I think he needs to go, he'll be stealing minutes off the Minivan when it returns from servicing.
Game Thread Oct 27, 2025 07:00PM MT: Phoenix Suns @ Utah Jazz
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I think he needs to go, he'll be stealing minutes off the Minivan when it returns from servicing.
jumpin bean
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remember last year teams tanking trying to capture the flagg by doing everything to lose but duck taping players feet together well golden goose Flagg tonight 31 minutes 2 points 2 rebounds yikes
If we're making verdicts one week into a guy's career, Ace is also a bust.
As was Wemby.
Great win! Loved watching it. Should have ended regular time though. Almost choked that one away, which is not good for development. Nice to see the guys engaged and trying unlike a huge chunk of last season.
I definitely don't want to see shameless hardcore tanking again and neither does the league. This team is too good to be bottom of the league. Kessler looks like an all-star and Lauri looks like an all-nba this year. It would be very dumb to trade them. I know our gambling addicts on here disagree though.
The young guys will improve across the season as well. George is looking good so far this season Ace was rough but he'll come along. We definitely shouldn't just force him minutes if he is playing like this, he needs to beat out Svi, which I think he can/will.
Lauri is looking like a #1 guy. He might not keep it up, but people are lying to themselves if they say he hasn't been that this season so far. His stats after 3 would put him towards the top of MVP list if he kept it up and we got guys on hear claiming he's playing like a #2 this year. He was also getting hammered non stop and refs could have legitimately called a foul half the possessions with him in. I'm hoping he stays healthy, this is fun to watch.
I definitely don't want to see shameless hardcore tanking again and neither does the league. This team is too good to be bottom of the league. Kessler looks like an all-star and Lauri looks like an all-nba this year. It would be very dumb to trade them. I know our gambling addicts on here disagree though.
The young guys will improve across the season as well. George is looking good so far this season Ace was rough but he'll come along. We definitely shouldn't just force him minutes if he is playing like this, he needs to beat out Svi, which I think he can/will.
Lauri is looking like a #1 guy. He might not keep it up, but people are lying to themselves if they say he hasn't been that this season so far. His stats after 3 would put him towards the top of MVP list if he kept it up and we got guys on hear claiming he's playing like a #2 this year. He was also getting hammered non stop and refs could have legitimately called a foul half the possessions with him in. I'm hoping he stays healthy, this is fun to watch.
Peter_Mentor
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I keep coming back to this, but besides Steph, who’s actually better off the ball or draws more off-ball attention than Lauri? There were times when three Suns players committed to take away his back door cuts. I'm sure that as the season progresses, the rest of the team will learn to better capitalize on those moments. I really liked that Lauri kept on running non stop even if the initial action didn't yield any results.
Without a doubt, his playing style is absolutely exhausting.
Without a doubt, his playing style is absolutely exhausting.
Hold ball
Instead of focusing on the worst case scenario, finishing bottom 8 and losing out on our pick due to getting jumped in the lottery, I'm going to try and focus on the best case scenario, we make the play in, but still win the lottery and keep our pick.
(Hopefully my logical brain will let me do this)
(Hopefully my logical brain will let me do this)
In 2022-23 Danny Ainge had a choice of direction in January. He could have given that scrappy .500 team reinforcements to get them in playoffs which may have also sabotaged Minny (we could have finished above them and not give them help with Conley).
There are signs that similar choices may be facing his son this year. This team does not look like a bottom feeded, but much more like a scrappy mid team. Even in our one loss... we shot poorly and Kings played with very high intensity in their own building, and it all still came down to one rebound we lost.
There are signs that similar choices may be facing his son this year. This team does not look like a bottom feeded, but much more like a scrappy mid team. Even in our one loss... we shot poorly and Kings played with very high intensity in their own building, and it all still came down to one rebound we lost.
Tanktastic
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Relax. This was one of the very few times that the Jazz will be favored going into a game.
I mean, if the Jazz do last season's tank job, what do you think that does to the chances of Markkanen and Kessler being on next season's team? No "running it back" when there's not a single player over 23 on your team.
Sure, for losing. But for Ace's future (which is pretty tied into the Jazz's future) running him out there when he's playing like this is poisonous. Dude is chucking everything up on O and barely jogging on D. I'm still giving him a free pass due to his illness and him being a week into his new job.
That's not an option. That's just a hope and a dream.
I mean, if the Jazz do last season's tank job, what do you think that does to the chances of Markkanen and Kessler being on next season's team? No "running it back" when there's not a single player over 23 on your team.
framer
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Sir, this is Jazzfanz. . .
Yup.
And there's a future where Lauri and Clayton are doing this kind of stuff away from the ball on both sides of floor. It's GSW stuff.
Sir, we need to be losing games. Keeping them close....—and then losing.
The thing about how Lauri is playing- none of it seems unsustainable. He is doing regular Lauri things- he just doesn’t have other quick trigger vets (less efficient ones at that) taking the available shots.
It is definitively HIS team and Keyonte is also generally less frantic in looking for his own shot.
Lauri is likely to sustain numbers near where he has been these first three games this whole season- at least until Ace starts consuming more of the oxygen in the offense.
It is definitively HIS team and Keyonte is also generally less frantic in looking for his own shot.
Lauri is likely to sustain numbers near where he has been these first three games this whole season- at least until Ace starts consuming more of the oxygen in the offense.
We're too good to be losing. Ainge is going to have to make some trades for that to happen.
Now that Klay is washed, no one.