Game Thread Oct 24, 2025 08:00PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Sacramento Kings

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Also kind of shocked Kyle Anderson isnt in the rotation at all. Really curious if Niang even gets minutes when he's healthy.

 

[KqWIN]

Also kind of shocked Kyle Anderson isnt in the rotation at all. Really curious if Niang even gets minutes when he's healthy.

These two are a reason why I think the tank is at some risk. We actually have some depth on this team. Niang and Anderson aren’t great players or anything, but they’re not going to be tank commanders in the same way that Cody or Collier were last season.

To really tank you have to have lots of minutes who can only get minutes in a tanking situation, usually young guys. It’s not a 22/23 situation where the roster is loaded with vets who can still play….but a lot of the young players have graduated into becoming real, NBA rotation caliber players.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Forgot to mention in my game thoughts that Nurk (at least the Jazz version of him) is one of the most unserious players I've ever seen. I mean the dude has apparently decided that he's not going to jump whatever happens. He's just kinda reaching for rebounds as if he's glued to the floor. "FU, I'm not gonna jump." LOL

It's obvious he's not motivated, to say the least. Probably knows his time in Utah won't be long.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Forgot to mention in my game thoughts that Nurk (at least the Jazz version of him) is one of the most unserious players I've ever seen. I mean the dude has apparently decided that he's not going to jump whatever happens. He's just kinda reaching for rebounds as if he's glued to the floor. "FU, I'm not gonna jump." LOL

It's obvious he's not motivated, to say the least. Probably knows his time in Utah won't be long.

He got 11 rebounds in 18 minutes....

And yeah, he's a 290 lb big man. He is glued to the floor.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

The Jazz would love to have Castle. He probably would have been the #1 pick if the Jazz won the lottery that year.

Probably not, it probably would have been Cody, lol.

But Castle sucks as a prospect in general (non-shooting guards are not valuable) and doesn't fit the Jazz's focus on bombing threes either. I don't think Ainge or Hardy have ever expressed much interest in offensive limited players.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Probably not, it probably would have been Cody, lol.

But Castle sucks as a prospect in general (non-shooting guards are not valuable) and doesn't fit the Jazz's focus on bombing threes either. I don't think Ainge or Hardy have ever expressed much interest in offensive limited players.

Castle is a great defender and is definitely not offensively limited. Yeah, he's not a great shooter, but he's not a hopeless shooter. He's been great the first two games of the season. If the Jazz could get him and some picks for Lauri, it would be very tough to pass up.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

Castle is a great defender and is definitely not offensively limited. Yeah, he's not a great shooter, but he's not a hopeless shooter. He's been great the first two games of the season. If the Jazz could get him and some picks for Lauri, it would be very tough to pass up.

Obviously we're not going to get picks in addition to Castle or Ausar.

(The trades are very unlikely as I doubt the Jazz like Castle or Ausar and I doubt the Spurs or Pistons want to give them up without winning a playoff series)

I do wonder if the Jazz could trade future picks to try to get a real SG to try to make the play-in if the Spurs and Pistons refuse to trade much for Lauri. Not really any teams that make sense other than them.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

He got 11 rebounds in 18 minutes....

I know he did, but he didn't win any battles. If you're that massive, you're gonna pick up a ton of uncontested defensive boards by just existing and refusing to move from under the rim.

It's just weird. Nurk's #1 priority on the court is obviously conserving energy. Maybe he has hobbies where he needs it.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

I know he did, but he didn't win any battles. If you're that massive, you're gonna pick up a ton of uncontested defensive boards by just existing and refusing to move from under the rim.

It's just weird. Nurk's #1 priority on the court is obviously conserving energy. Maybe he has hobbies where he needs it.

Nurk is physically toast, he just can't jump in general?

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

So my question to you: If we trade lauri and kessler and then win 60 games this season and go to the western conference finals would you be mad that we didn't tank?

I ignored that because it 100% isn’t happening no point in answering it

If that happened (which is basically impossible so it’s a silly exercise anyways) then that would mean that we have a 20-22 year old nba MVP on our team right now. I would think that is pretty satisfactory and actually prefer it to getting a top 5 pick in the next draft.

Who is the mvp? Even so we need more talent so we don’t luck into just one dominant season. I want complete dominance I want to compete for titles year in and out.

To do that we need to suck for years. Do you think OKC was bad for just two or three years?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I know he did, but he didn't win any battles. If you're that massive, you're gonna pick up a ton of uncontested defensive boards by just existing and refusing to move from under the rim.

It's just weird. Nurk's #1 priority on the court is obviously conserving energy. Maybe he has hobbies where he needs it.

Lmfao. You just sound kind of silly right now.

The job of massive centers is to be space eaters, not out of area rebounds. I just watched all his rebounds and many of them where him battling Sabonis for strong rebounds.

Watch for yourself https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CF...eamID=1610612762&flag=1&sct=plot&section=game

 

[Tanktastic]

Sacramento's guard line has decades of NBA experience, not sure that being angry that a second game rookie couldn't contain them is fair.

This is the NBA. Pretty much everyone other than the Jazz is going to have years of experience.

And angry? What are you talking about?

I mean there's a whole thread with this opener: "Best rebounding PG the Jazz have had in ages". Yeah, he's looked decent on offense, has rebounded well, but on D he's a traffic cone. It's taken Keyonte two full seasons to be where he's now, which is something like "only somewhat below average". Clayton is older than Keyonte and where Keyonte was two years ago: a turnstile.

Forgot to mention in my game thoughts that Nurk (at least the Jazz version of him) is one of the most unserious players I've ever seen. I mean the dude has apparently decided that he's not going to jump whatever happens. He's just kinda reaching for rebounds as if he's glued to the floor. "FU, I'm not gonna jump." LOL

It's obvious he's not motivated, to say the least. Probably knows his time in Utah won't be long.

Or he has no jump left. That's what happens to centers with that body type, when they hit 30+.