it three times, too. Hassan Whiteside did it once when he was making All-Star pushes. Now, Favors has joined the club as well.
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which just tells us Favors has to go. He is Rudy's back up

[QUOTE]With those three players on the floor together this past season, the Jazz boasted a sweet D-rating of 99.3. Unfortunately, they also scored just 103.7 points per 100 possessions. If that was Utah

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[QUOTE]#8 Didn

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:roll:

They've got their new version in Allen anyway! :cry:

[QUOTE]Well, I

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[QUOTE]With that, Utah has officially entered a phase of team building that Jae Crowder acknowledged later in the day is incredibly difficult: Going from good to great, a task he said is much harder than going from bad to good.
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It's really hard if you don't even try :rant

[QUOTE]Offensively, the Jazz finished the regular season 14th in offensive rating (110.2) and 17th in points per game at 111.7. These mediocre numbers came despite the fact that, according to the subscription-based website Cleaning The Glass, Utah finished fourth in the league in percentage of their shots attempted at the rim and eighth in percentage of their shots as 3-pointers, which are the two most desirable shots.
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Other teams will let Ricky, Favors and Exum have those shots all night long. That's over 40 million in those so called desired shots. That is the heart of the problem right there

[QUOTE]What does this mean? One conclusion that can be drawn

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[QUOTE]They

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[QUOTE]Conely might be somewhat of an afterthought for most teams, but he

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[QUOTE]Donovan Mitchell also saw a 3.3 point per game improvement year over year. The hard part is Donovan Mitchell saw a big increase in shot attempts at the rim and his efficiency from this rookie year didn

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[QUOTE]That uptick in play down the season

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[QUOTE]With such being the case, there are a number of free agent names that have been thrown around by Jazz fans and knowledgeable media members alike that would be desirable for Utah to add. You

[QUOTE]Free agency begins July 1 and there is already one player interested in joining the Celtics. Former Boston College swingman Jared Dudley, who enjoyed a solid bounce-back year for the Brooklyn Nets as a team leader, agitator, and 3-pointer shooter, is interested in returning to his college city to play for the Celtics, according to a league source. Dudley turns 34 in July and played in 59 games for the Nets, starting 25. He shot 35.1 percent from the 3-point line, his worst clip since his rookie season but still respectable.

Rudy Gobert: My guys were not allowed to contest shots like that last week

[QUOTE]Jared Dudley: This article is pretty accurate. Suns messed up giving the keys to young players without them earning it. The whole structure was messed up. Front office controlling playing time, no player development , coaching change and accountability. Hope they get Monty he would be perfect[/QUOTE]

agreed. Jazz have done the same thing. Didn't help Hood, Exum, Lyles etc. Mitchell is the only one that shouldn't have been in the Gleague to start his career

Bryan Kalbrisky: BYU

[QUOTE]Tony Jones: Portland Trail Blazers guard Rodney Hood has signed with and will be represented by CAA Sports, league sources tell The Athletic.

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[QUOTE]The Jazz have a team option on Georges Niang, but general manager Dennis Lindsey has already made it clear that the organization will likely chase a strong wing or point guard option despite reaching the playoffs for the third straight season with a 50-32 record.
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Niang is a forward? They need a modern starting 4 more than anything. Niang and Thabo I could actually see there. Jae needs to come off the bench still. Favors needs to go. After that they need talent that fits around Rudy and Mitchell everywhere. Exum and Ricky don't

[QUOTE]Kyrie Irving, Kemba Walker, D

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[QUOTE]For the Jazz, free agency is expected to be a much busier time this year than it was in 2018 when Lindsey brought the whole team back from the 2017-2018 campaign save backup Jonas Jerebko. Lindsey knows the team needs to get better. Utah has momentum in trying to attract a top-tier player and a number of the players currently on the roster will be free agents, which should make for an interesting first few days of July regardless of what ends up happening.
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He should have known last year. What makes this year so much different? He pretty much already said Favors will be back. They can't do much if he's back

[QUOTE]Rosters will be announced sometime after the draft, but any Jazz draftees and young players such as Grayson Allen and Tony Bradley are likely bets to be on Utah

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[QUOTE]Gobert will be a free agent in 2021. That is not that far off. When he speaks up about his expectations for this Jazz team, Utah

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[QUOTE]It is difficult to write anything on Ricky Rubio without acknowledging that he

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just more excuses. Fix the roster and you won't need them

Tony Jones: Utah Jazz assistant Alex Jensen interviewed today in Memphis for the vacant Grizzlies head coaching job, league sources tell @Omari Sanfoka II and myself. Jensen is also expected to interview in Cleveland this week, league sources say

There

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[QUOTE]While Rubio wasn

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[QUOTE]You can tinker with the cap tool, but the quick answer (assuming they keep everybody not mentioned above) is that they

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[QUOTE]The league and players did agree to create a new exception called the

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Max seems like a lot for Tobias but he certainly makes more sense than Kemba. Conley made the most sense though :rant

[QUOTE]But Tobias brings a ton to the table as well. It

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[QUOTE]Utah Jazz: Poor first-round draw spoiled what could have been fun postseason
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poor decisions by the front office and coach spoiled what could have been a great run by Rudy the past 4 plus years.

[QUOTE]Now the Jazz are forced to look towards the offseason where it

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[QUOTE]One thing that was a concern when it comes to Conley, other than the fact that he appears to be in somewhat of a declining trajectory at this point in his career, is that his contract is tough to add and could make things difficult for the Jazz moving forward.
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Was actually perfect. Expires the same time as Rudy's and same time as Mitchell's rookie deal. Would have had to fill the 4 position with Thabo, Jae and Niang. Might have gotten a higher seed and still playing now. Certainly be looking a lot better going into next year

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[QUOTE]Utah lost a game (3) in which James Harden shot 3-20. That

[QUOTE]Eric Woodyard: Ricky Rubio isn

Nearly three weeks after dismissing head coach J.B. Bickerstaff, the Grizzlies have officially begun the process of finding his replacement. And the first candidate known the Grizzlies have brought in could provide a clue as to what the team is looking for in its next head coach. Jazz assistant coach Alex Jensen interviewed for the Memphis Grizzlies job on Tuesday, according to league sources and The Athletic

Wednesday was his sixth NBA workout, his third this spring (he previously auditioned for the Houston Rockets and Boston Celtics). Chris Clemons has workouts scheduled with the Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves as he awaits whether that combine invitation will come.

[QUOTE]Agent Zero: There