I don’t get this — I feel like best case scenario this will make us a play-in team in a strong conference.
Ryan is a much better owner than the Millers, but I feel like he makes very quick decisions without fully thinking them through.
Caracasdogajo
Man I’m sure glad we had such a successful rebuild. Here is to being first round exits for the next 5 years.
SenHeffy
Why hire Ainge to then not actually go through with it?
hdmetric99
This list HAS to be satire. None of these guys are moving the needle alongside Markkanen. We are WAY better off using our picks to build a deep, young roster with talent that could fill all types of roles. One of those prospects could become that alpha superstar that we’ve been missing. Shortcutting the rebuild would be a short-sighted and terrible decision.
Rayces
I’m really starting to question Ryan Smith. This trajectory places us right back at a first or second round exit and this will all have been for nothing.
Ok_Acadia3526
I’m not buying this report… I don’t know who is feeding the story but Ryan Smith hired Danny Ainge for a reason. And it wasn’t to pressure Ainge into doing Smith’s bidding
divineinvasion
You know who is good? That Donovan Mitchell guy.
m_c__a_t
This is awful
epoch_fail
It doesn’t seem like there’s a source for “Jazz owner reportedly pushing front office to add stars now”.
Closest thing I see is that:
> Utah is expected to explore trading the No. 10 overall pick and the other first-rounders this year, league sources told HoopsHype. There’s a belief from some around the league that Utah’s owner, Ryan Smith, would like to add more star talent to the Jazz, and Ainge has aggressively monitored the trade market.
This quote says that “There’s a belief from some around the league,” which means jack squat and certainly doesn’t mean what the title of this article is insinuating.
Going further back (to Ainge’s exit interview with the SLTrib) brings us to this quote:
> Ainge noted that trading for a big-game player is easier said than done. After all, he noted that the team has been trying to trade for such a player for the last two seasons, and fallen short. > > “We felt like we were close (on a trade) once in this process that would have changed the dynamic of our team immediately,” Ainge said. “But that hasn’t happened.” > > It’s not immediately clear who Ainge was referring to, though perhaps the best guess is the Jazz’s well-chronicled chase in acquiring Jrue Holiday from the Portland Trail Blazers last summer. Instead, Holiday was traded to the Celtics for Malcolm Brogdon, Robert Williams, and two first-round picks; Holiday reportedly turned down the Jazz’s offer of a contract extension after a trade. > > But the Jazz are in a tricky situation: They want a star, but they want to be selective about who they acquire. > > “We don’t want to get go from the 23rd-best team to the 18th-best by giving up a bunch of things, either,” Ainge said. “That’s not our objective.” > > In particular, Ainge said that the Jazz are “not really interested in dinosaurs.” > > “We’re interested in good 6-7 year (players),” he said. “I’m not saying that we wouldn’t go get some veteran player for a short-term fix to buy us some time, but that’s not as likely. It’s possible.” > > Like Jazz general manager Justin Zanik did recently, Ainge referenced the competitive playoff situation, and said he’d be watching Tuesday night’s Play-In Tournament games to see which Western Conference teams may see their seasons end and may be forced to change their roster. > > “The transformative players are hard to come by. And that’s what we’re looking to do, we’re looking to find one of those,” Ainge said, before turning to a joking mood with Jazz play-by-play man Craig Bolerjack. > > “Any ideas?” Ainge asked him. “You can text me any of those ideas. I’m open to your opinions.” > > But most of all, Ainge indicated trading away the Jazz’s quality players — like Lauri Markkanen — isn’t on his mind unless it means improvement. > > “We’re going all in this summer to try to figure out what we can do to get better,” Ainge said. “That doesn’t mean that we’re going to throw all our chips in and it’s championship or bust — I’m saying our mindset is that we’re doing it only to try to win.” >
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I don’t get this — I feel like best case scenario this will make us a play-in team in a strong conference.
