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Trae Young is very available. Other than that... I'm not really sure what stars are actually truly available. My read on the market is that the teams who are losing in the playoffs are generally trying to add to their cores rather than by full-blown starting over, with only a couple exceptions among teams with players you probably won't want. Like, the Warriors would probably trade Draymond. Does that make any sense for Utah? To me, no.
We are already miserably bad on defense... Not sure adding Trae Young would be the solution to anything... Ice Trae chant would sound really cool in SLC though

Was really hoping for Dejounte Murray but that ship has sailed, I would assume?
 
Not necessarily specifics, but what kind of ballpark ideas?
I don't know, really. I'd think about, like, a No. 8 for Deni Avdija idea. I actually don't know if I'd predict any of these guys to be better than Deni Avdija was last year. Obviously some random draft dudes are going to pop, and maybe the Jazz just need the upside potential of a draft pick. But they also just need value and if the right guys aren't there at No. 8, I might sell over using it on a Dalton Knecht type.
 
Who are your favorite/influential NBA writers from 90's, 00's, 10s and currently?
90s: I was born in 1991, so limited. I was weirdly reading the newspaper with my breakfast cereal by the end of that, though... I was interested in sports and weather as a kid. So probably Steve Luhm? Honestly it's absolutely wild that I get to do that job now.

00s: John Hollinger and Dean Oliver, no doubt. I remember Hollinger's Pro Basketball Prospectus with Amare on the cover, carried that around in my backpack in HS. I was also reading a ton of baseball analytics stuff then, mostly Bill James and the Baseball Prospectus guys. (There are so many good BP writers.)

10s: Zach Lowe is obviously the guy who led the way in a ton of ways to really develop the style I steal from a lot, and I think for a time there he was the best sportswriter on the planet. But goodness, the whole blogosphere and internet was *popping* in the late 00s early 10s. Too many names to mention. Honestly some of my biggest influences then were a lot of my cowriters at SLCDunk and Salt City Hoops... Kris, Clark, Amar, Dan among them.

20s: As the good analytics guys have just been immediately hired, it's been harder to find the best stats stuff online, IMO. There are obviously exceptions. There's still a ton of great Xs and Os work as a I try to understand more of that side of the game... I'll give Slappin' Glass a significant shoutout here... their podcast with Will Hardy at the beginning of the year was super in depth. But generally coaching-focused writing is what I'm learning most from these days. I pay a ton of money for random subscriptions to stuff, though: Stein, Haberstroh, Tom Ziller, CleaningThe Glass, Synergy, PBPStats, so much more.

I'm forgetting to name a gazillion folks here
 
90s: I was born in 1991, so limited. I was weirdly reading the newspaper with my breakfast cereal by the end of that, though... I was interested in sports and weather as a kid. So probably Steve Luhm? Honestly it's absolutely wild that I get to do that job now.

00s: John Hollinger and Dean Oliver, no doubt. I remember Hollinger's Pro Basketball Prospectus with Amare on the cover, carried that around in my backpack in HS. I was also reading a ton of baseball analytics stuff then, mostly Bill James and the Baseball Prospectus guys. (There are so many good BP writers.)

10s: Zach Lowe is obviously the guy who led the way in a ton of ways to really develop the style I steal from a lot, and I think for a time there he was the best sportswriter on the planet. But goodness, the whole blogosphere and internet was *popping* in the late 00s early 10s. Too many names to mention. Honestly some of my biggest influences then were a lot of my cowriters at SLCDunk and Salt City Hoops... Kris, Clark, Amar, Dan among them.

20s: As the good analytics guys have just been immediately hired, it's been harder to find the best stats stuff online, IMO. There are obviously exceptions. There's still a ton of great Xs and Os work as a I try to understand more of that side of the game... I'll give Slappin' Glass a significant shoutout here... their podcast with Will Hardy at the beginning of the year was super in depth. But generally coaching-focused writing is what I'm learning most from these days. I pay a ton of money for random subscriptions to stuff, though: Stein, Haberstroh, Tom Ziller, CleaningThe Glass, Synergy, PBPStats, so much more.

I'm forgetting to name a gazillion folks here
Great stuff, thanks. John Hollinger is a personal favorite.
 
We are already miserably bad on defense... Not sure adding Trae Young would be the solution to anything... Ice Trae chant would sound really cool in SLC though

Was really hoping for Dejounte Murray but that ship has sailed, I would assume?

man i love Dejounte Murray
 
Danny strongly indicated that we will not roll to TC with six 0-1 year guys with his "Plan A, B and C" comment.

How would you rank these scenarios in likeliness:
1) Package picks to trade up in 2024
2) Trade out of 2024 (with 1 or more of the 3 picks) taking back future picks
3) Use 2024 picks to trade for players to improve the roster now
4) Some other option that is more likely?
 
What kind of internal urgency is there to make the playoffs (FO and ownership)? Are the Jazz Ok with being a lottery team for the next year, two years, three years, etc?
 
Ainge's comments about not wanting six nineteen year olds in training camp. Was that a signal we are trading for a vet or vets or we are drafting older players?
 
Danny strongly indicated that we will not roll to TC with six 0-1 year guys with his "Plan A, B and C" comment.

How would you rank these scenarios in likeliness:
1) Package picks to trade up in 2024
2) Trade out of 2024 (with 1 or more of the 3 picks) taking back future picks
3) Use 2024 picks to trade for players to improve the roster now
4) Some other option that is more likely?

The other way to take his comment was that we would focus on drafting older/more ready players
 
Ainge's comments about not wanting six nineteen year olds in training camp. Was that a signal we are trading for a vet or vets or we are drafting older players?
I really think the whole point is that you can only develop so many young players and so we don't want to over extend our ability to develop guys properly. At least that's where I think he was coming from.
 
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