Much better situation for Joey if he sticks there, playing for a young flakey roster with a promising head coach.

His pre-season with the Clippers was absolutely terrible so he's pretty lucky to get this chance.

An interesting aside: it will be super frustrating for Ingles to be behind Dante Exum in the depth chart all of a sudden...

Yet another Aussie signed by my Jazz! It's a shame we waived Motum!

He looks a good chance to make the 15 man roster too as we've waived Carrick Felix to make room for him and Jordan Hamilton. The only concern is Jordan Hamilton is signficantly better than Ingles and unless we want two small forwards I don't see Ingles sticking around. Having said that, the report also mentioned that Ingles was a good friend of Exum's and has acted as a mentor for him while in the Australian camp.

Jazz depth chart looks like this.

C Kanter/Gobert
PF Favors/Booker/Evans
SF Hayward/Hood/Novak/Hamilton/Ingles
SG Burks/Clark/Murry
PG Burke/Exum

I hope he sticks around!

Added to that..many Utah fans were actually mad that Motum got cut.

They rated him quite highly.

They are very frustrated with Kanter though.

They should trade Kanter for sure, and even listen to offers for Favors IMO.

I think if you're going to go with the Burke / Burkes / Hayward / Favors core, then that guy playing the four spot has to be a top 8 talent AT LEAST if you want to be seriously competing for championships in the future. And Kanter ain't gonna get anywhere near there. We still have no idea what position Exum is going to play when he's fully developed, let alone how good he is going to be, so you have to hedge that bet if you're the Jazz..

They are trying to combat the floor-spacing issues by using Kanter as a stretch four, but despite an improved outside stroke, he's yet to prove that he can hit the long-ball at a good enough strike rate, and lord knows he's too slow to guard opposing 4s.

Snyder looks to be a really smart coach, so you'll see what they are all capable of in a proper system soon enough.

Tyrone Corbin was a godawful NBA coach, so a lot of these guys were asked to do stupid things that weren't conducive to making them look good. Hayward has already looked a lot better without being asked to carry the world on his shoulders.

Really interesting crossroads for this franchise. I don't think this core that they are betting on tops out as a contender unless every single young guy eclipses their projected ceiling, which is highly unlikely.

I'd be shaking it up a little.

They should trade Kanter for sure, and even listen to offers for Favors IMO.

I think if you're going to go with the Burke / Burkes / Hayward / Favors core, then that guy playing the four spot has to be a top 8 talent AT LEAST if you want to be seriously competing for championships in the future. And Kanter ain't gonna get anywhere near there. We still have no idea what position Exum is going to play when he's fully developed, let alone how good he is going to be, so you have to hedge that bet if you're the Jazz..

They are trying to combat the floor-spacing issues by using Kanter as a stretch four, but despite an improved outside stroke, he's yet to prove that he can hit the long-ball at a good enough strike rate, and lord knows he's too slow to guard opposing 4s.

Snyder looks to be a really smart coach, so you'll see what they are all capable of in a proper system soon enough.

Tyrone Corbin was a godawful NBA coach, so a lot of these guys were asked to do stupid things that weren't conducive to making them look good. Hayward has already looked a lot better without being asked to carry the world on his shoulders.

Really interesting crossroads for this franchise. I don't think this core that they are betting on tops out as a contender unless every single young guy eclipses their projected ceiling, which is highly unlikely.

I'd be shaking it up a little.

Also: do you sell high on Rudy Gobert after his World Cup and nice pre-season or hold onto him in the hope that his form translates to the big boy games?

Rodney Hood looks good as well. They have some key pieces but they need to make a couple of moves before they settle on a core.

If Exum shows enough as a PG/SG I can seen them throwing up Burks or Burke into a trade with either Kanter or Favours for another top draft pick or combination of picks/player.

I think they move 1 of Favours or Kanter and keep Gobert as the back up.

They love Parker but so does the Bucks and they aren't moving him.

I'd love to see Utah make a move for Monroe or Smith at the Pistons - i.e for Burks or Burke/Kanter or Favours

Great to see Jazz recognise Ingles talents and sign him, hopefully he works hard and earns a spot of the active players list.

Where to for Motum?

I really think if given the chance, Motum will impress and surprise some, he seems like a hard worker with talent and is an adept scorer. He definitely seems more aggressive a scorer than Ingles who has a tendency of playing passive.