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We’re Superstarless
Posted by: KCJones on February 27th, 2013
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.And unwilling to let one develop. And as a Jazz Fan, I’m scared of that.
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post. It took me a long time to jump on the #FireCorbin bandwagon, but I’ve joined the movement. Mostly, it was when I recognized just how skewed his view of veterans versus young guys is from this Zach Lowe interview of Tyrone Corbin where he talks about Al like he’s this amazing defender because of his years of experience and talks about D-Fave like he’s this small weakling who can’t defend. I really don’t know if I can trust a front office that supports a coach so obviously biased towards veterans and so oblivious to the amazing talent he has in the young guys. This team NEEDS a coach that can develop guys and help realize young potential, but that’s NOT Ty. There is NO chance that Al Jefferson is or ever will be a superstar. There is NO chance that Paul Millsap is or ever will be a superstar. Same with every veteran on our roster. But there IS a chance we could have one sitting on our bench. There are four lottery picks sitting on our bench. And it feels like to ME that they are intentionally keeping them down, starting with Tyrone, then on up the chain to Greg Miller. I can only imagine what it feels like to them. D-Will once said that he hated Sloan for not playing him over Keith McLeod when he was a rookie. I think some of that rancor carried over until the day Sloan quit and D-Will got traded. Is that what we’re headed for with our young guys and Corbin? Sloan even said he was wrong to not play D-Will, and I think someday people will say about Corbin “Hey remember when Corbin benched Kanter and Favors to play AL JEFFERSON? What a moron.”
Seriously, wtf is this franchise doing??
We’re hoarding cap space like it’s gold, when you and I both know we’re not getting any player better than the Al Jeffersons or Paul Millsaps we already have on the team, even if teams decide they have to do a salary dump for tax reasons.
In a league that rewards you for having a bad season, I’m really baffled that we’re SO SCARED of being a non-playoff team that we won’t even take the chance to find out if we have a franchise player in any of our young guys and instead sign and play a bunch of mediocre veterans so we can AT BEST be a 8th, 7th or 6th seed at the EXPENSE of development of the young guys that we traded our only superstar-level talent since Stockton and Malone for.
The only way we’re winning anything long-term is if we get a franchise-type superstar player. We definitely DON’T have any starting for us. We MIGHT have one sitting on the bench, but we have a coach who’s not going to ever test out if we do. We’re NOT getting one in free agency, yet we’re hoarding cap space. I’m actually really really scared that we’re just setting ourselves up for a decade of mediocrity, when we could have set ourselves up for a decade of title contention, sacrificing the chance to find that franchise guy in our young guys and sacrificing additional draft picks (and chances at nabbing that superstar player) just so we could make the playoffs as a low seed for these two years.
I love watching the young guys play. But watching them, I really think Favors development in particular has suffered this year because of the front office’s strategy and Corbin’s veteran love affair. He was ready for more minutes. He was ready LAST trade deadline. He shows he’s ready, he shows he’s ready, he shows glimpses, we see flashes and STILL, nothing. Al starts. Favors gets some backup minutes. At some point, if you don’t get rewarded, you lose interest, you say ’screw you’, and you harbor resentment, your passion wanes. I think Favors is getting to that point.
Anyway, those are the thoughts, fears and frustrations of this Jazz fan.
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Very nice post KC. I Agree 100%. I’m sick of Jazz nation not being heard. Its pretty obvious to even the novice basketball fans what going on here. When my 84 yr old grandma says to me that “the younger guys are better than the older guys I think”, there is something wrong. She is one of those extremely novice-casual fans. If we miss the playoffs and havent developed Favors/Kanter more, the offseason cant come soon enough for me. FRUSTRATING
Even if we make the playoffs were going against san Antonio or OKC come on really 0-4 were out first round and we haven’t played the young guys to me that’s still a fail I’d rather developed the younger players and missed the playoffs for one year and get a young pg in the draft I think next year they should start favors kanter Hayward Burks and they should draft trey burke and go for it if they bring back Millsap he’s our 6th man what’s the worst that can happen we have a down year and get a shot at drafting parker.
I understand a lot of what you guys are saying, I really do. But to say that our young guys haven’t developed this season is ridiculous.
I would say moving Hayward to the 6th man has been the most important thing in his career thus far. He has really learned how to look for his shot there.
Kanter, Favors, and Burks have all really come around as well.
It’s frustrating beyond belief watching the starters every night dig a hole only to be saved by the bench, but what are your expectations for this season anyway? We have known from the start we weren’t a championship team, and our young guys have truly improved. We’ve also had a chance to see which of the vets are worth resigning in the offseason. I know the trade deadline was frustrating, but small markets have to be patient. I’m confident the FO has a plan for the future, and I’m confident the starting lineup is going to look completely different come next year.
Thank u for posting this KC— its good to know Im not crazy!!!
During the Al /Corbin era I find it funny how people say stuff that relates to how Al can “learn” to play better defense, like we are waiting for his defensive upside to develop; yet I also read a lot of the same people saying, Kanter and Favors arent ready offensively—completely overlooking tje fact that they are in their 2nd/3rd year….AND are getting crap minutes!! When Adam Morrison was giving more of an opportunity, there is something disgustingly wrong with that!!! But hey, maybr Al will develop into a better defender and more efficient shooter in his 10th year you know what they say about the “10th year jump” players have…..oh wait no one says that!!!
The only thing that has changed from last year, is that the Lakers havr really sucked early. Otherwise, Jazz would be where they were last year fight for the 8th spot. For game road trip against teams with winning records coming up might give way ti the Lakers. Corbin and KOC need to get FIRED on the spot if Jazz finish 9th behind Lakers!!!
I seriously doubt CP3 is salivating at the opportunity to play with Al….lol…I doubt it!! Are ONLY chance of stealing CP3 is if we had demonstrated the high potential of the C4 and developed them accordingly…..but instead we are playing Watson (at all) and Al iso heavy ball, which is boring and hard to watch at times, so I can imaging CP3 is not fantasizing about standing around dumping passes to Al! Hahaha
I have to gree with you Andy . When I was watching the pre game show I beleive it was saturdays game , they had a interview with Dennis Lindsey . What I was getting from what he said was that there are changes being made in the off season . He also stated that the cost was to much to make the move at trade deadline .
So here I am just sayin that we as fans will have to be patience till seasons end to see somthin happen . But I am sure that this team will be alot different next season .