Jazz and Knicks discussing Donovan Mitchell trade per Shams Charania and Tony Jones

[Handlogten's Heros]

A lot of the Donovan hype is off small game sample size of epic playoff performances. Great stuff, but it isnt proof he can always do it as evidenced by his mediocre showing against an OK-Mavericks team.

And part of that is in the bubble. Where everyone shot really well.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I think getting international guys that aren't part of the AAU cool kids club is something we should focus on as well.

I think if we were better we'd have a bigger runway for some of these guys. I am not super worried about every dude just requesting out. Build an awesome team and guys will want to stay.

Get the best talent you can and hope for the best. At the end of the day winning is what keeps players on board. The Jazz couldn't win so Mitchell gave up.

Also probably had something to do with Adidas designing him the ********* possible shoe every year because he's in a small market and has mid-personality. Probably tired of wearing the Harden's design rejects.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Imagine if we traded Bogey, Royce, Clarkson plus all of our future picks for KAT. Would we be sitting here thinking we’re championship contenders?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

If Edwards or Gobert go down they are absolutely a play-in team.

They traded all of their depth to us. They better hope this works out and a lot of people don’t think it will.

Point to me the last team that had their two all-stars have early season ending injuries for players who have excellent health track records.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Donovan and Conley were both top-3 in take fouls last year. I wish I was kidding.

And that is now penalized so the Jazz would’ve been a play-in team even if they kept it together and duct-taped some **** onto it.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Imagine if we traded Bogey, Royce, Clarkson plus all of our future picks for KAT. Would we be sitting here thinking we’re championship contenders?

No, because we would still have Donovan Mitchell instead of Edwards and we also wouldnt have D'Lo/McDaniels/Slow-Mo

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I think getting international guys that aren't part of the AAU cool kids club is something we should focus on as well.

I think if we were better we'd have a bigger runway for some of these guys. I am not super worried about every dude just requesting out. Build an awesome team and guys will want to stay.

The Jazz have this problem, but so does most of the league. Guys want New York, LA and Miami. They may tolerate San Francisco, Chicago and a couple more spots. I think Brunson leaving Dallas for New York is also not a coincidence.

 

[LogGrad98]

Yup, Donovan bought his own hype. He's a product of Gobert.

Not saying he wouldnt have good stats without Gobert, but Gobert's ability let a stat-hog get into the playoffs where he could put up massive stats while dogging it on defense.

He's just Collin Sexton who got the gift of playing with a GOAT.

And then we traded away the GOAT that was connected to the franchise and wanted to be here for his career and would have been a solid corner-stone as we rebuilt. **** us.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Point to me the last team that had their two all-stars have early season ending injuries for players who have excellent health track records.

I said one or the other I didn’t say both.

KAT + Gobert with no Edwards is a play-in team

Edwards + KAT with no Gobert is a play-in team

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Get the best talent you can and hope for the best. At the end of the day winning is what keeps players on board. The Jazz couldn't win so Mitchell gave up.

Also probably had something to do with Adidas designing him the ********* possible shoe every year because he's in a small market and has mid-personality. Probably tired of wearing the Harden's design rejects.

I agree you get the best talent possible... but the international guys just seem more loyal and less likely to try and congregate on a team they designed. Winning is number 1 of course.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Point to me the last team that had their two all-stars have early season ending injuries for players who have excellent health track records.

He said “or”.

They also traded us the dude that - and yes I am serious - might have been the culture-changer that made them competitive.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Also that Austin Hornton thing just confirms how ugly the whole Covid situation was with Gobert/Mitchell.

Gobert got thrown the **** under the bus, run over, and reversed on, just so Mitchell could have some reason for a ****ing grievance. Pathetic ****.