Should the Jazz "Unleash" Collin Sexton?

[Handlogten's Heros]

He started 51 games....

The first year it was a priority to limit his minute and keep him healthy. Hardy coached Sexton into his most efficient offensive season by leaps and bounds. I think the relationship is fine. If we get a repeat of last year's handling this year, then you can complain. Until then, it's a progression that is progressing to more and more trust.

I think it's more on Danny to provide Hardy with a player or two to surround Sexton/Lauri that makes them make more sense as our two top options.

He started once JC got hurt... then as a starter was getting 28 minutes a game, when it was clear he deserved more. I don't think the relationship is strained but its just weird how minutes were managed. It may have been a JC thing so he gets a little slack but its also partly org's messaging around Collin that feeds into this potential lack of belief for some reason.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The Jazz had the worst defense in the league by a country mile, and Collins was the anchor of it. Now the Jazz are trying to trade Collins.

The Jazz played Keyonte, but didn't rotate in Hendricks, Brice or their 2-ways until the last 25 games.

Yeah, that's when they started to try to lose bud.

 

[gomretat]

I dont think it is a simple answer. Sexton is so ball dominant the more freedom he takes on offense the more everyone else stands around. If you unleash him, he better produce at a high level because the flow of any offense is much less when takes things into his own hands. In addition, if you unleash him, he needs to not freeze out Lauri as he has done on occasion.

 

[infection]

I don't know. I believe in Isaac more as a defensive wrecking ball than I do Taylor... but I think Hendricks will be a better offensive player. I also think you'll always be crossing your fingers he will stay healthy. It would be a good gamble but the cost this offseason to acquire him versus maybe last offseason will be worlds apart. I don't know that he's available.

Yeah I don’t know that I’d pursue him. I would have (and said we should have) multiple times in the past. Nobody wants to buy low, though. People only want to buy high or on the upswing.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

for his relationship with his coach, Sexton said Hardy has been just what he needed to take the next step.

"I talked to him yesterday, we had an off day, and he just told me he was going to continue to coach me hard, continue to push me to the best of my abilities," Sexton said. "That's the way I want to be coached. ... I feel like that's how I'm able to get the best out of myself. At the end of the day, I don't expect anyone to give me anything. I feel like I have to earn it and sometimes even take it. That's how I've always been wired."

Hardy's just glad it's been a mutually beneficial relationship.

"He's bought into what we're trying to do and he's gotten better," Hardy said. "He's somebody that has shown me that you don't need to listen to any of (the narratives) at all. You can just take people at face value for how they are when they get here and what they do when they're with our team. He's a big reason why we're playing well right now. His energy is infectious on both ends of the floor. He's a heck of a player and we're lucky to have him."

Sounds like such an awful relationship tbh

*sarcasm*

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Yeah I don’t know that I’d pursue him. I would have (and said we should have) multiple times in the past. Nobody wants to buy low, though. People only want to buy high or on the upswing.

LOL yup and I can imagine Orlando last year was like "if we can get his stock up we can sell high next year" fast forward to next year "we can trade Isaac... look at how good he played". The Dante Exum Principle.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Yeah I don’t know that I’d pursue him. I would have (and said we should have) multiple times in the past. Nobody wants to buy low, though. People only want to buy high or on the upswing.

He just had a bad playoffs, so I would consider buying at a midpoint.

 

[homeytennis]

LOL yup and I can imagine Orlando last year was like "if we can get his stock up we can sell high next year" fast forward to next year "we can trade Isaac... look at how good he played". The Dante Exum Principle.

DedEx is playing for a ring.

 

[Step-Back Lauri]

Is it crazy to think the Jazz are actually much better than any of us give them credit for? --


--It seems like we should be targeting more 2-way players (for lack of better term) and defenders.

-- It's not crazy at all, I agree.

-- And yes. We should start by targeting a trade on Deni Avdija. Young, up and coming two-way player with a ceiling of borderline all star and floor of a very good starter for the rest of his career, in good team.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

-- It's not crazy at all, I agree.

-- And yes. We should start by targeting a trade on Deni Avdija. Young, up and coming two-way player with a ceiling of borderline all star and floor of a very good starter for the rest of his career, in good team.

Why would the Wizards trade a borderline all-star (not that i agree with that assessment) they have locked up long-term on a team friendly deal? Things got to make sense.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Why would the Wizards trade a borderline all-star (not that i agree with that assessment) they have locked up long-term on a team friendly deal? Things got to make sense.

Wiz are 2 years away from being 2 years away. So they might move Deni as the utility of his low cap deal will be mostly wasted in Washington. They don't have urgency to do so though so they should wait out and get a big offer. I think they move Kuzma and keep Deni unless someone really ponies up for him.

 

[fishonjazz]

People are allowed to be wrong.

Strange response.
Why do you think he was being held back? Do you think the reason he was being held back the last few years will continue to be the reason to hold him back going forward?

These are great questions that are very related to the thread.

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