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Would you trade Gobert for #1 Draft Pick?

Honestly, our return for Gobert wouldn't be that great.

Might be better off trading Favors if we were to trade somebody. I prefer Favors, think he's a better player, but he would get us a good haul. Fav and Gobert just don't play well together offensively. Maybe Boston would trade us the the Brooklyn pick, Bradley and Johnson for Favors and Burks. Idk.
 
pointgawh said:
Ben Simmon's ceiling is Kevin Durant, and the league going toward versatile big who can switch, pass and guard on the perimeter. One dimensional bigs like Gobert who has virtually NO offensive game has rapidly depreciating value in the changing league
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Yep. I'd trade Gobert for Simmons and move Favors to the 5. But before I'd do that, I'd trade Hayward for a player who can stretch the floor. In the starting 5 (and even when Exum returns), Utah has only ONE player who is a 3PT shooter. Hayward is at 36% but doesn't shoot them that much - and that's not that great a percentage. Teams can simply pack the paint. Defensively, Gobert and Favors form a great tandem, but Rudy is worthless on offense. If Rudy and Favors are to remain on the court together, Utah needs 3 other 3PT shooters.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Yep. I'd trade Gobert for Simmons and move Favors to the 5. But before I'd do that, I'd trade Hayward for a player who can stretch the floor. In the starting 5 (and even when Exum returns), Utah has only ONE player who is a 3PT shooter. Hayward is at 36% but doesn't shoot them that much - and that's not that great a percentage. Teams can simply pack the paint. Defensively, Gobert and Favors form a great tandem, but Rudy is worthless on offense. If Rudy and Favors are to remain on the court together, Utah needs 3 other 3PT shooters.
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100% agree. Teams didn't have time to scout last year, but now when you watch games you can see how incredibly congested the paint is, they know Gobert can't leave the paint when playing O, effectively taken the lane to drive out of the team offense and allowing our subpar 3-point shooters have at it. At times we deliver on the 3's but teams are willing to live with the odds with the current set of shooters we have.
 
Would Favors for Horford and a 1st make sense? We'd stretch the floor much better then. How is Al defensively?
 
Our biggest problems to me are:

Offense-mediocre ball movement, lack of a killer instinct guy
Defense-Exum, a healthy Gobert
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Our biggest problems to me are:

Offense-mediocre ball movement, lack of a killer instinct guy
Defense-Exum, a healthy Gobert
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I truly think we just need a real go to scorer.
Those guys are hard to come by though.
Maybe hood can eventually be that guy?
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Our biggest problems to me are:

Offense-mediocre ball movement, lack of a killer instinct guy
Defense-Exum, a healthy Gobert
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I'm really serious about the ball movement. Watch the Spurs and Dubs. Passes are ultra crisp and on target.

Not us. Not even close.
 
fishonjazz said:
I truly think we just need a real go to scorer.
Those guys are hard to come by though.
Maybe hood can eventually be that guy?
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Maybe that's Murray who we can draft this year.

I don't know. Maybe missing the playoffs will be a good thing. It will get Gobert to work his *** off this summer on his offensive game after being fellated for about eight straight months last year. Sorry, I doubt he was this hungry machine like everyone made him out to be.

Maybe it will cause the rest of the core to make incremental improvements too.

And maybe Exum comes back like some scary 14-7-4-2 guy.
 
Honestly, we really could use a Mike Conley. Dude is fiery, not too old, and has the exact personality we need imo. He would take such a burden off the other guys in that sense; they wouldn't be looking around anymore in close games during a whistle. He'd grab the bull by the horns. I wanna give Exum a chance but is there any reason Conley can't play 31 minutes at the point with Exum playing 17 there and another handful or two at the two?
 
Exum will come back and provide killer dribble penetration before halfway through next season, he'll be able to throw Rudy enough good lobs that he will no longer be a liability on offense so much. All good
 
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