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Let’s first get back to the question of whether Sam Presti is elite or not. He turned a declining Serge Ibaka into Paul George. Then into Shai and owning the Clippers draft. Sounds like elite work, especially if you realize that that means he turned four draft picks in three years into four...

Yeah, let’s be sure we cough that up. They need the help. We don’t.

You’re the expert on that.

I’ll spell it out: WESTBROOK WAS A PRODUCT OF PRESTI. ADDITIONALLY, HE WAS A REACH IN THE ‘08 DRAFT. Whatever credit Westbrook gets is credit Presti gets.

How did Westbrook end up on the Thunder??? I am utterly confused, besides that this is apex contrarianism.

You don’t have to be bold to be good. Trading for PG when he didn’t say he’d re-sign was pretty bold, though. You can also afford to be bold when you amass so many draft assets. It is not advisable to neg on the executive who’s success is totally unrivaled in the modern era: -drafted three...

How did he get Oladipo and Sabonis?

How did the Thunder get Paul George?

Like KD walking? Like ownership dumping Harden?

With enough dice rolls you need almost no luck to hit.

This is why you grab unprotected picks and swaps whenever you can get them. You just do it. If the Pistons dumped out every draft asset they have unprotected for Lauri, you take that and run.

It is wild to me that people still assume we are deciding between getting the 1st or 7th pick, not the 7th pick or no pick. The Jazz have to start pulling some kind of ****.

Reevaluated? He has an injury that you can either repair and take a year off or cut out and be back on the court a few weeks later but NEVER GET THAT MENISCUS BACK. Sorry, I just hate that meniscus injuries are so down-played.

Especially since they could’ve just kept Halliburton who is better.

We can either: -pull shenanigans to throw games and keep the pick -trade Lauri to be organically bad and keep the pick -forfeit the pick and lose in the play in. I know which one of those I hate the most by a light year.

Those teams never had a chance to seriously contend because they couldn’t protect the rim at all, so I guess I’m right there with you. With how spread the game is now, it means that your center being a great defensive player is all the more important because 4s can’t help as much on that end as...

It just isn’t a musculoskeletal thing which is typically where the concern lies with giants and it is not a product of participating in athletics. It just isn’t in the same category.

He’s already done more than Oden. And he hasn’t had any major injuries yet.

Absolutely not. Half of the Jazz’s wins are very close wins (a nightmarish outcome so far and if it continues, which suggests this team is seriously not good but will still receive a worse draft slot than the best team in the league).

If the Jazz don’t get their **** together, this thread will be the most epic waste time in the history of Jazzfanz.