Wemby. and this question will sound so ****ing funny in five years that it’ll be unbelievable.
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Id go Luka 100%.
I'll take the guaranteed all time great over theoretical. This Jazz team plus Luka wins rings now.
Especially when you consider all the picks we still have to make a move for other players to fit in. I'll sacrifice a future possible championship level player for championships now. Even if Wemby is a generational player, who knows if we even retain him like LeBron and Cleveland. Wemby could also end up not great for a bunch of reasons like health.
Idk how the retaining part factors in because retaining Luka would be harder, but yeah a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
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Plus at least 7 years of team control… Luka is already on the FA clock. I also think the way Luka plays reminds me of Harden… and I think it wouldnt be much fun to watch.
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Retention is a huge bonus over Luka.
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I think the way Luka plays it will be hard to win a title. He’s super duper high level… but he needs to embrace a more team oriented style and he’s yet to do it.
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I don't agree with this at all. I think if you paired Luka with someone as good as Lauri, that would be a championship contender.
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Doesn't he get like hella assists? Every time I watch dallas play he certainly has the ball a lot but he also makes lots of great passes to open teammates (due to him getting doubled all the time) who frequently miss the open shot. He seems to be a very very willing passer to me. I rarely see him force a shot when he is doubled and has an open teammate available. I think he is much more team oriented than say a player like jordan clarkson.
Another interesting question might be if we get a top 4 pick would we trade it for the 2 top 10 picks Orlando will have? Of course it will depend on what the actual pick number would be, but theoretically if ours was 3 or 4, we might be able to trade it for 5 AND 8.
It would be really hard to pass up on a Luka for Wemby trade. I do have concerns with how ball dominant Luka is but the odds of Wemby being a better player than Luka are probably pretty low. Luka is already on his way to being an all time great from a production standpoint. You have to win though to get into that top 10 to 20 of all time but he is also still only 24 so he has plenty of time to get there.
He is a very good passer but for a lot of players they need to have the opportunity to dribble and create for themselves and others to really get going and Luka can by so ball dominant at times that he takes most of the clock and his teammates never really get into a rhythm.