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Lauri Markkanen Hype & Appreciation Thread

underdog said:
Well, some people even on this board say we should trade him and build from there.
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Even if the plan is to trade him the jazz should extend him first.

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underdog said:
There will undoubtedly be debate about whether we should extend Lauri or not this summer. I hope we can extend him. Because it’s so damn hard to find a player of his caliber with draft picks we would get for him.


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The worst thing Jazz could do, would trade him to OKC, bc they are not going to get Chet iany imaginable package. Their core with addition of Lauri would seal their decade of dynasty. For sure, they are going to add another pieces some point, but there's no many such ideal bigs on market for them, than Lauri is.
 
Step-Back Lauri said:
The worst thing Jazz could do, would trade him to OKC, bc they are not going to get Chet iany imaginable package. Their core with addition of Lauri would seal their decade of dynasty. For sure, they are going to add another pieces some point, but there's no many such ideal bigs on market for them, than Lauri is.
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Utah Jazz Pros and Cons of Extending F Lauri Markkanen

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underdog said:
Well, some people even on this board say we should trade him and build from there.
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There is logic in trading him. He may not fit our time line and keeping him may waste his career and by the time the young guys are ready to go he could be slowing down. So it’s possible we could benefit more by trading him. I’m not opposed to extending him but there’s risk either way you go.
 
Also keeping him does us no good in building a contender if we don’t get a #1. I’m not sold on what we have to this point in achieving this but trading Lauri could increase this. I view Lauri as a great #2 option.
 
It’s possible some just want a good team that makes the playoffs every year. This isn’t what I want. I want a team that will contend and possibly win a title. Since we made the finals we’ve made the west finals once and that’s only because the 8th seed beet the 1 seed and we played the 8th seed that went I think 7 games and then got swept by the spurs. I just don’t care for just making the playoffs with no hope for a title and never getting out of the second round. So with that said I’m good with trading him.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
You don't just give up a top 20 player when you have as many assets as the Jazz do.
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Like I said… I don’t give a **** about just making the playoffs. I will live through how ever many seasons it takes till we are primed for a title run. Will Lauri be this good when that time comes. This is going to take 5-7 years. At that time how many years does he have at this level?
 
Pretty substantial jump so far this season. Could potentially be sustainable near the 30 point mark on this team. Fun to watch. And man is he playing at the top of his game. Can't wait to see what he does on his next team in Februrary!! :D


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LogGrad98 said:
Pretty substantial jump so far this season. Could potentially be sustainable near the 30 point mark on this team. Fun to watch. And man is he playing at the top of his game. Can't wait to see what he does on his next team in Februrary!! :D


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Wowsers.
Gotta love that 50/40/90 he is putting up. and 40% and 10 threes per game? Hells ya.
Look at the free throw attempts. He is killing it.
 
fishonjazz said:
Wowsers.
Gotta love that 50/40/90 he is putting up. and 40% and 10 threes per game? Hells ya.
Look at the free throw attempts. He is killing it.
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Efficiency is off the charts and his D is improved as well and importantly - assists. He’s always been limited by his lack of creating opportunities for others and adding that to efficiency has taken him to the next level.
 
Lauri has also (finally) improved his ballhandling. He dribbles lower now, with more purpose, and seems to be much better at keeping his body between the ball and the defender.

His main problem used to be the play where he'd make a wild, blind pivot turn and crash straight into a waiting help defender. Haven't seen a single one of those this season.
 
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Saint Cy of JFC said:
You don't just give up a top 20 player when you have as many assets as the Jazz do.
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They don’t have that many (tradable draft) assets at this point.

I wouldn’t trade Lauri for rubbish but wouldn’t be Gollum about it. It’s quite unlikely he’ll be here for a title run one way or another.

Lauri is a really good player having a great year so far. Given where we are and need to be it makes more sense to parlay that into a trade than to continue to sit on him.

Not fun using this space to have this discussion. Lauri’s awesome.
 
NUMBERICA said:
They don’t have that many (tradable draft) assets at this point.
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Just to elaborate:
-we can’t trade swaps directly
-for comparison, we had ~9 1sts from other teams in 2023, we now have ~4
-Lauri’s impact on winning is at this stage very possibly the difference between keeping a *TOP-8* pick or not which is worth calculating into the value, IMO.

We have enough assets for one big trade before we’re back to trading our own picks which would be incredibly irresponsible.
 
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