Most disappointing regular season ever?

[Sloanfeld]

The lockout didn't do us any good, playing 50 games in like 90 days.

[seejaydeja]

^ Nice post E23.

The only problem is that those franchises have a certain risk taking flexibility that our Utah Jazz franchise has yet to even remotely approach.

Exactly. As long as KOC is runnin the front, our FO doesn't have the balls to make big change to the team. This franchise has always been about stability.

[MeestR]

this is second to 99 i think
this year, we were supposed to be contenders. challenge for homecourt throughout. we got slaughtered by injuries yet were still in the thick of it. when people got healthy we went on that awesome streak and it looked like we could get into 2nd or 3rd and still be close to expectations. instead well...

99 was similar in disapointment. but expectations were higher because we had done it 2 years previous.

we'll see in the playoffs if this really is disapointing. there are still chances though. ive always said to myself that its not worth getting to the finals if you dont knock of houston, la and san antonio in getting there. as far as the layout, it could still happen, just outa order a little bit.

[erudite23]

That's because stability is what breeds success. Most of the time, taking the risky option will screw you over. Everyone looks at Boston's move in trading for KG and RayRay, or LA hitting it big with Bynum in the draft or Orlando taking Dwight #1 over the safer prospect in Emeka Okafor, but then they dismiss the foibles of drafting Olowankandi #1 or trading Elton Brand for the right to draft Tyson Chandler or the drafting of Kwame Brown or the signing of an injured Elton Brand to a max contract, or the signing of Kenyon Martin to a max contract or the trade for Stephone Marbury...need I go on?

You take a big risk and it goes south, your franchise goes into the tank, you lose your job and your city might even lose its team.

That's what happens when you take a risk just to take a risk, don't do your due diligence...or even when things just don't turn out. It has to make sense. It has to be calculated, and it has to be a situation in which the odds are tilted in your favor. Deals like the Laker Gasol deal and the acquisition of Shaq for the Heat don't come along often. And they never seem to come along to the Utah Jazz. The only one I can think of is the deal in which we were able to steal Jeff Hornacek away, and even then we gave away a quality player in Jeff Malone to acquire him.

I really feel that if the right deal came along, the Jazz would be willing to take the risk. We don't really know what kinds of opportunities Jazz management has passed up on. All we know is that we are currently rooting for a team that was the 4th worst team in the NBA 4 years ago and has been a legit Western contender for 3 years now. That is impressive to me.

Give me stability and continuity over risk and wheeling-and-dealling 99 times out of 100. But it's that one time that you have to be willing to stick you neck out. I think the FO is willing and ready to do it if the right deal comes along.