All I keep hearing about is what the Jazz should give up for the opportunity to move up in the draft to draft Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker.  Names like Derrick Favors and Alec Burks are being bantered about as well as a slew of draft picks.  Many fans and talking heads feel that the Jazz should do whatever it takes to land a star the caliber of Wiggins and Parker.

Shockingly, I think that the Jazz should move completely in the other direction.  If you have to trade away half of you future, including your defensive backbone and your best scorer, it just doesn’t seem worth it.  And that doesn’t even take the draft picks into account.

I do think the Jazz should trade away the 5th pick, but I think that they should trade down. The reason for that is because the talent in the draft in the middle of the first round is much more polished and NBA ready.  If they could move the 5 pick for a shooter and a decent pick then that is the way to go.  The key to making this move work is because of the talent the Jazz have playing over in Europe at the moment.  Why use the early pick on a big with potential when you have the rights to Ante Tomic who is already a star overseas.  The same thought process comes into play when you see all of the point guard expected to go in the first round.  You already have a quality young starting point guard in Trey Burke to run the show, and the perfect backup earning his stripes in Europe in Raul Neto, who the Jazz wrapped up in the second round of the 2013 draft.

In this model, the Jazz would have three picks to use in one of the deepest drafts in years.  They could get three contributors who wouldn’t have the added pressure of being a top five pick.

Making these few key moves would give the Jazz a loaded young roster who can grow together without having ridiculous expectations like those that Parker and Wiggins would have to live up to.