Game Thread Jan 12, 2026 05:00PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Cleveland Cavaliers

[framer]

Valuations consistently change and it’s certainly one way to measure it. Other ways, of which I’m inclined to judge, is if the net total brings us closer than where we were than when we unanimously declared sunk cost.

The status quo was not an option. There was not a world where we could continue to build around Gobert and Mitchell. The next year of that team would have looked a lot like this year's Clippers.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I just tuned in to see Cody guarding Evan Mobley in the mid-post and watching Mobley miss. Heh.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Cody just got to relentlessly drill the corner 3 this summer

 

[NUMBERICA]

The status quo was not an option. There was not a world where we could continue to build around Gobert and Mitchell. The next year of that team would have looked a lot like this year's Clippers.

You both make great points. They’re not mutually exclusive.

More on yours, though: that last Don/Gobert year is the most embarrassing Jazz team of all time. It was more than deserving of being nuked on its own merits.

 

[Shad]

Cody might be better than hendricks

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Cody might be better than hendricks

It's not really a question at the moment with the state of Hendricks athletic ability. He's certainly much higher IQ

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Jazz are strangely effective on defense right now. Not sure why exactly. Our guards generally are bigger than Cleveland's. Their lineup with Donovan, Garland and Merrill isn't physically imposing.

What happened to Deandre Hunter?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Jazz are strangely effective on defense right now. Not sure why exactly.

Because Cleveland has players you can say off of and they aren't consistently putting the Jazz in rotation.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Cody might be better than hendricks

He's doing a good job of fitting in and not stinking things up.

 

[framer]

Death, taxes, and Williams dunking the damn ball.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The status quo was not an option. There was not a world where we could continue to build around Gobert and Mitchell. The next year of that team would have looked a lot like this year's Clippers.

They could have.

With hindsight we could have just done the Gobert trade and built around Donovan. Walker was good enough to have instant impact. You keep NAW and develop him (we see he is now a plus starter). Keep Royce (still a good role player. Develop Keyonte.

It wasn't out of the question.

 

[Shad]

Keyonte driving always feels like it's going to drop