Following Potential 2025 Draftees

[Handlogten's Heros]

Wizards come to you before the draft. Offer 6 and 18 for 5 BUT you have to take the trade right now before knowing what the board looks like. You doing it?

 

[SoberasHotRod]

I haven't looked up the numbers like KqWIN, but anectdotedly this happens every year. People get on here saying that NBA spacing is going to be so good for a player and then it never happens.

I'm pretty sure that improved NBA spacing is negated by improved NBA defense.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

Wizards come to you before the draft. Offer 6 and 18 for 5 BUT you have to take the trade right now before knowing what the board looks like. You doing it?

Jazz have too many young guys to utilize another pick and would need the ability to move 18 and 21 and 42 up to like 11 for Queen. I don't know if they can move up to the late lottery with 18 and 21.

 

[Schrödinger's Gerbil]

Wizards come to you before the draft. Offer 6 and 18 for 5 BUT you have to take the trade right now before knowing what the board looks like. You doing it?

No, Jazz need THE guy, not guys. We tanked in the hope of getting a transformative player. If there's a player the Jazz think is this player, or close to it, and may be there at 5 but perhaps less likely to be there at 6, why take the risk for yet another prospect to add the to six prospects we already have? We already got jobbed by lady luck. It makes no sense to risk getting jobbed again, particularly if the risk is large and payoff is meh

 

[SoberasHotRod]

I haven't looked up the numbers like KqWIN, but anectdotedly this happens every year. People get on here saying that NBA spacing is going to be so good for a player and then it never happens.

I'm pretty sure that improved NBA spacing is negated by improved NBA defense.

I wonder if catch and shoot players are actually more positively impacted by NBA spacing. All of the help and recover defense leads to more open 3s (although shorter windows to shoot them).

 

[Schrödinger's Gerbil]

No, Jazz need THE guy, not guys. We tanked in the hope of getting a transformative player. If there's a player the Jazz think is this player, or close to it, and may be there at 5 but perhaps less likely to be there at 6, why take the risk for yet more prospects to add the to six prospects we already have? We already got jobbed by lady luck. It makes no sense to risk getting jobbed again, particularly if the risk is large and payoff is meh

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Jazz have too many young guys to utilize another pick and would need the ability to move 18 and 21 and 42 up to like 11 for Queen. I don't know if they can move up to the late lottery with 18 and 21.

You could also move off of a young guy or two if you wanted. Like at this point I am not putting much stock into Cody. I kind of know what Key is. I think we could move 18, 21 with other players as well or for future picks... I don't factor in the second rounders at all... just kick those down the road on draft night to a cap strapped team for a far out 2nd.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I haven't looked up the numbers like KqWIN, but anectdotedly this happens every year. People get on here saying that NBA spacing is going to be so good for a player and then it never happens.

I'm pretty sure that improved NBA spacing is negated by improved NBA defense.

Every context is different. Tre will have an easier time getting to the rim/in the paint on Utah than he would in the SEC on Texas.

Finishing is harder in the NBA, for the most part (depending on who you play), but the act of getting there is easier in the NBA.

When players get to the NBA, they (not all of course) greatly improve their finishing because it's such an important part of being a NBA player.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Wizards come to you before the draft. Offer 6 and 18 for 5 BUT you have to take the trade right now before knowing what the board looks like. You doing it?

No

 

[Basketball Novice]

Wizards come to you before the draft. Offer 6 and 18 for 5 BUT you have to take the trade right now before knowing what the board looks like. You doing it?

Absolutely, I like the guys in the 6-10 range alot. Plus, there are some interesting guys in the 20s that have some good potential. Take BPA at 6, take Yang or a center at 18 or 21 and then whatever late 1st round wing you think has the highest potential with the other pick. You would also be able to move up and down the first for whoever you wanted in the early teens if someone was to fall farther than expected.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Wizards come to you before the draft. Offer 6 and 18 for 5 BUT you have to take the trade right now before knowing what the board looks like. You doing it?

No, if Tre or Ace is there that would be an awful trade.

Only way I would say yes is if Utah guaranteed me they are taking Yang at 18. Then I would say yes.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If you are cool/indifferent on Tre/Kon and can pick up another pick... there is no such thing as too many picks.

Another one... NOP offer 7 and the Indiana 2026 they own for 5. Same deal. You have to do it before the draft starts.