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I was a bit surprised how pretty much everyone wants for Collins to be quickly gone. I kinda like him. He is very consistent in what he brings to the table, and he is the only player other than Dunn who has some toughness and is ready to compete and fight every day and against everybody. I am...

Based on his past drafting patterns, Ainge has clear and consistent drafting preferences. Most importantly, he drafts players with a good size for the position. If you are undersized you have to have at least the reach and strength (see Terry Rozier). He is not a big fan of pure shooters (like...

Yes, it is rare for wings to reach the level of Kawhi.

Of course teams became better at drafting over time: there is much more tape on prospects, much greater use of analytics, better understanding of what the teams can improve in prospects by coaching and physical programs. The reason why the draft is still far from certainty is because the talent...

Actually, the opposite is true. The NBA teams were much, much worse at drafting in the past. This is the link to the first picks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_overall_NBA_draft_picks. Since they are color-coded you can see that back in the 60s and 70s many 1st picks simply failed...

OK, the polling update: more people voted and, while, the other trends held, poor Sexton seem to have received a boot. A clear majority, 11 to 5, wants him to be traded soon. I guess, most of the people do not believe that Colin is a starting point guard on a contender and want to cash out after...

OK, so the collective mind of Jazzfanz has spoken. I was surprised to learn that there is very little disagreement about what the Jazz should do in the next 12 months. Almost everybody wants the Jazz to go full tank, unlike what the team did in the last two seasons. The available considerable...

Actually, you listed 3 times out of 30. And you can add to it 2 more: Garnett did not play on the MVP level for Boston, and neither did Kawhi and Duncan in 2014. So, 5 times out of 30 years: it's rare, but it happens.

This gives me the flashbacks of designing the team around Gobert. The problem with building a team to cover for the weaknesses of your starting center that it REALLY limits your options: you need to trade for or draft other players with a very specific skillset. You have to either wait for these...

I know that there are already a lot of topics about what the Jazz should do but I think that a mega poll about the possible strategies can help to add something to them. Please select an answer for each pair. That means that you can cast up to 7 votes, one for each of seven pairs. I understand...

Except it never happened: The Wolves played only 8 players for the game. You probably talking about the beginning of the 2nd quarter, when Minnesota went with Conley & McDaniels + bench against Murray & MPJ + bench. Also, don't forget that the Wolves have a stronger bench with Reid. In those two...

That's the strangest take. You can with the same confidence say that the game has never been close and has been a complete blowout by Denver except for... (insert any two stretches when Minnesota scored several points in a row).

The first stage of grieve is denial.

And you know, we could have done the same: traded away good veterans for picks and put a bad team and young players on the floor for a season. The draft is design to help the teams doing exactly that. But Ainge wanted to be to cute: to play a decent team for a half or season and then either...

Well, it's easy to fix: lets trade the bad 10th pick for the awesome 11th! 11 picks recently drafted SGA, Sabonis and Klay.