2024-25 Trade Rumors Thread

[NUMBERICA]

I’m just glad we tanked our asses off to draft Cody Williams so we can worry about this question. Totally worth it.

 

[oldtimer]

I’m just glad we tanked our asses off to draft Cody Williams so we can worry about this question. Totally worth it.

cody williams should be 2 lessons. first, do not ever tank half a season go all in or all out. this compete hard half a season and then tank just is not smart. second, you have to pick the year you are going to tank hard. some draft classes just dont have great players. others have superstars. last year's draft was horrible in terms of generational prospects. 2025 and 2026 are much better draft classes. tank accordingly.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I’m just glad we tanked our asses off to draft Cody Williams so we can worry about this question. Totally worth it.

At some point I did mention if we should finish outside the bottom 10 to convey in a bad draft

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

cody williams should be 2 lessons. first, do not ever tank half a season go all in or all out. this compete hard half a season and then tank just is not smart. second, you have to pick the year you are going to tank hard. some draft classes just dont have great players. others have superstars. last year's draft was horrible in terms of generational prospects. 2025 and 2026 are much better draft classes. tank accordingly.

Let's at least give him another year before any declarations

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

At some point I did mention if we should finish outside the bottom 10 to convey in a bad draft

Meh. We had a shot at top 4 and we ended up falling two spots. We also had a shot to take McCain or Carter and took Williams. It happens. We likely end up sending OKC nothing and Cody has been a valiant tank commander.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Meh. We had a shot at top 4 and we ended up falling two spots. We also had a shot to take McCain or Carter and took Williams. It happens. We likely end up sending OKC nothing and Cody has been a valiant tank commander.

If you believe the reports the Jazz would have drafted Cody in the top 4

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If you believe the reports the Jazz would have drafted Cody in the top 4

I think they learned from their Taylor Hendricks comments to just pump their guys. IDK honestly. I think they were pretty sweet on Edey. I also think they’d have taken Castle/Shep

 

[jazznik]

At some point I did mention if we should finish outside the bottom 10 to convey in a bad draft

You post so much that at some point you mentioned every thing imaginable.

 

[The Jazz Wonderbra]

We really need to finish bottom 6 or 7 to feel really comfortable that we end up with a bottom 8 pick. I don't think it's a huge leap to think we could be better than that next year. It means we have to do more of this sitting players like this year, which I don't blame anyone if they don't like it.

Trying to get our pick back from OKC is shortsighted, but I get why people would want to do it.

Sure, it would be nice. But i don't see the need to target the pick return when it is in our control to keep it doing nothing.

If we suddenly picked up 2 all stars next to Lauri and Cooper Flagg then losing the pick means almost nothing.

 

[Jingled]

It’s partly why I’m so interested in what we do this deadline. The tank is going well this year… but we’ve managed it a lot. Not sure we want to do this much for another year and a half… so make a deal.

Locke says this is year 1 of 3 probably… if that’s the case just move Lauri this summer cuz what are we even doing here.

If the plan is that this is year 1 of a 3-year tank, then we really should have just traded Lauri last offseason when his value was so high.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

If the plan is that this is year 1 of a 3-year tank, then we really should have just traded Lauri last offseason when his value was so high.

That kind of "timeline" for a tank sounds like absolute BS, for reasons that have already been discussed here.

 

[KqWIN]

If the plan is that this is year 1 of a 3-year tank, then we really should have just traded Lauri last offseason when his value was so high.

The good news is that we have been able to tank just fine….but what was the point of Lauri being here exactly? We wasted a prime year of his career which sucks for him and we also slashed his trade value. The tank situation is good but it’s certainly come at a cost.

I think the FO had higher hopes for the young guys. If Key developed, Hendricks never got hurt, Cody was as good as they expect etc…..you might be one good draft pick away. So I guess the point of having Lauri here is just in case major internal development occurred and suddenly we’re kinda close. But that definitely hasn’t happened.

Tank has gone well, but certainly it’s come at the cost of other things going poorly. I think it’s very risky to keep Lauri in another tanking situation because if he has a repeat of this season he will be seen as a majorly negative contract. Might become the new Lavine.