2015 Off-Season

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[QUOTE]General manager Dennis Lindsey mentioned the team

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Marc J. Spears: The Nuggets have made injury plagued but offensively talented forward Danilo Gallinari available for trade, a source told Yahoo Sports.

He was starting to get back his game last year. He'd definitely be someone to look at.

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[QUOTE][URL="http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/25223896/draft-buzz-celtics-trying-to-move-up-heat-contemplating-a-gamble"]While the Sixers have targeted D

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...os.html?pg=all

The team is reportedly interested in bringing unrestricted free agent and former Jazzman Paul Millsap back into the fold, according to 1280 The Zone’s Spence Checketts.

Others have reported that the Jazz are trying to move up from No. 12 (Jazz play-by-play announcer David Locke on a New York radio station) and that Utah is looking to improve its point guard situation (NBA.com’s Sam Smith).
The Millsap scenario might mean that the Jazz could look to move Derrick Favors, even though Lindsey continues to rave about the power forward’s progress and potential to help Utah win.

They let him go at a bargain rate and now want him back at max? I love him and I haven't been the biggest Favors fan but I can't see it at this point.

Trey Burke is often brought up as a possible trade piece, too.

I'm sure he's the main guy they will try to unload on someone. Cotton certainly made him expendable if he wasn't already. They need the roster spot for someone proven already.

Lindsey said he’s had many conversations with Jazz coach Quin Snyder about the possibility of playing more small ball, which would make a possible Millsap move an intriguing possibility because of the power forward’s improved shooting beyond the arc.


The last two NBA champions — Golden State and San Antonio — both used small lineups at times en route to their titles. The Jazz haven’t been able to do that much over recent years because of the abundance of good bigs, beginning with when the team boasted a frontcourt of Millsap, Al Jefferson, Favors and Enes Kanter.


Going small now would mean the Jazz would sit their biggest defensive strength, 7-foot-1 Rudy Gobert.

These beat writers see every game and practice and they haven't a clue. Rudy is the main reason you go small. He's arguably their best perimeter defender. He allows you to do almost anything you want around him. I wouldn't feel geat about Favors in the middle with a small line-up but Rudy, Maxi G, Hood and Burks hell yeah! Booker/Gobert looked really nice together as well. A smaller center would be nice at times and that's something they don't have.

“The thing we’d say specifically with us is we’ve had good fortune to collect a lot of good, young players and people, and they’re big,” Lindsey said. “They’re big for their position. We feel as though we want to capitalize on our size.”


Adding another big like Myles Turner (Texas), Trey Lyles (Kentucky), Willie Cauley-Stein (Kentucky) or Bobby Portis (Arkansas) could reinforce that big-man platoon and the Jazz's bigger-is-better mantra.


Lindsey is cognizant that his team used a bigger lineup to finish strongly in last season's second half.


“I think we saw the last 30 games what that can mean relative to our team. There’s no reason why for us to run from that,” Lindsey said. “In many ways, Derrick bails us out of that option. If Derrick was not as mobile or if he wasn’t good with the game plan or lacked instincts covering fours, it would be much more difficult.


“Derrick and his intelligence and mobility coupled with his size allows us to be unique. I would imagine we’ll continue down that path.”


That said, Lindsey wants the Jazz to be structured so they can adapt to lineups other teams throw at them, big and small.


“Roster building in my opinion is like having a good bullpen,” the Jazz GM said. “You better be able to match situations very well, because if you don’t that situation will come up and you’re in a bad way. We’re certainly mindful of that.”


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Exactly. You have to be flexible and their roster gives them a lot of options to do that. The days of Sloan letting the other team dictate what you do should be a thing of the past. Let teams match up to you.

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Jody Genessy: There continue to be rumblings about how the Jazz want to — and can — re-acquire Paul Millsap and might trade Derrick Favors, per my source.

Still hard for me to believe. So what do all the Millsap has to go so Favors and Kanter can play and Lindsey and Snyder can do no wrong think of this(which was pretty much everyone but me)?

Jody Genessy: The Jazz are looking to trade Trey Burke and would likely include him in a draft day deal, according to a source.

That's a no brainer. Will anyone take him is the question?

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[QUOTE]Adrian Wojnarowski: [URL="http://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA"]Interesting factor that negates Atlanta

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The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has hired Jeff Watkinson as assistant coach/integrated player development and Zach Guthrie as manager of basketball strategy/technology. Per team policy, terms of the agreements were not announced. For the past three seasons, Watkinson served as the strength and conditioning coach for the Atlanta Hawks (2012-15), who won a franchise-record 60 games in 2014-15 en route to the best record in the Eastern Conference. He rejoins Jazz Head Coach Quin Snyder after working with him in Atlanta (2013-14) and also at the University of Missouri (2001-06). Before working for the Hawks, Watkinson owned and operated Wat Training, where he worked with NBA players, including Pelicans guard Eric Gordon, to improve their strength, conditioning and basketball development skills. Prior to the NBA, Watkinson served as the head strength and conditioning coach at Indiana University from 2006-10, after holding similar positions at Missouri, Clemson, Charlotte and College of Charleston.

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Would assume Millsap is out of the picture now they've drafted Lyles.

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Lyles should be headed to Idaho unless he earns his way into the rotation. He's 19. Same goes for Exum and Burke(who will probably be gone). No one should be given minutes this year. Jazz should be looking to win every night this year and they still need a couple proven players minimum. The fact that there's even talk of Millsap has me hopeful that they are going to try to put together the best roster they can. They showed at the end of the year that they should be one of the best teams. You can't sit around and wait for guys to develop anymore. It's time to compete again finally!

He sounds like a good fit. Maybe even has the length and size to play some 5. Defense and extending his range are the questions now. The 2nd rounder sounds like a fit too as long as he isn't taking the spot of the veteran they need at the one. Makes Burke that much more expendable. I'd think Jerrett is probably gone too with Lyles picked.

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http://www.sltrib.com/blogs/jazznote...ey-breaks-down

Rudy is getting longer and Exum taller!

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...-grownups.html

Exactly. If it wasn't for Rudy they'd probably be tanking again. They have no choice but to compete now.

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...yles.html?pg=2

He's intriguing.

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more from Lindsey on them here

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http://www.sltrib.com/blogs/jazznote...z-picked-lyles

Booker sounds one dimensional. Jazz have guys that do a lot of things. Sounds like they tried to trade up for Winslow especially since he dropped and couldn't get it done.