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Not wise for an 18 year old to take a year off basketball (2023-14) to preserve his draft status. His agent knew his brand had peaked and if he crapped out in college ball his stock would fall. Good short term, bad long term strategy.

A little. But he is so ball dominant, if you look at turnovers per touch, I bet it is not bad. A good metric would be TO per team possession while he is on the floor.

Exum made a strategic mistake by prioritizing preservation of his draft status over development when he was a kid. Wrong trajectory.

Not to mention up to 3 rookies

If the trade is about KO to me it means they think they have a better shot at his next deal if he is already on the team. Because they could have him in free agency and they are going nowhere this year.

Fair point. When you get to the point where one party insists that "want" equals "prefer" we are debating irrefutable facts about language and it is time to move on. Thanks for the prompt, my life partner is calling, ;-)

he said he knows but cannot share

So from my agreement that we "want" 2024 picks, you logically conclude that we "prefer/ target/ favor/ prioritize" 2024 picks. Similarly, let's say I want a chocolate bar. From this you would obviously conclude that I prefer chocolate bars to ice cream. And I would give up a quart of ice...

Point out where I argued that we didn’t want 2024 picks. Good luck, lol. I’m not going to re litigate because it is clear that you are being deliberately obtuse after your argument has been dismantled.

thanks

@One Brow Is it the 3rd week of Jan yet? ;-).

No doubt. It just seems to me that they got them with some sensible deals.

Been through this before but I'll give it one more try..... Were there better offers that would have helped the team more than the one Danny accepted? I tend to think Danny knows more than I do about this so I'd say that it is highly unlikely that he had a bias so strong for 2024 draft that he...

You have many embedded assumptions in your argument (Simone is young, he has a lot of upside, Simone is going to get a reasonable contract that would be in the Jazz's best interest to match, other teams made better offers for Simone that they rejected, etc.) Pointing out the fact that an...

You said that the 384th youngest player in the league is "young" (71% of the league is younger). I did not say he was old, you (incredibly) said he was young.

Does he have an opinion on whether or not Simone is young?

Two useful players? .......Korkmaz was waived. .......McDermott was salary filler. About 5 ppg this year. Questionable whether he will be in the rotation. The Jazz got more for Simone than the Pacers got for Hield.

The average age of an NBA player is 26, Simone is 28. The Jazz investing significant cap space for a low rotation piece into his 30s does not match our timeline.

It is not sarcasm. Your entire argument is that the Jazz chose a far inferior deal due to their irrational desire for precisely the kinds of picks they got, that the late firstish were not coincidental and merely the best they could get, but they are specifically targeted. These are far...

OKC trades Mann, choosing Simone over Hayward, please let's be realistic I'd love moving Simone for Grimes, but let's be realistic Hard pass on Springer, he'd destroy spacing