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Utah Trade Deadline Discussion

LoPo said:
The Cavs can trade the Brooklyn pick for sure. However, who can they get with that pick who is worth it who is actually available?

Mirotic? Kemba? Expiring Lou Williams? Expiring Avery Bradley? DeAndre Jordan? Who else?

None of those guys are worth the Brooklyn pick. They are worth the Cavs pick, but Favors plays the position Love just vacated.

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I think we need to include our 2018 1st to get that Brooklyn Pick. Any ideas?

Something like.

Favs, Hood, Udoh, Utah 1st
For
TT, Osman, Brooklyn pick?
 
Any team that plans to face the Warriors in the playoffs could really use Favors to guard Draymond. Favors looked fantastic defensively against Draymond last night. Cavs, Celtics, Wizards, Thunder, Bucks...
 
infection said:
I think the appeal to authority as an explanation to anything that doesn't make sense is what gets me. People do this with physicians where their wisdom or training is elevated to be an answer when something doesn't make sense. "So you question the doctor who's been in school and training for 12 years?" I'd view GMing as similar to being a physician -- running a team requires a lot of decisions and managing many things that the superiority of the professional over the layman gets noticed with aggregate decisions. On individual decisions alone? It becomes more of a toss-up. You wouldn't want some arm-chair quarterback taking care of your mom in the hospital, but when it came down to a question like "should mom be on _____ medication" you may be surprised how often a lay person could stack up against someone with more training based on one isolated decision.

e.g. "should we trade for Rubio?"
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I guess what I was getting at was that it's less of an appeal to authority than an appeal to having complete information. DL is in a better spot to make decisions because he knows what is on the market, and what various asking prices are, etc. He is also aware of what trades we would be closing ourselves off from by chasing others. It could be that there is another awesome trade opportunity we have no idea about, and that trading for Mirotic would foreclose that option. I'm sure there are lots of factors that go well beyond what we can see from our vantage points.
 
Catchall said:
Any team that plans to face the Warriors in the playoffs could really use Favors to guard Draymond. Favors looked fantastic defensively against Draymond last night. Cavs, Celtics, Wizards, Thunder...
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Interesting thought considering that the Jazz are only 3.5 games out of the 8th spot and (would then likely) face the Warriors in the playoffs. Wonder if there’s any thought to extending Favors and ending that speculation?

Are the Jazz even allowed to do that?
 
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elan_prodigy said:
I think we need to include our 2018 1st to get that Brooklyn Pick. Any ideas?

Something like.

Favs, Hood, Udoh, Utah 1st
For
TT, Osman, Brooklyn pick?
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The Cavs have already stated multiple times that they are not trading the Brooklyn pick. The only way that I think that they would even consider trading that pick is if they are receiving a star player that can help them win the Finals this year and tempt LeBron to stay in town. The only players on the Jazz that fit that bill are Gobert and Mitchell and we aren't trading them. So the Brooklyn pick isn't happening. I'm not sure why its even being discussed.
 
SCS said:
The Cavs have already stated multiple times that they are not trading the Brooklyn pick. The only way that I think that they would even consider trading that pick is if they are receiving a star player that can help them win the Finals this year and tempt LeBron to stay in town. The only players on the Jazz that fit that bill are Gobert and Mitchell and we aren't trading them. So the Brooklyn pick isn't happening. I'm not sure why its even being discussed.
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Because they are getting another 1st (which hasnt been discussed).

Favs, Hood, Burks and taking a bad contract... isnt enough to move up 6-8 spots in the 1st round?
 
Catchall said:
Any team that plans to face the Warriors in the playoffs could really use Favors to guard Draymond. Favors looked fantastic defensively against Draymond last night. Cavs, Celtics, Wizards, Thunder, Bucks...
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Totally agree. And I wonder if this is one reason DL has kept Favors on as long as he has, with the hope that this might work in our favor. (Curse the injury luck these past couple years!)
 
elan_prodigy said:
I think we need to include our 2018 1st to get that Brooklyn Pick. Any ideas?

Something like.

Favs, Hood, Udoh, Utah 1st
For
TT, Osman, Brooklyn pick?
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Unlike others, I think the Brooklyn pick could be had for the right price. Just like anything, it has a price.

I personally would rather keep our space and our pick rather than take Tristan Thompson. He would not fit next to Gobert at all.
 
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