Trade ideas

[Park Bites]

I don't get all the love for Giddy. Sure he would instantly become the best passer on the Jazz but we need 3 things, Passing, Shooting, and Defense. Giddly only brings 1 of these. I have watched enough OKC games this year to know Giddy IS NOT a good defender. I have seen plays he doesn't even really try.

I agree the Houston pick is the crown jewel. Getting our pick back might be good.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If only you could hang banners and hold parades for squeezing a deal.

Oh man I just got a great dumb idea. We throw a “Draft Asset Treasure Chest Championship” parade and make it a dumb publicity stunt.

 

[Ron Mexico]

If we trade Lauri and go scorched Earth obviously we are losing for a few years at best. When we finally get lucky and land a player of his quality to build around is everyone cool cheering for Las Vegas Jazz?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If we trade Lauri and go scorched Earth obviously we are losing for a few years at best. When we finally get lucky and land a player of his quality to build around is everyone cool cheering for Las Vegas Jazz?

It would suck and attendance would suffer but the whole narrative that the team can't handle losing situations or it will move is just not it. We could suck and it would be like what Houston or Detroit has going right now or it could be like OKC. If there are exciting prospects and hope the fans will still show up. Team ain't going nowhere.

Not saying we should do it... but the team having to move isn't a reason to not do it. I heard fans sell this nonsense when it came to luxury tax and the Millers too.

 

[Park Bites]

To be honest I came into last year not caring if the Jazz won or lost. I was not emotionally invested. Then they out performed and I began rooting for wins. Then they traded made the trades and I was rooting for loses.

I came into this year hoping for the playoffs and now I want losses.

Markkanen is one of my favorite players in a long time. But if it would help secure a better future I think I would trade him.

Back to the emotional Rollercoaster.

 

[Conl3y2Rudy]

Sexton is exactly the guy you described and he sucks.

Wanting to win and getting mad when you don't isn't enough in the NBA.

Getting mad when you lose and being chippy on the court are two different things. I agree, Sexton sucks. I'd love having a few guys like Sochan to play along side Lauri.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Clarkson and the Jazz deserve to part with each other. Let him go be a flamethrower off the bench for a contender, and let the Jazz develop without watching him hoist 20 pointless shots a game.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Clarkson and the Jazz deserve to part with each other. Let him go be a flamethrower off the bench for a contender, and let the Jazz develop without watching him hoist 20 pointless shots a game.

I felt this way last season and still do. He is really great at a specific role. Which is providing tunnel vision scoring off the bench when no one else can. He's creative and finds ways to score. He also seems like a solid human, from the little I know. But he doesn't fit here anymore. A team like Boston with no bench and championship aspirations, he's a god.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I felt this way last season and still do. He is really great at a specific role. Which is providing tunnel vision scoring off the bench when no one else can. He's creative and finds ways to score. He also seems like a solid human, from the little I know. But he doesn't fit here anymore. A team like Boston with no bench and championship aspirations, he's a god.

Felt like last year he made some progress making simple reads like slinging it to the corner on drives.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

I just looked at Clarkson's ast/to ratio for his career. It basically doesn't change year by year. It's a little high right now, but I'm pretty sure it will fall right along his career numbers of about 1.4. Last year and this year he is being asked to playmaker more and so consequently his assists are at a career high, but the turnovers follow to keep him at his career ast/to ratio. Basically, the more we ask Clarkson to pass, the more he's going to turn it over.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Basically, the more we ask Clarkson to pass, the more he's going to turn it over.

Tbf, that's probably true of any player.

Clarkson is clearly not a fit or good for this Jazz team right now and should be shipped out, regardless.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Tbf, that's probably true of any player.

Clarkson is clearly not a fit or good for this Jazz team right now and should be shipped out, regardless.

Yeah, I just went and looked at the AST/TO ratio of our whole team, and while some of our players have a little more fluctuation year to year, they mostly stay about the same.