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I am not worried. I don’t think some humble pie would be bad for him either. Kid is talented as ****, huge, and is not in danger of lacking confidence.

I would temper slightly this with the caveat that if by some miracle the team is looking like an honest-to-goodness contender without Lauri and Walker, then you can (and should… probably) probably just roll with it and be happy.

Bless up, pups.

I think this is a terrific strategy right now.

This is what happens when the concept of “infinite growth” starts to reach its inevitable limit. That, and pointless inflation that predictably coincides with increasing market concentration of major firms. **** this fresh hell.

Anyone else pretty sure this is politically motivated? The blackest, most liberal major sports league in the US is suddenly under the gun (of a brazenly fascist regime that they widely oppose), but no one else? Speaking of betting, you can bet people involved in sports across the board are...

It doesn’t address the mechanics of the problem but, sure.

Yes it is. Team performance isn’t terribly volatile year to year, and it is easy to predict that the Jazz are on an upward trajectory. This is their last chance to get to the top of the draft unless something crazy happens. As or more importantly, the Jazz have to be terrible assure that they...

I think it’s basically an inevitability. If the Jazz don’t want to pay the max they need to trade him sooner than later. Preferably not to the Lakers but maybe.

The underlying issue with all of these cap space questions is that cap rules make it really important to spend to the salary floor. Teams with enough space will be looking for something to blow capspace on.

I hope you’re right, but the absence of information means very little. We had 0 evidence the Hayward situation would play out the way it did, and yet, it happened and was completely logical. Furthermore, Locke is a leaky faucet with information, and he basically leaked what the Jazz’s thinking...

Seriously, what’s the trade off? This is mostly winning and losing money as a zero sum, except for the ghoulish companies that profit off of the not-too-uncommon-scenario of people ruining their lives. I get that it makes games more fun, it also makes society more volatile and is way too strong...

If it’s basically impossible to tank (even after trading Lauri and Walker), then we better be competing for the 1 seed. The nightmare scenario is scrapping to make the play-in and coughing up a lottery pick to an already-emerging dynasty. A middling year this year will setup a middling decade.

I actually disagree. I think there is and should be a distinction between roster moves and in-game fraudulence (faking injuries/pulling good players in crunch time/drawing wack plays). I think Austin agrees because the Sexton/Clarkson/Collins moves were not trades made to win or preserve asset...

The answer to both problems is trading Walker if someone is willing to cough up a worthwhile package. Within the genius of such a plan (wherein the Jazz could throw a max offer at him this offseason if they wanted) lies it’s potential crippling weakness; trading an impending RFA that isn’t a...

Sports betting needs to be federally banned.

It’s not really, but at worst he’s worth keeping around as emergency depth/change of pace (if he is correspondingly cheap to keep).

If we **** this tank up cuz we got too excited about making the 7th seed we will forever be questioning what could’ve been had the Jazz done what everyone knows they have to do this year.

He’s going to be key down the stretch as the team goes into tanking overdrive after finishing the first month above .500.

Walker and Lauri up their value and the Jazz have options to cut the legs off if they don’t keep being Gollum about every trade return.