2018 off-season

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https://collegebasketball.nbcsports....take-a-detour/

[QUOTE]Because the Utah Jazz still want him, or at least they are not yet ready to dispose of him. He wasn

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/07/17/uta...-royce-oneale/

[QUOTE]He could also find further obstacles in a healthy Dante Exum and in Alec Burks if he can somehow maintain his playoff performances from this past season and crack back into the regular rotation. If O

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https://www.slcdunk.com/the-downbeat...novan-mitchell

[QUOTE]The Jazz now get to roll the same lineups that got them to the second round of the playoffs last season. Don

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SportsCenter: Donovan Mitchell lit up the NBA this year, earning him the Best Breakthrough Athlete.

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[QUOTE]Eddie Sefko: Here

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[QUOTE]Bernstein & McKnight:

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/07/19/uta...s-rudy-gobert/

[QUOTE]Another goal that Rudy should have in order to reach his utmost potential is to get off to a fast start in the upcoming season. For the past two seasons, Gobert

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https://www.deseretnews.com/article/...he-future.html

[QUOTE]With all the summer transactions, the Jazz are now nearly $17 million over the league salary cap

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The Utah Jazz have notified Papa John

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OKC has gotten a lot better while the Jazz stood pat

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[QUOTE]Albert Nahmad: The Sacramento Kings are the last NBA team with significant cap room. They have $20.5M.

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/07/19/for...ments-defense/

[QUOTE]However, even if adding Jabari would have been feasible to begin with (which it really wasn

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https://www.slcdunk.com/research-sta...zz-free-agency

[QUOTE]When you combine what Favors does on both ends of the floor, you find that he

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https://www.slcdunk.com/2018/7/22/17...novan-mitchell

Okay, that’s not fair to say, but to the casual NBA fan Utah’s plan of attack of building on one of their most successful surprise seasons in recent memory it would seem Utah didn’t do anything. They re-signed all of their free agents: Derrick Favors, Dante Exum, and Raul Neto. They guaranteed the contracts of all their players, minus Jonas Jerebko, on second year team options: Thabo Sefolosha and Ekpe Udoh. The Utah Jazz even brought back both their two way players from last year: Georges Niang and Naz Mitrou-Long. The signed Niang to a long term deal and re-signed Mitrou-Long as a two way player. To the outside casual fan, looking at Utah’s roster from last year to present, it would seem Utah has done nothing, the status quo, but that is not true. Utah has done something that they haven’t done in 10 years: keep a 90% or higher roster continuity from year to year.

For good reason. They got smoked by Huston. The same guys will get smoked again. They need shooting! Long was only with the Jazz briefly. Believe Niang actually took his buddy's spot with the Jazz. Long was with the Stars all year though

That might not seem like a big deal, but when looking back at the only seasons in Utah history where Utah had 90% continuity or higher, the results were interesting. Keep in mind that when a team keeps a roster together that is usually an indictment on the caliber of team that they have.

It also shows that the team has never been all in. When the guys you have aren't getting it done you make some changes

The chart shows 2 seasons they had more losses bringing most of the team back. 2 seasons they did better. This year you'd think they'd do better in the regular season though the west is even tougher but they still will get beat in the playoffs with a team that can't spread the floor

Next year’s Utah Jazz team will have a 92% roster continuity. It will also be the first season since 2010 that the Utah Jazz have had the same starting point guard in two consecutive seasons. That isn’t a typo. Starting point guards since Deron Williams left:

Too bad it's Rubio. Maybe I got spoiled with Green, Stockton and Deron?

Now Trey Burke did start the following season after his rookie year, but many will remember that Dante Exum took over the reigns midway through the year. Then that following summer Exum was hurt, and Raul Neto took over starting point guard responsibilities until the Jazz made a trade for Shelvin Mack. The Jazz have been a revolving door of a roster since the Deron Williams trade.

“We don’t want to be teaching guys to catch up with our system,” Exum said. “We had a lot of ups and downs. Hopefully we can continue from there.”

Nice and all but you not being able to put the ball in the hole is a major problem!

“I think the Jazz played a pretty smart middle ground,” said Tim Bontemps, a national NBA writer for The Washington Post. “They kept this group together and kept their flexibility for the future if it doesn’t work out.”

The problem with that is we already know it can't work out. You have to put some shooters on the floor other than Ingles. It's that simple!

The Utah Jazz did the basketball equivalent of saving your video game right before the boss battle. If this season goes well and they find success they can bring the same team back and make another run. If they find out that the second half of last year’s season was a fluke, they have incredible roster flexibility to make moves or allow these players to walk in free agency while having the space to go out and chase a Max Free Agency Player. In other words, they can go right back to their last saved point next year.

We already know it was a fluke after watching Houston destroy them. You waste a valuable season by bringing back the same team. Careers go by fast as we saw with Stockton and Malone or the brief Deron era

Ricky Rubio isn’t adjusting to all new teammates.

But he's still not hitting shots, making horrible passes and playing a matador on D.

Derrick Favors gets to stay in his element and re-signed with Utah knowing his role for the upcoming season.

You forgot to tell us about his improving corner 3

Dante Exum is finally healthy and doesn’t have PJ Tucker destroying his shoulder. He gets a full offseason to get better and he knows what his role is.

His role is super 6th man thanks to his new contract. He has to step up a lot based on that. I'm very skeptical he can and they are stuck with him for 3 years

Raul Neto will be in his 3rd year with Utah now. He knows his role as a 3rd point guard on the team, but gets to continue to hone his craft with the best development staff in the NBA.

And continues to sit with Burks behind inferior players

The list can go on and on. When a team is stacked with talent and has a development staff that knows what they are doing, betting on internal development isn’t just some buzzword to make up for a bad offseason; it’s actually the best thing for a team going forward.

Bradley. He gets to sit behind 3 other guys despite his improvement.

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https://thejnotes.com/2018/07/22/uta...e-exum-emerge/

[QUOTE]When the Utah Jazz selected Dante Exum with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, many fans were elated. Exum was being hyped as one of the league