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We finished 30th in defense in back to back seasons.

Neither can play the 3 at all and the Jazz should not really do this as they need Lauri to look good on defense to start the season to trade him. They're just going to play Hendricks 10 minutes a night the first 20-25 games until Lauri is moved.

Lauri is going to be a turnstile in 4 years and Ace is at least 4 years away and our 2026 pick may be further than 4 years away, this is not happening, we're trading him as soon as his trade value shows a pulse.

I don't think it matters, I just don't think Ace is even slightly close to a "do it all guard." Ace isn't even a guard, he's a forward with very limited guard skills.

No your salary cap is not, lol. Teams have gotten a lot of seconds from taking on big expiring money. Maybe you need to eat long-term money to get a first (like the Nets with MPJ), but that would have still been a better use of the cap space than whatever they were doing with their cap earlier.

Hendricks cannot play SF anymore almost certainly. He's like 240 pounds and coming off a broken leg. He'll probably just play very few minutes until Lauri is traded.

Ace does not pass or dribble at all.

The goal is to eat a bad contract at the trade deadline to allow a team to dodge the tax or an apron. The Mavs are almost certainly going to need to dump players to get out of the tax as they have the worst owners in the league so the move is going to be like to absorb Klay to get back some...

The Jazz did try to go Big Game Hunting. By offering Paul George a big contract and not even getting a meeting.

This depends heavily on 1. What we trade Lauri for during the season 2. Whether we extend Kessler before next offseason or wait until next offseason. Those two factors cause the projected cap space to change by more than $70m. If we keep Lauri and extend Kessler at like 5/175, we will have not...

We are absolutely not keeping Lauri, we're nowhere close and Lauri only has a tiny window left that he could hypothetically defend in the postseason.

The Jazz have gone 22-90 since they started their tank and I do wonder what's the worst like 200 or 300 game stretch in NBA history.

The Jazz could have taken on expiring contracts each year instead of doing Collins and Clarkson. Then they would start the offseason with cap space they could then use for a star trade or to take bad salary.

Cool, so the Jazz managed to trade him and Agbaji at the nadir of their value while missing the peak of Lauri's value in a three year time period that was all about trading guys for picks.

The Jazz could have... Just had cap space instead.

Still pretty unreal that the Jazz traded NAW for literally nothing though. NAW was really good for us and young and helped the team we were trying to make lose make back to back WCFs.

The league hates players that don't defend after Boston and OKC won the title. Everyone views the NBA as a weak link league now where your defense is only as good as your worst defender. (This is also extremely bad news for Keyonte and Sensabaugh and maybe bad for Filipowski as well, lol)

Lauri has to show a pulse on defense to start the year or he's going to have zero trade value based on what we've seen this year. Teams are reacting to OKC winning the title by completely deprioritizing bad defenders.

Overall, the Jazz spent $59m a year on Sexton, Collins, and Clarkson over the last three years in an attempt to trade them for picks and netted 0 picks.

1. He probably won't be mobile enough to defend in the postseason at 32, I would be pretty shocked if he was effective in a postseason setting at 32. 2. Yes, they could all be bad... And then we're even further away...