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Jaren Jackson Jr. traded to the Jazz

Flc said:
When we have our first at the end of the year, I want you to make a public apology thread with lessons that you’ve learned.
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He will have to get in line. Me first!
I would LOVE to have to make that thread.
 
Domino said:
I’m way behind on this thread because I was golfing but this is just stupid comment his biggest weakness is defense and JJJ can cover that up and if you compare his third year stats to any of the best guards in the league right now they are very very similar


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We've been through this before with a much better defensive player than JJJ. I think in today's league if the PG will be your guy, you need that guy to be truly special. I guess he can still get there, but I won't believe it until I see it. Plus, he still needs to get better on defence.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
3rd or 4th option? You really think he's coming to Utah with that mindset? He probably thinks he's finally getting his own team.



JJJ has only ever played a ball-stopping, backing-down-from-the-perimeter brand of basketball, with occasional wide open 3's sprinkled in.

If Hardy can get him to buy in to a more modern approach, that's great. But he never had a problem like that with Lauri, who came in with all guns blazing.
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JJJ is similar to Myles Turner in the sense that they both need to play next to a premium playmaker who can hold them in check. Or they could easily tank your offense. Numbers don't lie with their negative offensive metrics. Textbook example of the idea of an player being way better than the actual player himself.
 
bordelais7 said:
Jazz are going to have to scramble to replace the Taylor Hendricks Vivint "comeback" commercials that air 2-3 times per commercial break.
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Well I guess you can chalk up a brief bordelais resurrection to the list of acquisitions in the Memphis trade.
 
So with JJJ, Laurie, Kessler, I guess if they got top 2-3 and he's available, they probably ain't taking Boozer. and the consensus #4 is a big too
 
infection said:
That's the problem, though. The assumption is that those at the top are to have superior reasoning and better prognosticating power. When things change it's always that "well X happened and nobody could have predicted X." That's absolutely true and I don't think any of us would argue that. However, there are a whole host of things beyond X, and if it's not X, there's also small possibilities of Q, R, S, and also Y and Z happening. It's not certain, or even likely, that any one of them individually will happen. However, what is nearly certain is that one of them happening has a high enough likelihood that a general strategy around it factors into the equation, so you don't get caught with your dick in your hand saying "nobody could have ever predicted this."

You can't predict the unpredictable. But you can absolutely bank on the presence of a variable that will be unpredictable.
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I 100% think the Jazz were going to throw a contract at an RFA this offseason. We have talked about who that could have been. Instead they got a shot at JJJ who is probably better than anyone they could have got in Free agency.

Now they have that they resign Kessler and go over the cap, which they said was the original plan. I think if they knew they were getting JJJ ther would have handled Kessler differently.
 
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