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Game Thread Nov 07, 2025 06:00PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Minnesota Timberwolves

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Lauri’s goal this season is probably to make the All-Star Game. I wonder how games like this, where our young team can’t compete and he’s taken out early (with 12 points), affect his motivation. If this keeps happening, would he start thinking about asking to be traded?
He's not the personality asking for a trade, especially when he loves everything in Salt Lake City and has great relationship with Hardy. All star will be a pipe dream. The team is too bad, and with Kessler gone for season the team is way too bad for Lauri to have energy too keep up great efficiency. As an off ball force, his breathing room now is close to zero as Jazz has no real NBA calibre center to help out, nor 3pt shooting. It is what it is.
 
Hardy is still quite young and has a lot to learn as a coach, but to say that he doesn’t know defense is pretty wild. If we had OKC’s roster instead of ours, would we still be struggling defensively? We wouldn’t.
It certainly doesn’t help having the most unathletic team in the league. Nurk, slow-mo, Love, Minivan, and a few un-named youngsters. Not easy being Hardy, particularly when you consider what happened in Boston after he left and how he was positioned for the throne there.
 
He's not the personality asking for a trade, especially when he loves everything in Salt Lake City and has great relationship with Hardy. All star will be a pipe dream. The team is too bad, and with Kessler gone for season the team is way too bad for Lauri to have energy too keep up great efficiency. As an off ball force, his breathing room now is close to zero as Jazz has no real NBA calibre center to help out, nor 3pt shooting. It is what it is.
Yeah, it might be a pipe dream, but still probably a goal for him this season.
 
Gotta admit that I don’t get the introduction of Collier to the starting lineup in such a big game. Say what you want about Emirates, but the Wolves were totally fired up to beat us by as many points as possible and starting a guy just back from injury with no real workouts or scrimmages was totally reckless in my view. He’d been cleared to play since Boston and never saw a single minute till the big away Emirates Cup game on the road against a powerhouse team. And meanwhile, our best perimeter defender Harkless sees only minimal garbage minutes. I mean I understand tanking but that just seemed like overkill - reckless and abusive.
 
Top 3 +/- players for the Jazz this year:

Kessler (2.8)
Harkless (2.4)
Williams (1.0)

Bottom 3 +/- players for the Jazz this year:

Collier (-38)
Bailey (-10.9)
Nurkic (-6.0)
 
Top 3 +/- players for the Jazz this year:

Kessler (2.8)
Harkless (2.4)
Williams (1.0)

Bottom 3 +/- players for the Jazz this year:

Collier (-38)
Bailey (-10.9)
Nurkic (-6.0)
A little unfair to post Collier after injury and he was thrown to the Wolves (literally) last night, don’t you think?
 
Not unfair, none of it means anything.
Well maybe not to you and me but it could be misinterpreted by someone not realizing that he only played that one game. Perhaps you saw my earlier post but it kinda irks me that Hardy chose to start him in a game of that magnitude on the road (no real team workouts) and with zero minutes in the other away games leading up.
 
Well maybe not to you and me but it could be misinterpreted by someone not realizing that he only played that one game. Perhaps you saw my earlier post but it kinda irks me that Hardy chose to start him in a game of that magnitude on the road (no real team workouts) and with zero minutes in the other away games leading up.
That game had zero magnitude.
 
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