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Better NBA career: Myles Turner or Trey Lyles?

Better NBA career

  • Lyles

    Votes: 15 60.0%

  • Turner

    Votes: 10 40.0%
  • Total voters
    25
  • Poll closed .
Turner is going to be a starter this year and many years to come. His path for accelerated development is wide open. Lyles should be our 3rd big, but he could potentially lose minutes to several players. He likely won't have an opportunity to be a Day 1 starter until his 4th year.

If Lyles was on the Pacers and Turner was on the Jazz it could very well be reversed, at least in the short-term. Long-term who knows, that is really a wild guess.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Don't get me wrong...I LOVE a 3-man rotation of Gobert, Favors and Lyles + a cheap vet (a la Withey) and a developing youngster ( perhaps one of the 2017 picks) as the 4th and 5th bigs.

Long-term (meaning once Lyles' rookie deal expires), I just don't think Jazz can afford to keep all 3, not if Hayward, Hood and Exum all get paid top dollar.

I think it's a given that Gobert, Favors and Gobert will likely command max contracts. Hood appears to be on AT LEAST the Harrison Barnes' path. Lyles might show enough potential to be regarded in the same way. Exum...who knows? Depends on how he comes back and how much he improves.
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There will soon come a time where not every above average player will command a max salary. This year every team could pay a max salary, next year 12 teams can, the year after that, the number will be lower still. It took exactly 1 year for most NBA teams to again hamstring themselves with the salary cap after the reset button was hit. This means that you sign contracts to have tradable pieces, and that sign and trades will come back in vougue.
 
King Cy said:
Turner is going to be a starter this year and many years to come. His path for accelerated development is wide open. Lyles should be our 3rd big, but he could potentially lose minutes to several players. He likely won't have an opportunity to be a Day 1 starter until his 4th year.

If Lyles was on the Pacers and Turner was on the Jazz it could very well be reversed, at least in the short-term. Long-term who knows, that is really a wild guess.
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Lyles will get plenty of burn this year. The Jazz are no longer forced to have one of Gobert and Favors on the floor at all times.
 
I think the ceiling of Turner is a center that can hit 3s and block 2.5 shots a game. So even if Lyles lives up to being a good modern stretch PF, Turner could be even a rarer specimen. Like Cy said, he is set up for a monster second year. The keys will be handed to him, and he will get much more burn than Lyles will.
 
Turner's Opponent percentage at the rim is 50.7% which is pretty pedestrian. He gets a lot of blocks weakside off of help defense. Jeff Withey defends the bucket straight up at 43.1%. Turner is long and efforts really hard, but has slow feet when playing on an island. Ultimately Lyles is going to have far superior footwork as both players' games mature. If he can do something with it both offensively and defensively he should be the more dynamic player at the same size. Lyles needs to learn to defend out to the three point line like Favors to be something really special.
 
Lyles us partying it up with LeBron tonight at the Yeezy concert. I didn't know they were friends.

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nateboz said:
Lyles us partying it up with LeBron tonight at the Yeezy concert. I didn't know they were friends.
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Awesome. We all know how Lebron likes teaming up with "friends" right? Superteam in Utah in a couple of years...book it.
 
Turner's D is overrated with respect to what we saw last season. Jury is still out on both-- can Lyles be a playmaker & not just a shooter?
 
Lyles plays for the jazz. Therefore Lyles will be better
 
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