The year they picked Exum don't get this.

The Jazz actually moved down a spot in the lottery. Same as when they picked DWill. And the Exum year other teams were tanking with a bunch of d league players like Philly. Hard to be worse than teams who do that.
Not to mention the Jazz traded for a nber3 in Favors and picked Kanter high as well.

The only sure thing is to tank and to get lucky to get the number one pick the year players like Duncan and Labron come up, which is about every 8 years.