Jazz trade for John Collins

[framer]

If Lauri is playing primarily as a 3 and Collins/Hendricks play a little 3, then it feels like there are still plenty of minutes to go around.

I'm not a huge KO fan, so I'm fine if goes, but I like the idea of Hendricks getting some playing time next to some more passing. It also feels like Hendricks could make up for some of KOs defensive and rebounding issues.

Everything that Hendricks is missing from his game is contained in Olynyk. I'm OK with letting them hang out a bit.

 

[Coach Ellis]

We have about 24 mill.....and that's without knowing THT and JC. They have 3 days to decide

If THT opts in, and Jordan Clarkson opts out. . . then how much will the Jazz have?

 

[fishonjazz]

Hey dude. Likewise! I'm glad you're still here.

Overall, I'm good. Massive career overhaul. In the next few months I'll be moving across the country to the woods of western Massachusetts. We're just about to close a deal on a 19 acre lot and build a house, which has been a dream for 5-6 years now.

Any place to fish around your land?

 

[Shad]

If THT opts in, and Jordan Clarkson opts out. . . then how much will the Jazz have?

EDIT: I need to double check this.

 

[Jingled]

View: https://twitter.com/BensHoops/status/1673471436382679042

 

[Eddie Zero]

Talent is talent is talent. Job of a good GM is to go get talent for the coaches to work with. If the Jazz have any cap space left, I fully expect them to add another player and roll with that group - at least until the trade deadline.

Collins >> Vando/Gay

At the end of the day, it’s an upgrade. Top-down roster building. Definitely a fan of that strategy.

Have you seen this bum at all in the past 2 seasons? I am guessing highlights is all? He is not the same guy he was coming out of college

 

[sip]

He’s 19.5 and I agree… but raw is not the term I’d use. I think he will be more functional than most rookies at his age because of his skill set and athleticism. On a good team he likely deserves 15-20 minutes a night… on a **** team he’s fine to start earlier in his career. Raw is like what Bilal is.

Yep. He is raw in the sense that he needs to get stronger and work on his ballhandling but he also has some advanced skills like shooting, touch around the hoop and defensive awareness that I think are nba ready right now and will make him an effective player this season.

 

[Eddie Zero]

39 million

lol jc opts out and they give all the cap space to THT smh

 

[framer]

Who’s gonna pass the ****ing ball ???

If your shooters are all oversized you don't need to pass the ball 10 times to get an open shot. We just shoot over scrubs. If we miss we just get the rebound an jam on them.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Helluva good trade.

You can see in a couple of these frames his ring finger, @2:05 mark :


View: https://youtu.be/wc2G4AGU2o4?t=124

That's troubling.

 

[KqWIN]

A early first quarter sub of Collins for Hendricks or KO will come and then you might match Collins with Dunn (who was shockingly awesome in PnR last year when I looked it up).

Gonna be interesting to see how they mix and match… Hardy has some weapons/options and seems like a flexible dude.

I've been harping on this idea that we need Luka for this roster construction to work, and while that's half joke/half true....I do think we're putting a lot of our players in a position to succeed. Do you really want Sexton/THT/Dunn to be your heliocentric ball hander? Probably not, but it's undoubtedly good for those players as individuals to dominate the ball on a spaced floor on with amazing help defense on the other end.

I don't think it's a meme that Sexton will average something crazy like 23/5 on great efficiency. He's in such a good position to succeed. Similarly, I think John Collins is going to obliterate opposing bench units when paired with KO in a 5 out lineup.

 

[baka98]

No Collins WAS a really good NBA player, he is not the same guy. It is obvious to everyone in the Hawks org. even though they clearly were trying to paint the picture that he was just having a down year trying to get value back in a trade for the past 2 seasons since he got busted. Fact is , he COULD get back to who he once was, but the odds it happens when he was so meh for 2 season that they never even tried to get him involved in the offense, says all I need to know about his ability or lack thereof

We gave up a 2nd round pick. Seriously? All you naysayers act like we’d given up the world to get him and we’ll be strapped forever. I just don’t get it. Did no one watch that video about both the Jazz and Hawk finances from the ESPN dude? He praised where we were.