I would pursue a sign-and-trade for Lauri Markkanen depending on the asking price. Minnesota and San Antonio are reportedly interested in Lauri as well.
Jazz Offseason Plan
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homeytennis
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In the next couple of weeks you are going to see a bunch of players hit the waiver wire in the form of salary dumps, his team signs a free agent and he has to go for cap purposes or some sign and trade swaps and the receiving team just doesn't want the player.
Chicago is putting together a big offer for Lonzo Ball. Thad Young, Daniel Theis and Ryan Archi...whatever are available.
I think the Jazz would go after Nic Batum before Otto Porter.
Ineptimusprime
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Well that was fun!
Yeah but Clippers are gonna have the edge there. Porter might fly under the radar with his health issues and be a candidate to gamble on. I really think we shouldn’t spend much mental energy entertaining the idea of Batum.
I think Gay is a good candidate IF the Jazz are allowed to S&T Niang to the Spurs, otherwise he will probably go to a premier market/franchise if the offer is the same.
So I think Porter is worth targeting, otherwise it’s Torrey Craig or scouring the G-League/Europe.
Kawhi is out all next year, and Rudy is talking in Batum's ear every day during the Olympics.
Kawhi being out is just as likely to be a selling point as it is a detracting factor if he’s looking for a greater role/minutes.
But yeah, Batum is basically universally seen as high on the list so I hope you’re right.
If we’re over the LT, then we shouldn’t.
I think the Batum stuff comes from playoff PTSD where we saw him be competent but nail a bunch of key (wide open) threes. He’s solid all around, and we could definitely use that, but I think there may be a few guys who could do that who would be more relatively undervalued to Batum because of our decency bias compounded by trauma.
jom2003
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OPJ is the only guy i could think of.