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Does Lauri Get Traded?

Does Lauri Get Dealt Before The Season Starts?


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We're signing someone who has the same value as Kessler?
I mean I would assume so on court since they are adding wins. I mean if Walkers contributions mean very little to draft positioning I assume we would not care at all if the vet was less than that. If we signed them to a 3-4 year deal I assume value would be close since Walker is only cheap for 2 years.
 
I mean I would assume so on court since they are adding wins. I mean if Walkers contributions mean very little to draft positioning I assume we would not care at all if the vet was less than that. If we signed them to a 3-4 year deal I assume value would be close since Walker is only cheap for 2 years.
So being much younger and having a much higher likelihood of future improvement over some random vet we can sign are just negligible factors?
 
So being much younger and having a much higher likelihood of future improvement over some random vet we can sign are just negligible factors?
Nope… but that’s the awesome thing… those factors would obviously have an impact on his market value… so we would have captured that already at least in part. And again… if he is roughly the same player he was last year his market value tanks… so we’ve insulated ourselves against some loss there.
 
Nope… but that’s the awesome thing… those factors would obviously have an impact on his market value… so we would have captured that already at least in part. And again… if he is roughly the same player he was last year his market value tanks… so we’ve insulated ourselves against some loss there.
Yeah I mean, if the Jazz don't believe in him and think this is the best he'll be value-wise, then sure, trade him if you can get value that you think will be better in the longterm.

Just make sure that 3% boost in the "Getting a star in the 2025 draft" odds is only a tiny part of that decision making.
 
Yeah I mean, if the Jazz don't believe in him and think this is the best he'll be value-wise, then sure, trade him if you can get value that you think will be better in the longterm.

Just make sure that 3% boost in the "Getting a star in the 2025 draft" odds is only a tiny part of that decision making.
I mean somewhere between 3-30% based on whatever math you decide to pull out of your *** lol.
 
I think the "Front Office Hates Kessler" crap is way overblown. I don't think the Jazz are going to trade him for a bag of peanuts, tank or no.

Last year they were quite obviously limiting his minutes to impact winning (or perhaps to see what they had in Collins.) At this point in his career, he probably isn't enough to get you from 40 to 45 wins, but he is enough to get you from 20 to 25 quite easily if you give him burn on the court. I'd imagine that being held out of games to ensure a loss probably didn't go well with Kessler which accounted for some of the moping.

If anyone gets traded for peanuts, it will be Clarkson.
You spoke of the front office but then talked about what the coach did. (im not so sure they are on the same page. Front office might like kessler hence no trade. Hardy might not like him hence low minutes)
As for clarkson, the only player that played more minutes than him the last two seasons was lauri. Clarkson played 33 minutes per game in the 22-23 season and 31 minutes per game in the 23-24 season. If the jazz front office or coaching staff dont think much of clarkson then they have a very strange way of showing it.
 
I mean somewhere between 3-30% based on whatever math you decide to pull out of your *** lol.
Repeating it yet again:

The 30% was the (generous) math for trading Kessler directly leading us to getting a player a lot better than we otherwise would. And it was generous - realistically it's probably half that.

The 3% was the odds of trading Kessler directly leading to us going from not getting a superstar to getting a superstar. Even that was probably generous as well.
 
And look I get all the “they say this draft is amazing… I’ve heard that before lol”. They aren’t perfect at predicting draft quality throughout the first round… but they are generally decent at declaring a good draft based on the strength at the top. Next year has one of the most bankable top 5s in recent memory. Could it be the Parker Wiggins draft? Yup but even that draft produced an MVP and the number 1 pick had enough value to allow Cleveland to trade for an all nba power forward. VJ edgecomb is like the 5th or 6th guy on most boards and is dominating at the Olympics as an 18 year old and looking like the best player on his team that is full of NBA players.
 
Repeating it yet again:

The 30% was the (generous) math for trading Kessler directly leading us to getting a player a lot better than we otherwise would. And it was generous - realistically it's probably half that.

The 3% was the odds of trading Kessler directly leading to us going from not getting a superstar to getting a superstar. Even that was probably generous as well.
Repeat it as much as you want. It’s numbers pulled out of space. Citing 3% like it’s a number nasa certified is hilarious… sorry.
 
Repeat it as much as you want. It’s numbers pulled out of space. Citing 3% like it’s a number nasa certified is hilarious… sorry.
Assign your own values. I don't think any of mine are outlandish, but I'm certainly not pretending it's NASA-certified. If anything, I think the last variable is probably too high, but whatever:

20%: Kessler by himself improving our win total enough to move us from 4th-5th worst to 9th-10th worst
79.8%: The Jazz not jumping up in the lottery
20%: The Jazz not drafting a superstar in the 9th-10th spot, whereas they would have drafted a superstar with the 4th-5th pick.

20% x 79.8% x 20% = 3.2%
 
Third team required
I suspect the Wolves would be sending out Towns to get Lauri, and since we don't need Towns, we would get whatever the other team gives up for Towns. This is supposing that there is a larger market for Towns than Lauri, which outside of the morons on Twitter, I don't see.
 
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