Whos career will you take in 5 years?
Game Thread Feb 10, 2025 08:30PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Los Angeles Lakers
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Whos career will you take in 5 years?
Shad
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Easily the worst game of the year. Nobody looked good and really showed how far we are from really competing. I don't even know how you can fix this honestly. We traded for John Collins for no reason. We signed Lauri for no reason. We extended Clarkson for no reason..... and for what? To slow devopment of young players and screw us from getting higher picks? Makes no sense
Jazz are essentially in a tie for 2nd worst record and we are somehow screwed from getting higher picks?
You are such a ****** poster because of this kind of nonsensical talk. It's one thing to be pessimistic, but at least have consistent pessimism that is based in facts.
Next year Clarkson/Sexton/Collins amount to 50+ million in expiring contracts. Stop being such a ****ing doomer.
AlaskanAssassin
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Serious question: What are we going to do with these expiring contracts? Seems like expiring contracts are more of an asset to teams that are one or two trades (for good players) away from being a contender.
Everything is based on luck at teh end of the day. You luck out and get Flagg and you can add a star quite easily to go with Lauri/Walker/Cooper.
Or if the Jazz want to go the tank longer route, they can take back a bad contract and get more assets.
K, then they should be paying him twice as much. John Collins is fine but we’ll be lucky to turn that cap move into any kind of draft asset at this stage.
HadAnEffectHere
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With what assets, lol.
Our picks other than the 2031 Suns and MAYBE the 2029 Cavs just kind of suck if we get Flagg (because then our future picks have little to no value). Our young players other than Kessler have really minimal value as well. Everyone other than Hendricks projects as a bench player or out of the league and Hendricks has a broken leg.
"Do you want one billion marginal assets for your star" is just a weird pitch.
Now the Negative Nanceys want to downplay our assets like we arent in the top 5 of draft assets in the NBA. Great/
HadAnEffectHere
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I mean, we bet on the Cavs imploding (no), the Lakers imploding (no), or the Wolves imploding by basically now (no) so all of these picks have pretty minimal value other than the Suns pick. That's why we traded away all of our (likely) Cavs pick for the one Suns pick.
Mitchell re-signing, Mobley and Edwards improving, and Luka being traded badly hurt the pick stockpile.
Im sure 4 years from now everything will be exactly as how it is now
HadAnEffectHere
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I mean, the issue is that enough time has passed that the picks are starting to come due and things would have to change like... Right now, lol.
If you're a team evaluating the Jazz's picks and prospects, how valuable do you view the Jazz's picks other than the 2031 Suns pick? How valuable do you view the prospects other than Kessler? Probably not much at all.