Ryan is a much better owner than the Millers, but I feel like he makes very quick decisions without fully thinking them through.
Man I’m sure glad we had such a successful rebuild. Here is to being first round exits for the next 5 years.
Why hire Ainge to then not actually go through with it?
This list HAS to be satire. None of these guys are moving the needle alongside Markkanen. We are WAY better off using our picks to build a deep, young roster with talent that could fill all types of roles. One of those prospects could become that alpha superstar that we’ve been missing. Shortcutting the rebuild would be a short-sighted and terrible decision.
I’m really starting to question Ryan Smith. This trajectory places us right back at a first or second round exit and this will all have been for nothing.
I’m not buying this report… I don’t know who is feeding the story but Ryan Smith hired Danny Ainge for a reason. And it wasn’t to pressure Ainge into doing Smith’s bidding
You know who is good? That Donovan Mitchell guy.
This is awful
It doesn’t seem like there’s a source for “Jazz owner reportedly pushing front office to add stars now”.
Closest thing I see is that:
> Utah is expected to explore trading the No. 10 overall pick and the other first-rounders this year, league sources told HoopsHype. There’s a belief from some around the league that Utah’s owner, Ryan Smith, would like to add more star talent to the Jazz, and Ainge has aggressively monitored the trade market.
from https://hoopshype.com/lists/aggregate-2024-nba-mock-draft-post-combine-intel-bronny-james-to-lakers/
This quote says that “There’s a belief from some around the league,” which means jack squat and certainly doesn’t mean what the title of this article is insinuating.
Going further back (to Ainge’s exit interview with the SLTrib) brings us to this quote:
> Ainge noted that trading for a big-game player is easier said than done. After all, he noted that the team has been trying to trade for such a player for the last two seasons, and fallen short.
>
> “We felt like we were close (on a trade) once in this process that would have changed the dynamic of our team immediately,” Ainge said. “But that hasn’t happened.”
>
> It’s not immediately clear who Ainge was referring to, though perhaps the best guess is the Jazz’s well-chronicled chase in acquiring Jrue Holiday from the Portland Trail Blazers last summer. Instead, Holiday was traded to the Celtics for Malcolm Brogdon, Robert Williams, and two first-round picks; Holiday reportedly turned down the Jazz’s offer of a contract extension after a trade.
>
> But the Jazz are in a tricky situation: They want a star, but they want to be selective about who they acquire.
>
> “We don’t want to get go from the 23rd-best team to the 18th-best by giving up a bunch of things, either,” Ainge said. “That’s not our objective.”
>
> In particular, Ainge said that the Jazz are “not really interested in dinosaurs.”
>
> “We’re interested in good 6-7 year (players),” he said. “I’m not saying that we wouldn’t go get some veteran player for a short-term fix to buy us some time, but that’s not as likely. It’s possible.”
>
> Like Jazz general manager Justin Zanik did recently, Ainge referenced the competitive playoff situation, and said he’d be watching Tuesday night’s Play-In Tournament games to see which Western Conference teams may see their seasons end and may be forced to change their roster.
>
> “The transformative players are hard to come by. And that’s what we’re looking to do, we’re looking to find one of those,” Ainge said, before turning to a joking mood with Jazz play-by-play man Craig Bolerjack.
>
> “Any ideas?” Ainge asked him. “You can text me any of those ideas. I’m open to your opinions.”
>
> But most of all, Ainge indicated trading away the Jazz’s quality players — like Lauri Markkanen — isn’t on his mind unless it means improvement.
>
> “We’re going all in this summer to try to figure out what we can do to get better,” Ainge said. “That doesn’t mean that we’re going to throw all our chips in and it’s championship or bust — I’m saying our mindset is that we’re doing it only to try to win.”
>
from this article https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2024/04/16/danny-ainge-is-going-big-game/.
There’s a bit more nuance there. Ainge is well aware that we aren’t going after anyone who is a “short-term fix”.
🐂💩