MDAV28
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We could find tons of guys like that in the DLeague right now. Giving up assets for Covington. Nah.
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We could find tons of guys like that in the DLeague right now. Giving up assets for Covington. Nah.
You are underrating Covington. 6'8 w/ a 7'2 wingspan and can hit the 3. He would also help in some scenarios where teams go small. Think about Dallas when they put Parsons at the 4 and we struggled to guard him with Favors or Booker.
He is also on contract for 2 more years after this year. 1,000,000 a year. Bargain contract and probably better than what the GS pick will end up becoming. He adds something we don't have to the team.
MDAV28
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We could just play Hayward on the small 4 if we wanted to counter that. The point is to keep Favors and Gobert on the court, so that doesn't fix anything cause you'd be taking them off the court for Covington.
So we want to play our best player out of position? If Utah wanted to play this way with Hayward they would have deployed this more often by now, they haven't.
MDAV28
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Hayward would play that spot better on both ends than Covington so yes. But exactly why the Jazz don't use that because Favors and Gobert need to stay on the court. Hayward/Favors/Gobert is better than Hayward/Covington/Favors or Hayward/Covington/Gobert in any circumstance.
Cappy_Smurf
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Have you been playing with your magic 8 ball again, or did you finally invest in a genuine crystal ball? Let's go over this again. The GS pick won't be traded, because it's trade value is that of a very low first rounder, but due to it being unprotected, could end up turning to gold with a couple of key injuries. And please, save us the blah blah blah about what you think the odds are of that actually happening. Injuries happen all the time in the NBA anymore, and you just don't trade away unprotected picks when you have multiple other picks to trade, such as your own in which you can control the protection. The GS pick won't be traded, let alone in a trade like this.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
Any trade would likely be written so as to give up the worse of the two picks - i.e. Utah has the option on which pick to give up. And there might be lottery protection on both.
Cappy_Smurf
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Utah can't put protection on the GS pick.
♪alt13
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Based on DL's history the player he gets @30 will probably be better than the player we get with our own pick.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
You're right. So the worse of the two picks.
Knowing that GS' pick is LIKELY to be in the late 20's, even WITH some injuries here and there, DL wouldn't trade Utah's pick just so he could keep GS' - JUST IN CASE something catastrophic happens. Because the overwhelming odds are that Utah's pick falls in the 18-22 range and GS' in the 28-30 range.
So I guess if you stipulate that Utah gets to choose which pick to convey, Utah only gets screwed if BOTH teams suffer significant injuries and both miss the playoffs.