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Does it hurt or help the jazz to keep Jordan Clarkson?

vegas said:
It's interesting to contemplate if Lauri would thrive as the alpha. Some guys prefer to let somebody else take the focus and thrive in their own element. He strikes me as that type, but I could be wrong.
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If "alpha" means holding the ball a lot, breaking plays, dominating possessions and forcing shots, then Lauri isn't one and will never be one IMO. (These dudes are going extinct anyway as top dogs, the NBA game has changed. The description sounds more like a microwave scorer off the bench.)

But if "alpha" means that you play an efficient brand of basketball within the offense BUT can also carry the team in crunch time if need be, Markkanen has a chance to develop into that player IMO. He already has the first part down, now he just needs some additional weapons to unlock the second part - those moments when you need to bend the game into your will. IMO the most important factor is improving his ballhandling. To create scoring opportunities in crunch time, when ball movement often dies down, he needs to be better with the rock.
 
Clarkson is a great player as one of your main guys if you want to be a .500 team.

It's hard to argue he hurts Lauri since this is his best season ever. But Lauri needs a solid pick and roll guy to play with him, better defense, and shooting at pretty much every position to free things up. JC only adds shooting to that.

I am firmly in three trade him if we can get something good. For a meh return we should keep him for sure. No reason to trade him for a worse player or a late first only.
 
Ron Mexico said:
Clarkson is a great player as one of your main guys if you want to be a .500 team.

It's hard to argue he hurts Lauri since this is his best season ever. But Lauri needs a solid pick and roll guy to play with him, better defense, and shooting at pretty much every position to free things up. JC only adds shooting to that.

I am firmly in three trade him if we can get something good. For a meh return we should keep him for sure. No reason to trade him for a worse player or a late first only.
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Clarkson adds more than just shooting. He's become a good playmaker and he can get his shot off easily. That's important to pair next to Markkanen. He needs some kind of self creation balance next to him and I think Clarkson is developing that.

And Lauri has been "taking over" more. Clarkson is letting that happen too, he isn't in the way. Lauri can be THAT guy in stretches, but he isn't going to play like that every game all game. And he isn't going to be some high level playmaker for others when he's not doing that, he'll be a spacer/decoy.

Jazz also just have no other good scorers yet. After Clarkson it's Sexton or Beasley. Each are more flawed than Clarkson. Sexton more skilled/efficient, but Beasley is near elite at a valuable skillset. Just don't think we can afford to lose Clarkson.
 
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Saint Cy of JFC said:
Clarkson adds more than just shooting. He's become a good playmaker and he can get his shot off easily. That's important to pair next to Markkanen. He needs some kind of self creation balance next to him and I think Clarkson is developing that.
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He is a good scorer inside. He definitely can create his own shot. He's not terribly efficient most of the time. He doesn't create much for others. He's also on the wrong side of 30 now and is pretty inconsistent. We've seen his ups and downs a lot here. Plus he doesn't play defense.

But again I only want to trade him if we get a good trade for him. He is really good as a scorer especially when the offense is stale.
 
I think a lot of people still believe passing is the holy grail of basketball and iso is the devil. The game has evolved we need balance.
 
Agent#00 said:
I think a lot of people still believe passing is the holy grail of basketball and iso is the devil. The game has evolved we need balance.
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Nah I don't think anyone thinks that, both are great. But we need more ability to create for others on this roster especially with Lauri. We really only have Conley setting people up much and he's pretty close to done. It's rough having most of our other main guards have blinders on and can't/don't play defense. We need more balance
 
With how quickly JC resigned last time, I would assume that he’s got a pretty good relationship with the front office and ownership. If they’re not trading him, they must be VERY confident that they’ll be resigning him. I would assume there is probably some sort of handshake agreement in place already.
 
Eddie Zero said:
lol I hope that gets him benched. You cannot do that right when your front office is playing chicken with teams asking about him. his value just went down and they wont get as much if he publicly asks out
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Exactly. The timing is extremely awkward to come out with something like this.

To those saying it's all lies - we'll see. I have a feeling it's not.
 
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