Justin Verrier

Pretty interesting, right?

Lowry's in there.

Jackson's in there.

Nurkic looking reborn as just like a playmaking hub for this team.

And then the fourth quarter hit, despite the fact that they were up seven, those guys just disappear.

And now there's another layer to this that the Magic actually struggled to win this game at the end.

And so that's another question we need to get to at some point.

But the Jazz's tanking has hidden, I want to say hidden another level, but they've been doing this because they did this the game before with Markkanen.

And I think it's kind of incumbent on us to be like pointing this out because the tanking has gotten worse.

And I think it's going to keep getting worse until people get mad enough about it.

I get that the incentive system is really the trouble here, especially for a small market team, because as we've seen time and time again, the only way for guys in Utah

in Portland, in Memphis.

The only way to luck into the type of talent that can put you on a certain level is to do so in the draft.

And the only way to do that is to tank.

I would argue that in recent years, it does seem like the flattening of the odds has kind of undercut that at the very least.

We've seen a lot of teams jump up even in the past couple of years since they've made that change.

I just think it's fine to point that out.

But I do think we're at the point where there needs to be action because this is pretty fucking embarrassing.

to basically say that we have, what, 30 more games left in the season, and they're just not going to try for a certain quarter, even though that they could be a different thing.

I think this deadline set it up so that the problem is going to be unavoidable, where you had a lot of teams that were bad making the biggest moves.