If Oni can just get better at his best attribute, defense, and do it without fouling he has value. If he can do that and make more spotups he has consistent rotation value
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It seems like he got worse as the season went on, which is a bad sign. Maybe it's just confidence?
He did have a big impact on the last Denver game. MPJ was going off and then Oni switched on to him and got him out of rythm.
LoPo
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I just find it hard to believe that we would bail on Oni just to save $200,000. Sure he might not be a top 8 or 9 rotation guy, but continuity is important.
Pretty sure the savings is more than that. Oni is paid 1,800,000 next year. I believe you can sign an undrafted rookie for 800K? So that would be 1,000,000 savings plus whatever the luxury tax savings would be from that. I'm not 100% on all that though, but yeah, even regardless of savings I would be for it. I just think the Jazz should reset their low level asset plays.
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Well, zero chance Clarkson gets traded. Don liked a tweet praising Clarkson.
Don is also praying an awful lot lately. About what, I do not know.
Don is also praying an awful lot lately. About what, I do not know.
Ineptimusprime
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There is 100% some merit to resetting the back half of the roster. We’re currently getting next to nothing after spot 9 other than a couple decent games from Trent Forrest.
It’s a part of the roster we can realistically blow up this offseason, save some pennies too, and there’s really minimal downside there. I think we’ll be replacing Niang’s minutes with a mini-mle vet (if we can find one) and then it’s about doing things on the cheap. Go fishing for young pieces that can be signed to cheap team-friendly deals for tax reasons (and that can be thrown aside next year if it’s a blow up) and hope you catch a Lu Dort.
It’s not likely to yield anything of value, but it’s not like we’re losing anything of value or taking any real risk by doing so.
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homeytennis
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I giggle when DL gaslights all of us great unwashed about how Oni is going to be the next great big guard defender in the league. Then this board says "Oh but we need a wing that can defend." There have been guys pass through and management or Quin don't give a peep that fit this description. I give you a partial list: Ty Wallace, Kyle Collinsworth, Malcom Miller, Rodney Pryor, Trevon Bluiett and Maleek Benlevi. The last three are career GLeaguers and the first three have some NBA experience. Miller won a ring with the Raptors. Basically you want this person to basically not suck when called upon with the 2nd unit and play decent D during that time on the floor. But DL and Quin are much smarter than us rubes. Wallace averaged over 9 ppg for the Clips one year.
Ineptimusprime
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Honestly, I think we end up paying Trevor Ariza the mini-mle or part of the mini-MLE on a one year guaranteed deal with a team option on the second year. No one else offers him anything but the minimum, so we end up with Ariza playing Niang’s minutes.
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I was just basing it off of Hughes' contract and other guys we have had in recent years. Most of those guys are getting around $1.5. You could be right that we get a guy more around $1 million. Maybe we do.
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Tony was a known Niko hater…
Oh my hell, every day he’s tweeting about God’s going to give him what he prayed for on Twitter.
3 untouchables because of Donovan’s relationship with them: Royce, JC, Forrest. So don’t bother including them in trades. I’d put Hughes here as wells bit. Basically Andy on Monday said Forrest is one of the guys who will for sure be back, part of it being Donovan’s relationship with him. I like Forrest, and I think he can be a viable backup guard so I’m happy to see him back, but just by what Andy said, I wouldn’t expect any moves involving anyone Donovan is close with. What a fun dance trying to keep a star happy.
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There is also an argument to seeing what you have in Udoka… independent of cost. If you are biting the bullet on that cost go ahead and see what you can get for Udoka.