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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 3886704, member: 297"] He's in a tough spot. He covers a lot of sins. They build everything around him. The reality is though... they don't have perimeter defenders on the roster. Ingles can be a pest, and sometimes he's Slow Mo Joe. O'Neale works hard and has the reputation as their defensive guy, but the reality is he's the best of a limited rotation and isn't elite. Might even be average. Bojan isn't consistently good on defense. Mitchell focuses on offense. Conley's small. Niang is a regular season guy. Oni, whatever. Who do you turn to? This was an obvious, glaring weakness on the roster but the front office decided to take a continuity approach coming off of the bubble, and it worked great for the regular season, but left the roster with a fatal flaw on perimeter defense. It makes the off-season moves more puzzling. They used their first round pick on what amounted to being their third string center, that is another true big man that can't play anywhere else on the court, when a guy like Desmond Bane was available. They gave their full MLE to Derrick Favors, a guy that strictly plays the 5. Between the draft pick, Favors and Gobert that meant they had nearly $37M in salary committed to guys that are true 5s at a time when most NBA teams field competent small ball lineups for at least some portion of every game. It gets worse next season when Rudy's raise kicks in, because they'll have $47M committed to guys that can only play center. It's absurd. That number is insanity. But they did that because they wanted to be able to play their style for 48 minutes a game. I guess it never occurred to them that they might ever need to adjust. Very costly thing to fail to realize. They had the resources to address the gap. They had their draft pick. They had the MLE. Instead they hung everything on Rudy and he eventually broke because they don't have any perimeter defenders or anyone that can give them a small ball look. I embrace chaos, so if I'm the Jazz - Snyder's done after a 3-1 playoff collapse and a 2-0 choke job, see if Carlisle is interested. Get a new front office. The training staff completely crapped their pants, so they're gone too. Mitchell and Gobert still work as your core. See if you can work out a sign and trade with Conley's new team so you have some roster flexibility. Dump Favors. Make some hard decisions on Bojan and Ingles. Go all chips in on Donovan as your creator/one and get some dudes on the perimeter that can actually defend. [/QUOTE]

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