Potential Trade Targets

[Handlogten's Heros]

I like Fisher a lot... sometimes I wonder if he gets more stale info than the other rumor mongers. I think he usually gives it straight though whereas the other rumor mongers seem to protect relationships a bit more.

 

[KqWIN]

I like Fisher a lot... sometimes I wonder if he gets more stale info than the other rumor mongers. I think he usually gives it straight though whereas the other rumor mongers seem to protect relationships a bit more.

I actually have the opposite impression of him. I think his standard of reporting a rumor is lower than others, and that's why he's able to produce so many and sometimes that allows him to be on the cutting edge. He's not 100% kind of reporter like Shams and Woj, but I can't recall a reason to think his info is stale.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I actually have the opposite impression of him. I think his standard of reporting a rumor is lower than others, and that's why he's able to produce so many and sometimes that allows him to be on the cutting edge. He's not 100% kind of reporter like Shams and Woj, but I can't recall a reason to think his info is stale.

I don't think this is wrong. I just think the stuff he gets sometimes might be from lower rung nba personnel that may not be in on the current convos. Really have no specific examples of this. I think some nba folks come to shams and woj whereas Jake might have to do more calling around... so it may have been a week or two since he talked with someone from a particular team but like you said... his standards are lower so he will report it in an article. There have just been a couple times I think the info might be dated.

It sounds like he has talked with Jazz folks recently as he threw a lot out in his article.

I also just like him. He seems super quirky and has a nerdy dry sense of humor I find kinda refreshing.

 

[Flc]

Him and his brother. Don’t even get me started with James Hansen either.

I would like you to get started. We demand your TED Talk on the Hoops Nerd. Give the people what they want, Huge.

 

[Elizah Huge]

I like Fisher a lot... sometimes I wonder if he gets more stale info than the other rumor mongers. I think he usually gives it straight though whereas the other rumor mongers seem to protect relationships a bit more.

I don’t know about that. He was all over Collins to Utah last year where as I don’t think it was being reported by anyone else much.

 

[Elizah Huge]

I also feel like Shams and Woj just have the big name stuff when it is close or was close.

 

[framer]

I don't think the Jazz are in on just dumping Collins. If we are sending him to Detroit, maybe ask for Monte Morris plus expirings.

 

[gomretat]

I say we trade for Sam Merrill.

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[KqWIN]

I like Collins, and he's playing much better, but the Jazz should leap at the opportunity to redirect him to DET if it's available. If we never planned on being a PnR team, we never should have gone after Collins in the first place.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I don’t know about that. He was all over Collins to Utah last year where as I don’t think it was being reported by anyone else much.

Sounds like I might be wrong. Happy to adjust my thoughts on him.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I like Collins, and he's playing much better, but the Jazz should leap at the opportunity to redirect him to DET if it's available. If we never planned on being a PnR team, we never should have gone after Collins in the first place.

I agree. I do struggle to see a good use of our cap space next summer after extending Lauri so I'm not dying to do it... and he's useful. I think we had more opportunity last summer to get something solid out of our space.

With dumb teams having lots of space this summer... I think there will be some opportunities to offload players on the cheap.

 

[KqWIN]

I agree. I do struggle to see a good use of our cap space next summer after extending Lauri so I'm not dying to do it... and he's useful. I think we had more opportunity last summer to get something solid out of our space.

With dumb teams having lots of space this summer... I think there will be some opportunities to offload players on the cheap.

Yeah, I don't have big expectations for cap space either....one of the reasons why I was ok with the Collins trade initially. But I think a better use of cap space can be as simple as re-signing KO. I know we could probably do that anyways, but it gives us more flexibility if we want to try doing anything else and KO is much more of a Hardy system player than Collins IMO. Collins is starting to play better and I think he will continue playing at this level, but I think we can rule out the scenario where taking a flier on Collins went extremely well and he's a big part of our future beyond his current. I think we're better off going with KO for the next couple of years and giving TH some minutes.