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

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[QUOTE]The season was a surprise, considering Ingles was told he

Jack Stockton, the former owner of Jack and Dan

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[QUOTE]There are a lot of good things going on in Jazz land, including an incredible rim protector in Rudy Gobert, a great young core, a rising coach in Quin Snyder and excellent management.[/QUOTE]

Could we start pushing the great young core? It was Gobert and Hayward vs the Warriors from what I saw. he Celtics certainly have better young players and Ainge is proven unlike the hyped Lindsey. Snyder is better than Rivers but who isn't?

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[QUOTE]George Hill has hit several clutch shots in his career, and you can find a few of them here, here and here, but he has never been considered a

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[QUOTE]The one scenario where Prather can see Favors staying in Salt Lake City is if the team misses out on retaining Hayward. His belief is that Hayward

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[QUOTE]Dante Exum the key to Utah Jazz

[QUOTE]Marc Stein: NBA Draft scuttle: Hearing Detroit is open to discussing trades for its No. 12 overall pick in hopes of acquiring more of a win-now veteran.

or Diaw?

Indiana Pacers swingman C.J. Miles will decline his player option for the 2017-18 season and become an unrestricted free agent on July 1, league sources tell ESPN. Miles, 30, is forgoing a salary of approximately $4.8 million in hopes of securing an extended, lucrative deal this offseason.

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[QUOTE]Theoretically, the Jazz could make all four picks with an eye on keeping Hayward in Utah. The team could select more NBA ready players in the form of college upperclassmen, and hope one of them steps in as an immediate contributor.[/QUOTE]

Need to quit expecting draft picks to come in and play for anyone other than the Stars especially immediately. Ideally later on in the year maybe.

[QUOTE] the Jazz could be left with good, not great, players with low upside on a rebuilding roster.[/QUOTE]

No excuse for rebuilding when you have Gobert

[QUOTE]The Jazz's general manager Dennis Lindsey showed last summer he has a knack for adding veteran pieces to his core who can step in and provide immediate help, needing very little time to gel. In addition to Hill, Joe Johnson and Boris Diaw carved out valuable roles in their first seasons with the Jazz.[/QUOTE]

Johnson didn't gel until later in the year when he was moved to the 4 . Diaw was up and down all year.

[QUOTE]trading for non-star-level veterans could complicate the development of Dante Exum and Trey Lyles, should Hayward leave, placing the Jazz in no-man's land, somewhere between a true rebuild and a roster competing for something meaningful.[/QUOTE]

Exum is in the last year of his contract! They will play if they deserve to play regardless

[QUOTE] if the Jazz were willing to move Hood, they likely wouldn

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[QUOTE]Hill isn't signing on for $15 million per year. (Even then, the Jazz would be hard-pressed to evade the tax.) Goran Dragic, Lowry and Paul are the only players who clear 17 points per game while rivaling his assist (23.2) and three-point (41.2) percentages.

While he isn't a prototypical superstar, Hill's next deal, whoever it's from, is going to pay him like one.

Outside Team to Watch: Denver Nuggets[/QUOTE]

I don't see him going to the Nets for more money. He will take less money to be on one of the top teams. The Nuggets could make some sense. They are close to where the Jazz were a year ago


[QUOTE]As the Jazz spend elsewhere, presumably on Hayward and Hill, don't be surprised if Ingles' offer sheets creep into mid-eight figures per year.[/QUOTE]
See ya! Would suck to see him go the Rockets but if they want to spend 15 million a year on him go for it!

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[QUOTE]Lydon does not seem like a

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[QUOTE]He

Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari intends to pass on the $16.1 million player option on his 2017-18 contract and become an unrestricted free agent this summer, league sources told The Vertical.

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[QUOTE]Here are the Top 3 small forwards (as I see it) that will be available and the good, the bad and the ugly that each option brings to the table.[/QUOTE]

Probably better to try to replace him with multiple players than just one. Despite the hype the Jazz were not deep which we saw against GS especially. Put a better overall team around Rudy.

[QUOTE]Rudy Gay (Opt-out)[/QUOTE]

How does he fit other than as a possible bench piece?

[QUOTE]And while he was a legitimate threat from three-point range last season, his career number is 34.5 percent from that range. League average has hovered around 35 percent since the 1999-00 season, and there

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[QUOTE]With his rookie season now in the books, Utah Jazz forward Joel Bolomboy will have to earn his rotational minutes for next season.[/QUOTE]

Like Lyles and Exum did?

[QUOTE]Unless the team moves him by October 1, his deal will become fully-guaranteed for next season. The brunt of his salary (over $450k per *********) is already guaranteed, so he

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Harkless was one of the guys the Jazz wanted last summer I believe. Could be Hayward's replacement if he leaves or back him up if he stays.

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[QUOTE]the Jazz have to live with the reality of the situation: the difference in money probably won

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[QUOTE]Fortunately for us, Dennis Lindsay has a great track record when it comes to the draft. This started when he was with the Spurs and continues now.[/QUOTE]

Burke, Exum, Lyles...

