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Official Rudy Gobert Trade Ideas Thread

Brsn said:
I don't like this thread at all. Rudy is great. We need OTHER defensive athletic players around him. I feel that Mitchell and Rudy are off limits. However, anyone else including FO and coaching need to be available or on the hot seat.
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Rudy is great in the right condition. But in the playoffs, he’s been exposed every year when a team goes small ball and pops from outside as he can’t defend that far. Failure of the FO.

Need a 4 who can play outside in those situations and it ain’t Faves.
 
Rudy was the hero of game 1 with his last second block. How the tides turned for him amongst the fans. Rudy suffered from not having Conley on the offensive side of the ball. He should have averaged 5 lob-dunks per game easily. He struggled on defense as the Clips did a great job of stretching him out to 3 point land. Jazz could have used more zone to help Rudy. They also should have tried a true small ball line-up with Ersan or Niang at the five and force the Clips to guard five 3-point shooters.
 
Avery said:
Rudy is great in the right condition. But in the playoffs, he’s been exposed every year when a team goes small ball and pops from outside as he can’t defend that far.

Need a 4 who can play outside in those situations and it ain’t Faves.
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If we had 4 Kawhis out there with Rudy, the other team would play small and drive at Rudy like Jackson did time and again.

I'm glad we gave everything we had to the Rudy experience. I am. He's a special player and person, and we had to see if it could work. But it has just run its course. This is over.

If we didn't have Don, I'd say stick with it. But we have Don. We have a superstar. Build around him.

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Ujfanatic said:
Right now I’m guessing Gobert had very little trade value. If the Jazz were unable to be successful with him what would make any other team think they could be?

Maybe Thibs would love the chance to have Gobert, but you’re not getting much of value back from New York.

I said earlier and will say again, we should not trade Rudy. We should put better pieces around him and Donovan. Rudy was really bad this game, no doubt, but so was our entire defense.
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Burks!

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campaignist said:
Just look at the defensive numbers when Rudy is off the floor - even if you trade him, the rest of the team is still trash on defense. That needs to change either way.
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Conley is likely gone. Joe and Royce should stay.

I doubt Bojan nets us the type defenders we need to succeed around Rudy so Rudy will be traded.

We need Jerami Grant.

Don, Royce, Grant and Bojan has some balance. Our perimeter defense just got stronger. Add in some bulldogs to that mix. We need Beverlies.

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Ineptimusprime said:
I’m not trading Rudy because he had a bad game, I am trading Rudy because I don’t believe we can have long term success with his contract taking up half of our cap space. He belongs on a team like Sacramento that would just die and go to heaven to make the Playoffs, or catching lobs for Trae Young.
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Also it's not like this is the only bad playoff game Rudy's ever had. We've struggled bad against Houston and Golden State in the playoffs when they play small ball.
 
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