2018 off-season

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/10/uta...-stay-healthy/

Gobert was held out of 26 games due to a pair of knee injuries, and while he was off the floor Utah was nothing short of a disaster. While Rodney Hood was a member of the Jazz, he once again missed some significant time, as did Joe Johnson. And of course Dante Exum was out for all but 14 regular season contests.

Probably miss the playoffs if those guys are healthy!

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https://www.slcdunk.com/2018/9/9/178...to-notice-this

If it's the case that Alec Burks is in Quin Snyder's doghouse because he won't make the effort necessary to improve his defense the way Snyder wants him to, and that Burks wants a payday next season, it's questionable, given the salary cap issues throughout the league, that he'll do any better than Hood did.

Yeah it's better to have guys on the floor that suck at offense!

The question needs to be asked - will Burks be waiting for Dennis Lindsey to make him a QO at the end of the season, or somebody else? If Dante Exum, Royce O'Neale, and Ricky Rubio all play well this season (we'll stipulate that Donovan Mitchell will play very well), it's questionable whether Burks would even be playing much this season, given that in order to be traded, he needs to play, and if he doesn't play defense to Snyder's specifications, he won't - unless Snyder shows off Burks to gin up a market for him (while managing to minimize the effect of his lack of defense).

There's been interest in him. He can be traded. He better be bought out if he's not. He's too good to be sitting behind inferior players

Poll question - and I have no idea what will happen, but I'd like to see Burks stay with the Jazz and get a contract for more than the QO...whad'ya think?

I hope he's traded as soon as possible. He doesn't deserve this. Either does Neto or Udoh

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https://www.slcdunk.com/the-downbeat...ans-in-the-nba

The most bias and delusional anyway

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/11/whi...rs-in-2018-19/

[QUOTE]Ask many a Jazz fan, and they

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Shams Charania: Thunder star Russell Westbrook underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee and will be re-evaluated in four weeks.

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[QUOTE]Eric Woodyard: Here is NBA Hall of Famer Jason Kidd

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/12/uta...d-preseason/2/

[QUOTE]But honestly, preseason is exciting because it

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https://www.deseretnews.com/article/...ason-kidd.html

[QUOTE]And that

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/13/uta...ac-haas-no-18/

[QUOTE]They

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https://www.deseretnews.com/article/...bad-thing.html

General manager Dennis Lindsey & Co. may not have delivered on the hottest targets, but they brought back the logical pieces for the franchise.

And the illogical ones

Instead of bringing in outsiders, no team chemistry was ruined as Favors (two-year, $36 million), Exum (three year, $33 million), and Neto (two-year, $4.4 million) all reached deals within 24 hours apart.

Plenty of chemistry was ruined. Exum will be on the floor instead of better players

[QUOTE]It

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https://www.slcdunk.com/2018/9/14/17...-carmelo-bench

[QUOTE]I tend to think Sefolosha

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Orazio Cauchi: Sky Sports Italy mentioning that Jazz, Hawks and Nets remain interested in Nicol

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/09/15/uta...west-division/

Who cares?

[QUOTE]Not only that, but they lost Jamal Crawford who, although he certainly is aging, was a nice veteran piece for their second unit. They

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https://hoopshabit.com/2018/09/14/ut...-nba-season/2/

3. Grayson Allen will earn a spot in the rotation

Not really that bold for a team that usually plays rookies rather they earn it or not

1. Derrick Favors will be traded

Can only hope and that Rubio will be gone as well as Neto, Burks, Thabo and either Udoh or Bradley. Sadly they are now stuck with Exum

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https://www.slcdunk.com/2018/9/17/17...ayer-candidate

He had raw NBA ready skills that would be challenged on Day 1.

What skills are these? Length and speed aren't skills.

Big talk when the Utah Jazz supposedly had that guy in Gordon Hayward.

Hayward has led them to the bottom of the NBA!

Exum ended up starting for Utah by the end of the season and being part of a hard nosed defense that improved mightily when he and Rudy Gobert were inserted into the starting lineup. Then the offseason injury ...

As we've seen the past 4 years it's all about Rudy. Exum?

[QUOTE]In the 2016-2017 season, Dante Exum would need time to work himself back into game shape. He would need development time. While many hoped that this would be the year he could turn the corner, it just wasn