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Vecenie basically laughed off the idea that Ace could be ROTY a few days ago

I would be pretty doubtful of anyone other than Flagg winning RotY unless Flagg misses 18+ games this year.

Kon, Tre, Ace are definitely the favorites for RotY if Flagg misses 18+ games though. The other guys just don't have much opportunity. Topic, Harper, and VJ are all on teams trying to win now while Fears, Demin, and Maluach are extremely raw. Maybe CMB has an outside chance?
 
The league has gotten so long and athletic. It’s like everyone outside of 1s is 6’8” with a plus wingspan. Cody had an advantage in college, but he’s just another guy out there now. Small guards are becoming an endangered species.

Houston’s 2-4 was KD, Eason, Jabari. Edit: I got this wrong. Houston started Sheppard and Thompson in the backcourt, then subbed in Eason.
Portland is going to be similar with Camara, Grant, Avdija.

Jazz are going to be big with Ace, Lauri, Taylor.
 
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I’m just blown away by Ace. He’s the goods.

Also, I love how the vets the Jazz brought in are happy to support our young guys.
Ya I saw Nurk pass up a really good open shot to pass to one of the young guys.
 
Deadline to extend Walker is the 20th. It doesn't look like it'll happen.


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If the jazz trade kessler then they better trade Lauri too. I mean if we want lauri to be a big contributor to winning in his prime/timeline then it makes no sense to trade away all the players that would be big contributors to winning while Lauri is in his prime/timeline.

Lauri, Kessler, Sexton, Collins, and some breakout young guys could potentially make some noise in the league.
Lauri and some breakout young guys, not so much.

I guess the jazz could always make trades to acquire good vets and use free agency to acquire good vets in a couple years but this rebuild and hanging on to Lauri and Lauri alone seems nonsensical.
 
This **** is stupid. Trade him or extend him. Now.
They say "flexibility, optionality, cap space". I hear "indecisive, scared, no plan".

Its just kind of weird. They had to know approx what the price was. We know they were offered the "Mark Williams Package" plus. If you didn't want to pay the man then the time to move him was then.

If new management didn't believe then move him over the summer. It just isn't this hard.
 
I think Brice is being a bit over-featured during preseason with Lauri and Flip out of the lineup. I think he's probably an 18 ppg guy, playing as a 6th man when we have a full team. He's at 25 ppg in these first two games.
 
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