We had the least amount of leverage and ended up with the most valuable asset. Sounds pretty good to me.
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If we’re not tanking next year though Conley would have been a nice piece to have. Why are we wanting to get off of his contract?
To have cap space and why keep someone who isn’t a part of the future?
Yeah but he could have been a great mentor to our young guys..
A great backup in case we drafted a PG too…
He is old af and Utah needs to sign long term players who are closer to their prime
I wonder if the Wizards are going to screw up and beat the Celtics.
FrenchJazzFa
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Actually i do think this trade make sense for many reasons :
- Jazz coud not rely on Mike. He is getting old and if we are good in 2 years, Mike might get catch by time so i can understand DA plus his salary. We get space and hopefully we got a top player for next season.
- Minny want to get rid of DLo. Individual player with awful defense and TO prone. They clearly knew they will never win with him. Plus the fact that they desperatly need to improve Rudy game and Mike can help. The funny point is that Minny fan seems to consider Mike as very good defender, which just show how bad Dlo was. Mike is average defender, smart on crutch time but not good defender. So Minny improve ( better defense, TO down from 15.9 to 11.7 after the trade, Rudy back to his level) and they don't need a scoring PG as offense is on ANT and KAT shoulders mostly.
- Lakers get DLO, Beasley and Vando, Good pick with Vando and get rid of Russ but for the rest, another move that probably do not bring them far. But it's quite normal as Lakers do not have the smartest Front office....
The only 2 bad points for me in this trade are :
- IF we are good next year, Mike would have been very useful.
- We make Minnny better this year and the pick we got from them will probably not be good.
- Jazz coud not rely on Mike. He is getting old and if we are good in 2 years, Mike might get catch by time so i can understand DA plus his salary. We get space and hopefully we got a top player for next season.
- Minny want to get rid of DLo. Individual player with awful defense and TO prone. They clearly knew they will never win with him. Plus the fact that they desperatly need to improve Rudy game and Mike can help. The funny point is that Minny fan seems to consider Mike as very good defender, which just show how bad Dlo was. Mike is average defender, smart on crutch time but not good defender. So Minny improve ( better defense, TO down from 15.9 to 11.7 after the trade, Rudy back to his level) and they don't need a scoring PG as offense is on ANT and KAT shoulders mostly.
- Lakers get DLO, Beasley and Vando, Good pick with Vando and get rid of Russ but for the rest, another move that probably do not bring them far. But it's quite normal as Lakers do not have the smartest Front office....
The only 2 bad points for me in this trade are :
- IF we are good next year, Mike would have been very useful.
- We make Minnny better this year and the pick we got from them will probably not be good.
David Stern
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I’d rather have the most amount of leverage and end up with nothing, aka the New York Knicks. I can’t believe how much we regret not doing that trade to give them Donovan.
SteakNEggs
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LA and Minny had to make trades, we didn't. Now if we were going to tank it makes sense but we unloaded 3 solid pieces and now we're just barely on the outside looking in for the playoffs. We may miss the playoffs and screw up a high pick Without us, Minny is stuck with DLo and the team struggles. Without us LA is stuck with RW.
I don't buy that that Lakers aren't going to have a chance to rebuild and even if they completely suck the pick is protected... Lightly but that pick lost value. To me, that's where the trade shifts in the other direction. Hopefully I'm wrong and that pick becomes of higher value in a trade of some sort but as I said, it being protected kind of defeated the importance of that pick. That pick is so valuable strictly because of the potential of it being a top 4 pick. That's the entire premise behind it being valuable.
My 2 cents anyways.
I don't buy that that Lakers aren't going to have a chance to rebuild and even if they completely suck the pick is protected... Lightly but that pick lost value. To me, that's where the trade shifts in the other direction. Hopefully I'm wrong and that pick becomes of higher value in a trade of some sort but as I said, it being protected kind of defeated the importance of that pick. That pick is so valuable strictly because of the potential of it being a top 4 pick. That's the entire premise behind it being valuable.
My 2 cents anyways.
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Yep. Jazz just a game ahead of the Wizards IF they can manage to put a win on the Spurs tomorrow.
Coach Ellis
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Stupid Thunder couldn’t make a free throw to save their lives and ended up dropping a winnable game to the Hornets - what the heck? This season is so dumb.
Thunder held out Shai. I'm not sure they're serious about competing this season.
We want the Warriors to win. The Pelicans aren’t going to catch us.
Whichever team wins tonight will push the Twolves to the 7th seed temporarily, NOLA because they have the tie-breaker currently and Golden State because they'd be up a half game. I could see Golden State getting to 44 wins on the season if they win tonight. They have a relatively soft schedule and the Kings won't have anything to play for when the Ws match up with them in the last week of the season. That would at least keep the Twolves in the play-in, where they'd have to contend with the Lakers, Pels or Mavs.