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I don’t really have much of an answer, but I think trading Ingles for a “tough” guy could be a solution. But Houston isn’t trading Tate for peanuts. There’s a reason you’ve seen more speculation about Jae’Sean Tate heading there than Eric Gordon. Barring that, the Jazz seem to be missing dogs. They could really use Chris Paul, but then again everyone could use Chris Paul. Getting another big would be a mistake because Gobert is already irreplaceable for them and if he get hurt, the season’s over anyway.
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They could maybe use a shooter who gives them a consistent two-way upgrade over the shooters currently on their roster. The Jazz don’t necessarily need another ball-dominant player since (when healthy) they have two of those players already. So if you’re Utah, how do you maximize this roster? Every player mentioned has at least one more year on their deals except Ingles. They even have an electric sixth man to help guide the offense when Mitchell sits (Jordan Clarkson). They have surrounded Mitchell with another ball-handler (Mike Conley Jr.) and shooters (Royce O’Neale, Bojan Bogdanovic, Rudy Gay, and Joe Ingles). They have an alpha on offense (Donovan Mitchell) and an elite rim protector (Rudy Gobert) to make up for their so-so- perimeter defense. The Jazz are interesting because you look at the team as currently constructed and you wonder how they can get appreciably better. Carlos Boozer isn’t walking through that door. There’s no Andrei Kirilenko or John Stockton on the team. While the generational hate for the Jazz is omnipresent, these Jazz don’t have the same instigators that the 90s teams or 00s teams did. When fully healthy, they can hang with anyone in the league. The Utah Jazz are 29-15 and sit in fourth place in the Western Conference. In fact, the last time the home fans saw the Rockets win at the Yote was at the end of the 7-game winning streak. That might be a bad thing since the Houston’s five most recent wins have all been on the road. So the days of the team spending a long time away from the confines of Toyota Center are dwindling. They have a 4-game road trip that is broken up by the All-Star Break, so that’s really a 3-game trip, as well as another 3-gamer in late March. Tonight marks the fourth game in the longest road trip remaining for the Houston Rockets this season.