Most likely to be traded?

[NUMBERICA]

So I would love to believe that Azubuike has any value, but I have absolutely zero idea why he would right now. He was projected as a mid-2nd rounder last year for god's sake and he didn't do anything last year.

I don't think he has any value until he earns it.

 

[NUMBERICA]

My hope is that a team likes Azubuike enough that you can package him and 30 to move up. In a vacuum I don't dislike the Azubuike pick but when you take into account Rudy's contract + adding Favors and it becomes an awful pick.

I want to emphasize your point here because I don't want the complaint to be about Azubuike himself rather than the context he was picked. Even if they would've grabbed Favors still, even paying Gobert, Azubuike at #38 or #39 is just fine. That would've been enough to get me on board with the decision. And by all accounts, he would've been there.

 

[That1UtahFan]

I want to emphasize your point here because I don't want the complaint about Azubuike himself rather than the context he was picked. Even if they would've grabbed Favors still, even paying Gobert, Azubuike at #38 or #39 is just fine. That would've been enough to get me on board with the decision. And by all accounts, he would've been there.

100% agree

 

[NUMBERICA]

I'm ready to see Azubuike.

 

[That1UtahFan]

My hope is that a team likes Azubuike enough that you can package him and 30 to move up. In a vacuum I don't dislike the Azubuike pick but when you take into account Rudy's contract + adding Favors and it becomes an awful pick.

I should've prefaced this with that I want Azubuike to succeed in a Jazz uniform but if you can somehow get a top 20 pick out it I'd probably do it. But I can't help but think DLs entire thought process of taking Azubuike where he did was the hopes he'd become good enough sooner rather than later so he could trade Gobert because other than that I still don't see the logic of taking him in the first round when there were other players on the board that would have been much better picks and still would have been able to walk away with Azubuike in the 2nd round.

 

[Elizah Huge]

To be fair Trey Lyles and 24 got us up to 13 to get Mitchell lol

 

[jom2003]

My hope is that a team likes Azubuike enough that you can package him and 30 to move up. In a vacuum I don't dislike the Azubuike pick but when you take into account Rudy's contract + adding Favors and it becomes an awful pick.

One of those textbook cases in professional sports where you draft a rookie only to have zero path for him to develop or succeed.