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[QUOTE]He

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[QUOTE]I think Utah needs someone in that spot who is able to contribute immediately[/QUOTE]

dream on. Hood didn't start to come on until the end of his rookie year and he was old

[QUOTE] If he

[QUOTE]If you

[QUOTE]Jordan Schultz‏: Per a source, #Lakers are not just

[QUOTE]Adrian Wojnarowski: The Sacramento Kings have waived Anthony Tolliver, league sources tell @The Vertical.

Andy Larsen: Jazz will hold another draft workout Saturday, including Vanderbilt center Luke Kornet. I

[QUOTE]Nathan Sobey, who enjoyed a breakout 2016-17 NBL season with Adelaide, has received invitations from four separate NBA teams to participate in free agent mini-camps; the Brooklyn Nets, Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Clippers and a fourth team who has requested not to be named at this time.

[QUOTE]Johnson started 77 games for Boston, but was the starter in only nine of the team

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[QUOTE]You know as well as anybody, the biggest question facing the Jazz, other than the retention of Gordon Hayward, is this: Who's going to play point guard next season?

There are a lot of layers here, with your own status among them.[/QUOTE]

Better not be Dante is all I can say!

[QUOTE]Or do they let him go and sign some fancy-passing dude out of Serbia who can run the team but not play much defense? [/QUOTE]

He'll be a back-up if anything

[QUOTE]But you got to understand, the Jazz, especially if they keep Hayward, are far past the days of patience and tolerance and nannying young players. They need results, not any kind of Romper Room, particularly at such an important position.[/QUOTE]

It should have been that way all along. That's why you have guys like Hood and Exum that think they are a lot better than they really are. Make guys prove themselves and work for it like Bolomboy is

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[QUOTE] It would be unfair to Hayward, Derrick Favors and even coach Quin Snyder to say that Gobert has created a winning culture in Utah[/QUOTE]

not really. I can see them being Orlando right now if they hadn't gotten lucky with him
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If he joined San Antonio, he wouldn

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[QUOTE]a decent wingspan of 7

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[QUOTE] Jeff Van Gundy recently said that he sees nothing preventing the Warriors from making it to eight to ten straight NBA Finals and as preposterous as that might sound on the surface, if this roster is able to stay together without the financial screws falling off, it very well could be the case.[/QUOTE]

Be tough to do. regardless. What are the chances that they stay healthy? Durant got hurt this year. Don't get bored? Too cocky? Kobe and Shaq should have won for years but egos got the best of them eventually. The game changes. Maybe the league will start playing big like the Jazz again and GS has to try to adapt? I think if the Jazz are really going to spend money and can get say Millsap and Hill they could make it interesting next season.

[QUOTE] the Jazz have made it clear that their rebuild period is over. They traded for a veteran point guard in George Hill last offseason. They inked Rudy Gobert to a lucrative extension. They

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18 makes the most sense. Leave college to student athletes. Leave the D-league to young guys that want to play basketball

Rudy Gobert: When you get

Wearing a grey Jazz hat, a jacket and pants, Jazz forward Boris Diaw is currently on quite an adventure

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[QUOTE]Schlenk said one of his top priorities is bringing back Millsap, a four-time All-Star who opted out of the final year of his contract.

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[QUOTE]the Jazz need to draft a guy that can contribute, even if only for a few minutes a night, this season. [/QUOTE]

How likely is that? The only guy that really looked ready by the end of his rookie year was Hood and he went to college for 4 years.

[QUOTE]Draft n

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[QUOTE]Still the fact remains that they are the only team that

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[QUOTE]Jawun Evans is undersized. In today’s NBA point guards are commonly in the 6’3”-6’4” range. Evans is just under 6’0” in shoes. No matter how tough Evans plays defense he will almost always be giving up size to the man he’s guarding. Opposing players will be able to shoot over him whether he’s guarding his man or switched onto an ever bigger player.[/QUOTE]

Need to tell us his length before you say that. Height really means litle

[QUOTE]Point guard is the largest area of emphasis for the Jazz this summer. Evans won’t be a plug and play starter, at least not as a rookie. Utah only has two point guards on the books at the moment but they’d be happy to re-sign George Hill and Quin Snyder’s love for Shelvin Mack can’t be expunged by something as trivial as unrestricted free agency. PLUS the Jazz are rumored to be looking at PG Miloš Teodosić from overseas. All things considered it doesn’t seem that there would be space available for Evans in the upcoming roster if Dennis Lindsey has his way.[/QUOTE]

You already have Neto, Exum and Wallace though the latter two could play on the wing with their length. I'd say after center they could take about anyone really or no one.

[QUOTE]Not draft Jawun Evans because our point guard concerns can’t be addressed late in the first round of the draft.[/QUOTE]

Don't think any need can other than filling out the Stars roster