Official Rudy Gobert Trade Ideas Thread

[Handlogten's Heros]

Idk what to say but I told y’all a long time ago lol

If he gives us 7 good years here that is kinda what I expected... It has been fun as hell for the most part. I'd rather enjoy it for 7 or so years than worry about when he will leave us the entire time and then when it happens say "I was right yall!" Cuz... were you?

 

[Ineptimusprime]

Yeah, I hate to say it, but it’s probably inevitable that we are in full rebuild mode in 3-4 years.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If anyone believes that a young African-American kid that cares deeply about social justice issues and that grew up in NYC/Connecticut will voluntarily choose to spend his entire NBA career in Utah, I have some real estate on the moon I could sell you.

He will opt out his last season or more likely, will ask to be traded sooner. He’s gonna be professional the whole time about it, but everyone best just prepare yourselves for this in the back of your mind.

Add to the top paragraph "that also isn't friends with the other franchise cornerstone".

Let's not trade anymore future picks... I think the re-build is 2-3 season away. I hope we do it right this time. This dance we did with Hayward not quite on Rudy's timeline who is then not quite on Don's timeline is tough.

 

[oneye]

If he gives us 7 good years here that is kinda what I expected... It has been fun as hell for the most part. I'd rather enjoy it for 7 or so years than worry about when he will leave us the entire time and then when it happens say "I was right yall!" Cuz... were you?

Yes I was, because everything about him is just a PR mask. He’s a great talent, but in the end he’s a fraud person. It’s fine to enjoy it, it doesn’t mean you can’t be real too.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Add to the top paragraph "that also isn't friends with the other franchise cornerstone".

Let's not trade anymore future picks... I think the re-build is 2-3 season away. I hope we do it right this time. This dance we did with Hayward not quite on Rudy's timeline who is then not quite on Don's timeline is tough.

I'm down to trade future picks, but the player(s) coming back cannot be on the brink of falling off a cliff from old age. That **** is ***.

 

[LoPo]

The Jazz should definitely be operating under the assumption that Donovan leaves once he's able to, regardless of the success of the team, but that success might keep him. Whether Donovan loves it or not is much, much less important to me than that he is professional in the most important ways and is focused on winning here.

This notion that Donovan will carry us will result in a handful of mediocre years and nothing to show for it. He's awesome, but he's not that type of talent.

No player is good enough to carry a team to any sort of relevance by themselves. MJ was terrible before Pippen. LeBron did the most ever by taking that bad Cavs team to the Finals.

I'm not concerned about him leaving. I'm concerned about him getting frustrated with the roster dynamic and then I'll be concerned about him leaving. So far, I see no reason to believe that he wants to go.

 

[Ineptimusprime]

Add to the top paragraph "that also isn't friends with the other franchise cornerstone".

Let's not trade anymore future picks... I think the re-build is 2-3 season away. I hope we do it right this time. This dance we did with Hayward not quite on Rudy's timeline who is then not quite on Don's timeline is tough.

Yep, the best we can hope for is that Don telegraphs his intentions enough that we can trade him for something before we lose him for nothing. Honestly, if this is where things are headed, it wouldn’t be the worst offseason for him to demand a trade. We would get quite the haul for him right now.

 

[NUMBERICA]

No player is good enough to carry a team to any sort of relevance by themselves. MJ was terrible before Pippen. LeBron did the most ever by taking that bad Cavs team to the Finals.

I'm not concerned about him leaving. I'm concerned about him getting frustrated with the roster dynamic and then I'll be concerned about him leaving. So far, I see no reason to believe that he wants to go.

It's a long contract and players tend to leave at the end of them. And from where I sit, the team is just gonna get worse every year for a few years.

Again, we should assume he's gone as we get close to the end of the contract. That means doing what it takes in the intervening years to make them count. And hey, if it goes well enough, MAYBE he stays.

 

[fishonjazz]

I'm just going to flat out say I have heard from someone as a fairly reasonable source that he hates it here and leave it at that. I get that everyone fell in love with rookie Donovan who laid it on thick. I would say there's 0% chance he stays beyond that opt out year and likely asks for a trade prior to that. If some of you haven't seen a noticeable change in him I think you're just not paying attention or trying to ignore it.

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[NUMBERICA]

Yep, the best we can hope for is that Don telegraphs his intentions enough that we can trade him for something before we lose him for nothing. Honestly, if this is where things are headed, it wouldn’t be the worst offseason for him to demand a trade. We would get quite the haul for him right now.

That's not where I'd go, but if they were to, they should also trade Gobert while they're at it and do a proper ****ing rebuild for god damn once.

What was the benefit of the treadmill Corbin years, again?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Yep, the best we can hope for is that Don telegraphs his intentions enough that we can trade him for something before we lose him for nothing. Honestly, if this is where things are headed, it wouldn’t be the worst offseason for him to demand a trade. We would get quite the haul for him right now.

Nah... we owe a lightly protected pick to Memphis next year... the tear down would likely start after that pick conveys. Donovan will have enormous trade value when/if we went that route.

I hold out a little hope here in that the NBA may do something extreme to help stars stay with teams that drafted them. They tried and failed before. Rumblings are starting earlier and earlier now... I guess Zion wants out of NO... has had one healthy damn season. Luka has some discontent surrounding him... If it gets worse than it currently is it is really hard for the NBA model to survive having 25 farm teams. We shall see.

 

[LoPo]

It's a long contract and players tend to leave at the end of them. And from where I sit, the team is just gonna get worse every year for a few years.

Again, we should assume he's gone as we get close to the end of the contract. That means doing what it takes in the intervening years to make them count. And hey, if it goes well enough, MAYBE he stays.

I think he cares about his image. It would tarnish his image if he ever demanded a trade.

I think Don will be a lot like Dame and Beal. Those guys have stayed loyal, and I see no reason Don won't either. The only difference between them is that those guys can run their franchises. Right now, we are built around and defer to Rudy. Maybe that makes it different for Don from Beal and Dame.