Rewards of the tank:2014 off-season!

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[QUOTE]Chad Ford on night of 2013 Draft -

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[QUOTE]His season was derailed by a stress fracture of his left patella (knee cap) sidelining him for 8 weeks on January 29th.

He played 9 D-league games as well, scoring 11pts, grabbing 5 rebounds and dishing 2 assists while shooting 46% and hitting 33% of his three

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Eric Pincus: The Cavaliers sent $1.3 million to the Jazz to get the trade done today Twitter @EricPincus

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On Thursday, France also announced that big man Kevin Seraphin was not being released for the World Cup by his NBA team, the Washington Wizards. Seraphin has not fully recovered from arthroscopy surgery on his knee. FIBA.com

So with star center Alexis Ajinca announcing shortly before the start of the preparations for the FIBA Basketball World Cup that he will remain with his pregnant wife, who is due to give birth during the tournament, instead of playing this summer, Collet is okay. He'll have his squad ready when they arrive in Granada, Spain, for Group A games against Serbia, Brazil, Iran, Egypt and the tournament hosts. "This is a blow," he said of losing his 2.15m tall starting center, "but we must move forward with those who are there." FIBA.com

Gobert!

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After the season, Corbin was searching for a new home. Player personnel decisions was not the only thing that got Corbin fired, but it played a role.

Did it? I think he was gone the minute Lindsey was named GM.

Lindsey has taken the vet bat out of new coach Quin Snyder’s hand. The Jazz have 13 players under contract and the average age is 23.4 years. Steve Novak is a fossil at 31 years old. Jeremy Evans and Trevor Booker are 26, the other 10 are 24 years old or less.

“We decided to go extremely young,” said Lindsey.

Still 3 spots open and they need some vets no matter how much everyone loves to tank and play guys that aren't ready for prime time. They have a DLeague team to develop young guys. Don't have to play them at the NBA level if they aren't ready.

Uh, yah ... ya’ think?

Gordon Hayward has worn a Jazz jersey longer than anyone else, and he’s 24 and just finished his fourth season.

The Jazz are destroying the Bucks for the race to the league’s youngest team — Jazz lead 23.4 to the Bucks' 24.2. If the Jazz got rid of Novak they’d have to attach permission slips to their players' per diem.

Lindsey has this freedom because the team owner's have given him great autonomy. They’ve shown patience, spent money and supported drastic change.

It’s a tired storyline, but Enes Kanter, Alec Burks, and Rudy Gobert spent much of last season watching Richard Jefferson, Marvin Williams and even Brandon Rush steal their minutes.

Gobert didn't deserve to play. Still might not as much as everyone wants to pencil him in. He's got a lot to prove and the Summer League isn't the place to prove it.

Lindsey got rid of them and those that were playing them. Something tells me that Coach Q won’t be throwing 30 minutes at elder statesmen Novak (31), Booker (26), and Evans (26).

If he does, Lindsey might just give Snyder a wry smile and say, “I can do this all day.”

They gave Booker mid level money to sit at the end of the bench? Novak makes pretty good money for an end of the bench player too. It's where he belongs certainly. At some point you have to look to win games rather it's young guys or vets playing.

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Rockets free agent guard Francisco Garcia is considering the Rockets among a group of teams interested in signing him, his agent said on Thursday. Garcia

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Jody Genessy: Jazz guard Dante Exum will take a break from the Australian team to participate in the NBA's Rookie Transition Program from Aug. 5-7 in N.J. Twitter @DJJazzyJody

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Patrick Beilein is leaving West Virginia Wesleyan to take a job on coach Quin Snyder's staff with the Utah Jazz, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Beilein, the son of Michigan coach John Beilein, will work under Snyder in a player development and video coordinator role. Snyder plans to utilize Beilein's strengths as a shooting instructor with a young, developing roster. Yahoo!

Shooting coach might be the best move of the off-season! Still need DLeague coaches.

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West Virginia Wesleyan coach Patrick Beilein will join Jazz coach Quin Snyder's staff to help with player development and video work, it was confirmed to the Deseret News.

The 31-year-old Beilein is the son of Michigan coach John Beilein, whom Snyder recently complimented while talking about former Wolverine Trey Burke.

"Snyder plans to utilize Beilein's strengths as a shooting instructor with a young, developing roster," wrote Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski, who broke the news Friday afternoon.

Beilein played for his dad in college at West Virginia, helping the Mountaineers reach the Elite Eight, before embarking on a two-year international career. Since then, he's had multiple stops, including as director of basketball operations at Bradley, as an assistant coach at Dartmouth and as a graduate assistant at Michigan.

Utah recently added Lamar Skeeter in a similar position on Snyder's expanding staff.

Since being hired as head coach, Snyder has also hired Brad Jones (lead assistant), Antonio Lang and Alex Jensen as his bench coaches. Johnnie Bryant and Mike Wells round out his player-development staff.

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was the Skeeter hire reported?

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According to the West Australian newspaper, Brock Motum has been invited to training camp by the Utah Jazz.

The trade of Malcolm Thomas and Eric Murphy opened up spots on the training camp roster. However, with Favors, Kanter, Gobert, Booker, Novak and Evans present, finding a spot on the roster is going to be a tough task for Motum.

Motum, born in Brisbane, Australia, is 23 years old and played three seasons at Washington State. He played last season in the Italian League. He will be teaming with Utah

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Dante Exum should get a lot of minutes for Australia in the World Cup of Basketball next month.

The Utah Jazz see the tournament as a great opportunity for their first round pick.

"We

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Emiliano Carchia: Recent NBA draft picks Dante Exum and Cameron Bairstow have been included in the Australia squad to play at the FIBA Basketball World Cup Twitter @sportando

Don't get hurt! I assume Motum made it?

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As for the occupants of those seats in EnergySolutions Arena, Hayward also feels considerable responsibility to them. But that feeling has more to do with "25-57" than "$63 million." He

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[QUOTE]"The amount of [defensive] pressure on the ball is at an all-time high right now," Burke marveled after the first session of camp Monday.

So he