The 2017 off-season...Hayward, Hill, Ingles...?

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[QUOTE]The Jazz have terrific depth and will surely have a top-three defense again. [/QUOTE]

don't count on it. The offense will make it much tougher for the D

[QUOTE]But they may never score 100 points this season, because they play slow and seemingly have no go-to guy beyond Joe Johnson for a few minutes a night. [/QUOTE]

Is Joe playing the 3 or 4? He's not a go to guy. Hood and Burks are more likely at times anyway

[QUOTE]Dante Exum (now two years past his torn ACL) just needs to give them something offensively.[/QUOTE]

and defensively

[QUOTE]Can

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[QUOTE]Entering the 2016-2017 season, there was a thought around the league that Derrick Favors was the best player amongst the trio of Rudy Gobert, Gordon Hayward, and himself. There was a case to be made that Derrick Favors would be the key to Utah making the playoffs last year.[/QUOTE]

are you serious? :wtf:

[QUOTE] Derrick

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[QUOTE]The Utah Jazz made somewhat of a surprising move on draft night when they traded their 30th and 42nd picks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for the 28th overall pick which they utilized to select UNC product Tony Bradley.[/QUOTE]

Not really surprising. A young center was obviously their biggest need and they got the one they wanted apparently

[QUOTE]Bradley doesn

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[QUOTE]Given that Gobert has largely already established himself as a top-tier player and has set an expectation for himself, there’s not necessarily as much intrigue about how Gobert will fare next season.[/QUOTE]

sure there is because he won't have 4 shooters around him now!

[QUOTE]the Jazz gambled on him rather than going the conventional route was certainly a pleasant surprise[/QUOTE]

He dropped. How did they gamble by taking supposedly the best player on the board?

[QUOTE]it didn’t take long for him to establish himself as the starter albeit on a team with a point guard corp that was shaky at best[/QUOTE]

you mean on a team trying to lose games

[QUOTE]According to Dennis Lindsey, Dante Exum looks ready to roll. pic.twitter.com/xtgGFbphE1[/QUOTE]

we'll see

[QUOTE]he proved that his quick first step could help him get to the rim with surprising ease when he looked to be aggressive and attack.[/QUOTE]

but couldn't finish so who cares

[QUOTE]That’s the kind of offense the Jazz are going to need from Exum this season and beyond, not just so that he can be a valuable bench player, but so that he can eventually fill his potential as a star in this league and develop into the caliber of player that the Jazz expect of him.[/QUOTE]

Hopefully he can hit open shots and defend. All-star? :facepalm

[QUOTE]Exum still likely has one of the highest upsides of any player on the team and if he can begin to break into that this season, it will be an incredible sight for the Jazz.[/QUOTE]

and if he doesn't Kabong will be watching him down under next year

[QUOTE]And given that Exum still has so much room for growth, his ability to tap into that potential could very well help the Jazz have a more successful season than many are expecting. [/QUOTE]

by many you mean the non homers right? The homers think the Jazz are better than last year!

[QUOTE] If he can even get back to his former self from the 2015-16 campaign and stay healthy, he could very well regain his spot as one of Utah’s top players.[/QUOTE]

and they can get a big haul for him!

[QUOTE]Rodney Hood is indeed the one who’s most important to the Jazz’s success[/QUOTE]

They're in big trouble. Expecting way too much out of a 6th man

[QUOTE]A recent FanRag Sports piece highlighted Rodney Hood as one of the NBA’s top most improved player candidates for 2017-18 and that’s exactly what he’ll have to be for the Jazz to be able to bounce back next season. [/QUOTE]

Exum is the guy they need for that award

[QUOTE]The Jazz’s success depends largely on whether Hood can make the leap from a 12 to 14 points per game guy to a 18 to 19 points per game kind of guy while maintaining some semblance of efficiency.[/QUOTE]

He can but it should be off the bench and they will still suck!

[QUOTE]TJ McBride: Darrell Arthur said that Paul Millsap makes the Denver Nuggets a contender.

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[QUOTE]New Jazzman Ekpe Udoh is replacing Joel Bolomboy on Week 3 of this tour, which starts tomorrow. [url]https://t.co/wkfG3v4bL5[/url]

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We still don't know what's happening with him but he's either going to be a two way player or stashed it would appear. Hopefully stashed with the Stars like Wallace last year

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White looks good anyway. The worst might be ahead still! :lol

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[QUOTE]Brave Sir Robin-San Diego, CA
Here's what's different about the Utah Jazz uniforms this year: There won't be any decent players wearing them.[/QUOTE]

Most of the players are decent. Don't have a whole lot more than that is the problem

[QUOTE]The 76ers will play the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Christmas Day, a source with knowledge of the NBA schedule confirmed Wednesday night. WIP-FM (94.1) was the first to report the news. The league is expected to announce the matchups for its annual Christmas showcase in the coming days.

Rudy Gobert: People care more about attention than about winning nowadays...

Last week, Utah Jazz wing Thabo Sefolosha went to South Africa to participate in a Basketball Without Borders camp there. Next week, Jazz assistant coach and former University of Utah guard Johnnie Bryant will do the same in Israel.

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Hood and Burks are the two I'd be looking to to score. Be tough for Gobert and Favors without shooters

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no thanks

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got to be a good thing