Highly doubt that.
I think its less about trade value and more about he will still go hard and not be offended by putting him in cuz he's just wants to play basketball. His effort will help close the gap and maybe a 30 point loss turns to 15 and looks less bad.
Do we even know Jensen is working with Lively? They hired Tyson Chandler as assistant coach....Alex Jensen’s coaching career will reportedly continue outside of Utah
Former University of Utah standout and Utah Jazz lead assistant coach Alex Jensen will continue his basketball coaching career with the Dallas Mavericks.sports.yahoo.com
Just to confirm that Jensen was not retained and then, a few months later in July accepted a job working for the Mavs where I would say he has been instrumental in helping develop Lively II as one of the top rookies from this year's draft.
Well the second article does have quotes from Gobert concerning his work with Jensen. But alas you are correct that it is only a supposition that Jensen is working with him.
you are working off such limited information, I'd encourage you to stop speculating. There are so many reasons why he might not have wanted the U of U job. He's been on a short list of NBA coaches for a couple of years now. Maybe he's not as interested in the college game and all the baggage that comes with it.
He's an alum and was an assistant coach there. I would think that would be his dream job. Ainge could have hired him when Quin left but didn't.
He also coached up Willie Reed in college and the GLeague. Mr. Reed went onto play a few seasons in the Association.
Watching the Mavs/Lakers game, no Kyrie and Exum looks like Kobe en fuego. Gotta wonder if a) Jensen had anything to do with the signing, and b) with the incredible transformation.
Dante was great.
