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????? The Jazz's swap is a one way swap, the Wolves cannot swap with the Jazz.

The issue also becomes again what's the point of doing any of this as Ace and the rest of the young players are years away (Keyonte probably is good enough to play semi-real postseason minutes? Maybe not high level minutes but some) and the Jazz don't have the assets to get players around Lauri.

Play over whom, lol. It's not like Svi is some world beater that replacing him with Brice would make the team worse. You have to just stop playing Lauri, Keyonte, and Walker (as those are the three guys providing everything so far) and all three of them would be furious about this at this...

The Jazz had the opportunity to be good though not great long-term the first season after trading Mitchell and Gobert, but they decided against that and now have to tank as their young guys and picks have minimal value. They are probably trading Lauri to the Spurs between December 15th and the...

fwiw, the Wizards get the best of their pick and the Suns pick and then the Wizards send the Grizzlies the lesser of those two picks (because the Suns made an incredibly stupid trade with the Magic where they traded the lesser of these two picks for three seconds and the Magic traded it for Bane).

I can't believe Dumars allowed Jeff Weaver to trade an unprotected 2026 pick for Derik Queen, what in the world. "Don't pull the thing out, unless you plan to bang" Jeff Weaver says as he takes out another mortgage on his home to gamble on startup IPOs.

Really hope Ace becomes a good defender and we can draft another good defender this year and we don't keep being like... this, lol.

We had already dropped to 17th in defense after the Suns game fwiw.

Game 1 was pretty encouraging for the goal of "don't finish 30th in defense," but it hasn't looked good the last two games, lol. Team looks like they could finish 8th or 10th in offense and 30th in defense if they didn't make trades.

This is the scheme for some reason! Hardy likes surrendering threes so guys can't get in the paint.

The Jazz are on pace to score 150 points against the Blazers' great defense. They are also on pace to surrender 150 points against the Blazers' terrible offense. Will the Jazz ever change their terrible defensive scheme? Check back in three years.

I don't know how I can evaluate Hendricks so far. He's obviously still years away, but he's also basically played no meaningful basketball.

Lauri will probably be traded on December 15th and then we'll be able to tank pretty easily.

I wish the Jazz had Dylan Harper, he's so good. Just an absurdly elite prospect.

Hendricks is weird to evaluate in that he's in year 3, but he's still so young and has played so little that hard to set expectations for how he should be playing. It's also the case that Hendricks is a PF and the clear 3rd PF on the roster so that makes it harder for him to find minutes. I...

Coward did not have a single game in college against good competition where he was anything but catastrophic and then immediately started playing great in the NBA, lol. Intangibles + tools + shooting wins again.

Hmm, I think with Collier and Cody out of the rotation and Lauri and Keyonte playing much better, we're probably like a 28-32 win team without fake injuries. Kind of stuck in a weird zone, need to either trade Lauri or trade for veteran guards.

I think Hendricks' body type is much more suited to offense than defense, but his skill level is not good enough yet to take advantage of it. It's weird how much weight he put on, I don't know what it's for unless he learns how to drive to the basket.

There are two different arguments here 1. Taylor Hendricks has never been actually good at defense at any point, he's only been hypothetically good at defense and him not translating the hypothetically good to actually good is concerning 2. He's played like 4 semi meaningful games in his entire...

Nurk is physically toast, he just can't jump in general?