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Mitchell says he told Jazz to keep Gobert

TheStormofWar said:
Could happen both ways. And Don works on his D just as soon as Rudy works on his post game.
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That's the funny thing. Gobert has been working on it. It's better than his first few years and has been at least equal if not better each of the past few years. He just doesn't have that ability. Mitchell on the other hand was a plus defender and has degraded to a ****** defender. He has the ability, just refused to use it. Those things are worlds apart my friend. Give me the guy that tries over the guy that won't any day of the week.
 
I just watched the presser. IMO it(the quote about him wanting in NY) doesn't sound as bad in the full context of the quote as it reads in the few media titles I've seen. That's one thing you absolutely need to give to Mitchell... he's incredibly media savvy. One might say elite.
 
I can totally see DM telling the Jazz not to trade Rudy but I don't think he wanted to run it back; he probably told the Jazz to keep Rudy for a selfish reason - so they'd trade DM to New York.

Of course, the Jazz received an offer they couldn't refuse and Rudy was moved; moving DM to Cleveland was a big, joyous middle finger.

Joakim Noah was 100% right about Cleveland - it sucks. I grew up less than 100 miles from Cleveland. Though I'm going to have to venture into the ******** that is Cleveland so I can watch the Jazz.
 
kabenac said:
I can totally see DM telling the Jazz not to trade Rudy but I don't think he wanted to run it back; he probably told the Jazz to keep Rudy for a selfish reason - so they'd trade DM to New York.

Of course, the Jazz received an offer they couldn't refuse and Rudy was moved; moving DM to Cleveland was a big, joyous middle finger.

Joakim Noah was 100% right about Cleveland - it sucks. I grew up less than 100 miles from Cleveland. Though I'm going to have to venture into the ******** that is Cleveland so I can watch the Jazz.
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If he asked for them to bring Rudy back it was probably because his camp thought there was 0 chance the Jazz would trade him and understood that the only way the team would be competitive is if Rudy was still on the roster. Keeping Donovan and taking a major step back without Rudy would've been pretty terrible for his brand and how he's viewed around the league. Because it would've highlighted that he's probably not good enough to carry a team and that Rudy was more important/impactful when it came to winning.
 
LogGrad98 said:
That's the funny thing. Gobert has been working on it. It's better than his first few years and has been at least equal if not better each of the past few years. He just doesn't have that ability. Mitchell on the other hand was a plus defender and has degraded to a ****** defender. He has the ability, just refused to use it. Those things are worlds apart my friend. Give me the guy that tries over the guy that won't any day of the week.
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Let’s not start making stuff up now lol. Gobert has never worked on his post game in a meaningful way.

Donovan just not giving a **** on defense is infinitely worse though.
 
stitches said:
I just watched the presser. IMO it(the quote about him wanting in NY) doesn't sound as bad in the full context of the quote as it reads in the few media titles I've seen. That's one thing you absolutely need to give to Mitchell... he's incredibly media savvy. One might say elite.
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He did say he was extremely close to going to New York and knows more about the situation than most.
 
Mitchell did a podcast episode with Woj. It just came out this morning. He said it is easy for Ainge to look at the outside-in and get his own perception but it was just Ainge’s assumption after being around the team for 6 months that they didn’t believe in each other. He said that’s not fair to say after 6 months. Seems to be a slight dig at Ainge.

He also said Coach Hardy was at his house in Connecticut when Rudy was traded. He said they were talking about ways they could make it work.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Mitchell did a podcast episode with Woj. It just came out this morning. He said it is easy for Ainge to look at the outside-in and get his own perception but it was just Ainge’s assumption after being around the team for 6 months that they didn’t believe in each other. He said that’s not fair to say after 6 months. Seems to be a slight dig at Ainge.

He also said Coach Hardy was at his house in Connecticut when Rudy was traded. He said they were talking about ways they could make it work.
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Did Donovan miss when the team collapsed in the playoffs and Quinn Snyder stepped down as head coach?
 
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