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Here are the third year stats: Donovan Mitchell: 24.0 PPG, 4.3 APG, 4.4 RPG, 1.0 SPG, on the 45% - 37% - 86% shooting. Keyonte (so far): 22.9 PPG, 6.8 APG, 4.0 RPG, 0.9 SPG, on the 44% - 34% - 91% shooting. And Mitchell's stats declined after the hot start, while Keyonte keeps improving...

What stands out to me the most about George this season is that he dramatically improved his ability to read the court and make right decisions. No more aimless stationary dribbling in the midcourt trying to read the defense, no more hesitation on his offensive drives, much improved movements on...

I disagree. This season I often see him Keyonte doing something positive on defense and I did not see it last year. He also stopped complaining and pouting after the failed offensive posession: instead he busts his tail to get back on defense. Key's improvement on the defensive side this year...

It's not that simple. You want to teach your young players to recognize, produce and take good shots and avoid bad ones. That is what the Jazz are doing now. Ace was pushed to manufacture tons of bad offense at Rutgers and it really stunted his development.

Ace is the 3rd in FG attempts for the season after Keyonte and Lauri, and the 6th among the rookies in the last 10 games. And the amount of his touches and shots is constantly increasing: in the last 3 games Ace averaged 13 shots (that was the rate of Keyonte's FGA last season). The Jazz are...

Eh, lets worry about the Jazz pick after the All Star break. Now is the time to celebrate the growth and pure awesomeness of Kessler, Lauri, and Keyonte.

Nah, the win was personally delivered to the Jazz by Morant and his hero ball throughout the game but, especially, in the 4th. What a selfish and dumb player. And I don't think it would be easy for Memphis to pass him to someone else.

Ace is our great tank commander. We don't need to import Cody from the G League, we have Cody at home.

Keyonte was +7 in 18 minutes and the Jazz went -10 in 6 minutes when he was off the floor.

Keyonte is busting his tail on defense: boxing out, swooping in for steals, contesting the drives... Good to see.

Keyonte is carrying this team on offense on his huge shoulders.

Morant is playing real dumb: bad shots, reckless passes... It must be so frustrating to have him on your team.

Well, if they were good shooters they would be All Stars. The same would be true for Keyonte if he could defend like the Thompsons or Daniels. All of these players have major strengths and deep flaws. And all of them are still young and developing.

But Utah also has great outdoors. There are enough players drawn to that, like Lauri. All OKC had to work with was a brand-new franchise, a minor city in the middle of nowhere and...Oklahoma.

But that is the Jazz who turned themselves into the NBA farm team. The Thunder are in a similarly small and undesirable market but they managed to become a consistent powerhouse.

Mathurin, Murphy, Kessler, Clingan, Edey, and Fears have, probably, an equally strong claim to be on this list.

Everyone can always find 1-2 names to disagree with for any list. But looking at most of the guys in the 20s on that list -Sarr, Giddy, Ausar Thompson, Suggs, Dyson Daniels - I don't think that their teams would trade them for Keyonte. Keyonte is good but there are like 30-35% of the NBA who are...

Unfortunately for Walker, his value to other teams markedly declined in the last 12 months. The league is suddenly chock full of good young centers. Edey, Clingan, Ware, Missi, Queen, Kalkbrenner... And what's worse, many of these centers ended up playing for bad teams with a lot of cap...

The Pacers are much better than they record indicates: even with the players they have healthy right now they are clearly better than all tanking and struggling teams. Indiana went 5-5 in the last 10 games because they easily defeated each bad team they faced (Charlotte, Chicago twice...

This. Taylor is not a smart player. He is not a skilled player. He is not an athletically gifted player. So what is his special thing that he and coaches can build upon? Hendricks is tall but that's about it. And there are many tall guys who have been playing organized basketball since middle...