Are the Jazz going to trade Rudy?

[infection]

I’m not sure. But I think it’s closer to 1.8M over the tax based on what I’ve seen and my own math using capulator.

Yeah, you have capulator, but DL was able to throw our cap numbers into the formula they used for Udoka being top 10. What I'm trying to say is we're good and you don't need to worry.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I trust Dan’s math and it jives with my calcs. Sounds like we have to go to 14 contracts. If they waived NWG and signed Shaq I think I will stop complaining for 6 weeks.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Interesting. I really wonder what kind of move they are about to make. Everything does feel a bit weird.

 

[Eminence]

It's very obvious they didn't value Udoka that highly or they never would've traded down, there's no way to be that certain about other front offices. No idea why we'd put out that type of stuff now.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

It's very obvious they didn't value Udoka that highly or they never would've traded down, there's no way to be that certain about other front offices. No idea why we'd put out that type of stuff now.

Seems pretty plausible to me.

Analytics models overrate big men and the Jazz really like defensive minded bigs.

 

[Eminence]

Seems pretty plausible to me.

Analytics models overrate big men and the Jazz really like defensive minded bigs.

Him being ~7th or whatever on our board is believable, but the trade down in advance doesn't make any sense then, if there's a guy you're that high on likely to be available at 23rd you just take him and damn the consensus. Not drop and make it less likely to get him in exchange for minor assets.

 

[stitches]

Of course we gave them both player options too

 

[infection]

I trust Dan’s math and it jives with my calcs. Sounds like we have to go to 14 contracts. If they waived NWG and signed Shaq I think I will stop complaining for 6 weeks.

Pleasing me would be fairly easy this offseason. If we had even drafted Udoka, signed Shaq, and a vet center that would compete with Udoka, I'd have been fairly happy. We could have pocketed the difference.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Him being ~7th or whatever on our board is believable, but the trade down in advance doesn't make any sense then, if there's a guy you're that high on likely to be available at 23rd you just take him and damn the consensus. Not drop and make it less likely to get him in exchange for minor assets.

I mean, if they also valued a guy like Hughes very highly and trusted the intel, I dont see what's hard to believe. The Jazz are suppose to be a smart team in regards to this kind of intel because of Justin Zanick.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Interesting. I really wonder what kind of move they are about to make. Everything does feel a bit weird.

That’s what I think... it could be a nothing burger and then we are just strangely cheap... sometimes. Like once you are in the tax adding another minimum guy ain’t that big a deal. In for a penny in for a pound.

 

[Bodhi]

I mean, if they also valued a guy like Hughes very highly and trusted the intel, I dont see what's hard to believe. The Jazz are suppose to be a smart team in regards to this kind of intel because of Justin Zanick.

Huh? Eminence makes a really good point. Your reply doesn't.

So they valued the guy at 7, but traded back to the exact spot required to get him, knowing the exact way the draft would play out?

Kick *** narrative. It reminds me of another one, where no matter what happens, it was "gods plan". This god fella/gal sure has it figured out. Must have been in DL's frat at Baylor.

 

[infection]

That’s what I think... it could be a nothing burger and then we are just strangely cheap... sometimes. Like once you are in the tax adding another minimum guy ain’t that big a deal. In for a penny in for a pound.

I just don't know what that would be. If it feels weird, it's because the FO is dense. Either that or DL is trying to secure some second rounders to send to Chicago for Porter.