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Great trade idea

Hack said:
Let's just be honest. It was a bad pick and we are all desperately hoping he turns out to be decent.

I guarantee he has zero star potential. He's a role player at best. We should have aimed for higher upside.

We all hated the pick for a reason. There is nothing special about him. We'd be a lot better off exploring trades for him. I know that's not going to happen, but neither are any of these other trade ideas. We are all just fantasizing about the Jazz making a trade that will help. I know they won't even think about trading him. But that's just dumb. And in 5 years it will be proven to be the case.
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Trey Lyles has the upside of a max player, think Greg Monroe - Trey's more fleet of foot too.. If his shot/functional strength steadily improves, he'll be very dangerous with the ball in his hands - you could even throw him the ball with the shotclock running out and something good will happen..
 
This is a moment when you trade for a steady hand to mind the ship for a bit, not to trade for someone to take Exum's minutes next season.

Our upside this season is making the 7th or 8th seed and getting bounced in round one. That's not the ultimate end goal. You play to the end goal not the short term gain.
 
Sirkickyass said:
This is a moment when you trade for a steady hand to mind the ship for a bit, not to trade for someone to take Exum's minutes next season.

Our upside this season is making the 7th or 8th seed and getting bounced in round one. That's not the ultimate end goal. You play to the end goal not the short term gain.
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Exum is far from a sure thing. He is certainly no good to us if he becomes injury prone. The point guard spot is a huge weakness for us. We need to make sure we get it fixed soon.

We don't need a another big as much as we need a point guard. So maybe putting some of our asset value in the point guard spot might be better than keeping it in another backup.
 
Lyles is a great project as a third big. If he gets 15% stronger and a reliable 3-pt shot, then he's exactly what we need. And neither of those things are unreasonable to expect. I wasn't thrilled with the pick, but I see the upside. You don't dump that for a guy like Rozier. That's bat****.... pardon me, that's hack**** crazy.
 
Lyles has a real lack of rebounding sense that kind of troubles me. I hope it's just because he is overwhelmed physically, because he has the size and quickness to be a good rebounder.
 
NAOS said:
Lyles is a great project as a third big. If he gets 15% stronger and a reliable 3-pt shot, then he's exactly what we need. And neither of those things are unreasonable to expect. I wasn't thrilled with the pick, but I see the upside. You don't dump that for a guy like Rozier. That's bat****.... pardon me, that's hack**** crazy.
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For a guy like Rozier? Do you even have an idea how good he is? It seems like your whole opinion is based off where he was picked.
 
Hack said:
For a guy like Rozier? Do you even have an idea how good he is? It seems like your whole opinion is based off where he was picked.
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I know who he is. And I'm confident we can find a guy like him much easier than we could find another guy with Lyles' upside. ...Look, dude, nobody has supported this trade, so....
 
NAOS said:
I know who he is. And I'm confident we can find a guy like him much easier than we could find another guy with Lyles' upside. ...Look, dude, nobody has supported this trade, so....
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Because that proves its a bad idea.

Go bump every single trade thread from years ago. No matter how good it looks now, they will be filled with a bunch of people not liking it.

Sorry, but majority thought doesn't equal the right thought.
 
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