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Roster Building From Here - FA and Summer of 2023

Tremendous Upside said:
Lauri is a role player. HEAR ME OUT, HEAR ME OUT.

This season, his role is to be the main scoring threat (who still somehow takes only two shots more per 36 than Talen Horton-Tucker). He's doing a fine job. 9 to 5, lunch pail kinda guy. Happy to do whatever the team needs.

If we bring in a dude like Jaylen Brown who is obviously going to arrive with the expectation that he's the new #1 option, Lauri will go right back to being a 16ppg floor spacer. He won't complain. He's just gonna look at is as a new job description. No, he probably won't like it, but that's neither here nor there. He'll get right to work.

Nice guy, very good player, solid pro, absolutely zero alpha mentality
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Lauri also has never had a year where he’s been expected to be the guy until this year. I think he’s pretty clearly developed some alpha this year, I don’t think that goes away just because we trade for someone
 
Tremendous Upside said:
Lauri is a role player. HEAR ME OUT, HEAR ME OUT.

This season, his role is to be the main scoring threat (who still somehow takes only two shots more per 36 than Talen Horton-Tucker). He's doing a fine job. 9 to 5, lunch pail kinda guy. Happy to do whatever the team needs.

If we bring in a dude like Jaylen Brown who is obviously going to arrive with the expectation that he's the new #1 option, Lauri will go right back to being a 16ppg floor spacer. He won't complain. He's just gonna look at is as a new job description. No, he probably won't like it, but that's neither here nor there. He'll get right to work.

Nice guy, very good player, solid pro, absolutely zero alpha mentality.
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Agree to disagree. Just because you add a 25 point scorer like brown doesn't mean you can't have Lauri also average 25.
I mean just look at the Celtics for example.
 
Ujfanatic said:
How good do you think Lauri is? I’m surprised to be reading comments that his play should alter the Jazz timeline. Are people viewing him as a legit #1 option? Do you see him as someone who could be a top 10 player in the league?
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He is setting great numbers being most of the time helluva efficient. These last few weeks and possible playoffs will tell us more. This is the first time he is being doubled this much and having to carry his team. He is doing it with an average roster at best and so far looks he might be getting better in it too.

It is obvious he needs a bit more self creation in half-court offense and then he needs to get better with his passing skills. He has told he sees them lanes but still is figuring out to deliver them too. Coach H told also in some article Lauri will have some focus on his ball handling on becoming off-season. He is better with it this season he ever has been so we are optimistic it gets even better.

The shot selection is good and his off-ball threat is one of the best in the league. His athleticism works on both ends of the floor. He might become perennial all-nba. Is very coachable and seems to learn quickly whatever our coach has been asking of him. So far he has taken well the steps for increased responsibilities.

In short: in his first season with this kind of role he became someone from role player to a man in all-nba discussions. So for sure - he might become top 10 of the NBA. He is just entering into his prime now.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
Lauri is a role player. HEAR ME OUT, HEAR ME OUT.

This season, his role is to be the main scoring threat (who still somehow takes only two shots more per 36 than Talen Horton-Tucker). He's doing a fine job. 9 to 5, lunch pail kinda guy. Happy to do whatever the team needs.

If we bring in a dude like Jaylen Brown who is obviously going to arrive with the expectation that he's the new #1 option, Lauri will go right back to being a 16ppg floor spacer. He won't complain. He's just gonna look at is as a new job description. No, he probably won't like it, but that's neither here nor there. He'll get right to work.

Nice guy, very good player, solid pro, absolutely zero alpha mentality.
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Are you trolling
 
fishonjazz said:
Agree to disagree. Just because you add a 25 point scorer like brown doesn't mean you can't have Lauri also average 25.
I mean just look at the Celtics for example.
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It was more of an example of what I feel Lauri's mentality is like. Of course you can have several players putting up big scoring numbers. But that could still mean it's a Batman & Robin situation.

I'm surprised people are getting so defensive. What I said could just as well be seen as a compliment to Lauri. There's all these rumors of Brown not being happy in Boston because he wants "his own team", he wants to be the clear cut #1 option. Can you see Markkanen ever thinking along those lines, even if (as someone said) he's at least as good as Brown? Hell no.

I just happen to think that if we ever see a situation where we manage to bring in another star, Lauri will instinctively assume the second banana role. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that. Not everybody is the same. Not everybody has an alpha personality or leader attributes.

You see Jaylen Brown happily functioning as the 4th or 5th option on a team like last season's Cleveland? Yeah, thought so. Lauri had absolutely no problem with it.
 
Ujfanatic said:
How good do you think Lauri is? I’m surprised to be reading comments that his play should alter the Jazz timeline. Are people viewing him as a legit #1 option? Do you see him as someone who could be a top 10 player in the league?
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How many players in the NBA could drag a starting core of 2 rookies and THT into the playoffs? Honestly? I know that neither of the Laker "top 10 players" could do this, not today anyway. Nor Dame, nor apparently Luka, or ANT. That list is likely smaller than 10 players.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
Lauri is a role player. HEAR ME OUT, HEAR ME OUT.

This season, his role is to be the main scoring threat (who still somehow takes only two shots more per 36 than Talen Horton-Tucker). He's doing a fine job. 9 to 5, lunch pail kinda guy. Happy to do whatever the team needs.

If we bring in a dude like Jaylen Brown who is obviously going to arrive with the expectation that he's the new #1 option, Lauri will go right back to being a 16ppg floor spacer. He won't complain. He's just gonna look at is as a new job description. No, he probably won't like it, but that's neither here nor there. He'll get right to work.

Nice guy, very good player, solid pro, absolutely zero alpha mentality.
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Lauri’s become a beast this season. You think he will forget these skills, or his coach won’t allow him to use them if we get Jaylen Brown or whoever? I think the opposite will happen. Lauri is 25. He will probably get even better for the next 2-4 years. Players in the NBA play their best basketball when they are 27-29 years old.
 
Was Dirk a better “shot creator” than Lauri? I don’t exactly remember him going iso very often. He very much played like Lauri and was efficient and didn’t dominate (and kill) ball movement.

Seems to me that we have a top tier talent already. The issue is with the rest of the roster. A roster that starts KO, has the 2023 version of Rudy Gay playing significant mins instead of a 2010 like version, and a bunch of rookies that need more experience. Replace Gay with Jaden McDaniels and add just Desmond Bane and this team is a top 5 team in the league. This team has a solid core to build around.
 
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