The clocking is ticking on the Jazz to deliver a championship, Sarah Todd of The Deseret News writes. They have become a luxury tax-paying team and made some major front office changes along the way. The additions of Rudy Gay, Hassan Whiteside, Eric Paschall and rookie Jared Butler should make them deeper, but they also have some players near the end of their careers and All-Stars Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert are on max extensions, Todd notes.
We have more on the Jazz:
- Irv Roland has been added to Quin Snyder’s coaching staff, according to a team press release. Roland was on the Rockets’ staff from 2017-19. He began his career with the Celtics in 2004, assisting with video analysis. In 2005, he joined the New Orleans Hornets, also in the team’s video department, and worked there until 2010. He was also an assistant with the Suns from 2013-17.
- Conventional wisdom would suggest that Snyder won’t ride his rotation players as hard as he did last year, when the club finished as the top seed but struggled through an injury-marred postseason, Todd speculates. It will intriguing to see if Snyder changes that philosophy and if the main players will buy into it, she adds.
- The Houston Chronicle’s Jonathan Feigen has been rankings teams heading into training camp and places the Jazz at No. 4. Feigen notes the team didn’t make any major offseason moves, other than re-signing Mike Conley.
How about this,
Jazz get Simmons and Maxey
76ers get Bogdanovic, Conley and a future First
Jazz got Rudy and Paschal, so that they can play small lineups without Gobert. Very underrated summer.
A lot of Jazz fans are inarguably violent. Which compliments a team whose coaches and management have already agreed with certain players to be hateful/sportless. The Jazz are last place, no matter how cool any of their players are, are all losers.
I didn’t know they were so exciting. :D wth
Nentwith nods; so not Jazzy.
Utah link well done. Like in Memphis, the newspaper is still a free link with interesting beat writers. (Many sources are charging now to get your credit-card number.)
Link from link: link to deseret.com
Quinn Snyder, despite having a great haircut, is something of an old-time HC, often angry, red-faced & stubborn. Todd has always questioned why he doesn’t use a larger rotation even in the RS; Conley & Mitchell did wear down by the playoffs last year. Snyder said the previous GM did not supply players he could field, and he, like Nash in BRK, fell with his short rotation.
This year… ?
After the article, another link. I like this because when Memphis got their Clipper players in trade, I was like, *What do they want with those guys?— They must be done, back up the dumptruck*.
But the Jazz local reacted quite differently; tersely:
“Rajon Rondo and the Los Angeles Lakers are together again.”
That linked to this: link to nba.com
In Utah they react with some dread to Rondo in Lakerland!— which would not be wrong, given 2020 play. Rondo can pick teams apart while on the move. Something to recall if they meet in the playoffs.
Good Utah link. My long post is in moderation.