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Prediction: Jazz Will Trade at Least One Rookie Contract Player on Draft Night

Which Rookie Contract Player Gets Traded on Draft Night?

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framer said:
I don't really want Dalton Knecht.
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That trade would be about the picks for the jazz.

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The Midnight said:
Yeah but his brother should take responsibility.

Surely he wants his little brother to succeed.
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Responsibility, or credit? I mean he already patted himself on the back in an interview a week ago or so:

"I think what makes me most emotional is probably just for a lot of my hard work, Cody doesn’t have to go through it. He was able to just get recruited the right way and obviously get to the NBA deservingly. A lot of that stems from just I think a lot of the struggles I had." - Jalen Williams
 
seattlejazzfan said:
Key is a 17 and 6, mildly inefficient 21 year old second year player. he has value. It's also why I wouldn't trade him now.
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Don't want to keep throwing down on Key but he is a negative impact player in every way except maybe passing? And that just isn't enough as a lead ballhandler or a high volume shot taker or a high level role player.

Let's say he improves to 42/36/85 splits and gets to league average TS% (56% for PG and 57% for SG). He is currently at 53%.

That still wouldn't be enough to be a starter or a role player on an NBA playoff team because of how negative he is on the defensive end. I suppose it's a less good version of Anfernee Simons, who the Blazers are trying to trade to make room for other prospects.

It was really disappointing that he wasn't able to make progress in his 2nd year. It's hard to be optimistic when the trendline is flat.

He's just expendable and the fact that he still young and has potential is the only reason he has any value, trade wise.
 
Key is a fine offensive prospect. He is on a trajectory to become a +1-2 player or even more on offense. But it’s hard to understate how bad his defense is. He is indeed one of the worst defenders in the league. The good thing for him is that going from a bottom 5 percentile defender to a bottom 30 percentile defender isn’t impossible. Plenty of offensive oriented guards in the league and Key looks to be another one of them. This archetype isn’t exactly the winning archetype we see shine in the playoffs, but that doesn’t mean they have no value in this league.

I feel as though people talk past each other on Key all the time and have very different expectations. If you’re hoping for him to be star player….yeah it’s unlikely. But then you have people implying he’s not even good enough to be in the NBA at all.
 
KqWIN said:
Key is a fine offensive prospect. He is on a trajectory to become a +1-2 player or even more on offense. But it’s hard to understate how bad his defense is. He is indeed one of the worst defenders in the league. The good thing for him is that going from a bottom 5 percentile defender to a bottom 30 percentile defender isn’t impossible. Plenty of offensive oriented guards in the league and Key looks to be another one of them. This archetype isn’t exactly the winning archetype we see shine in the playoffs, but that doesn’t mean they have no value in this league.

I feel as though people talk past each other on Key all the time and have very different expectations. If you’re hoping for him to be star player….yeah it’s unlikely. But then you have people implying he’s not even good enough to be in the NBA at all.
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Whether Key can stick and be an NBA player, I don't know. I am more focused on finding positive players that can be on the Jazz long term. It's a higher bar, for sure. I just don't have high expectations for his offensive ceiling and we don't need to get into his defense. Key is a streaky jump shooter type with a good not great jumper. The only thing that saves his efficiency is that he is great a drawing fouls. I don't think he is good enough offensively to be a high volume shooter and his other skills aren't good enough to slot him in as a role player. It's an awkward middle ground with his skillset. I would just rather move on and try other guys out. And he still has trade value precisely because there is some meat on the bone with his development.
 
Basketball Novice said:
Whether Key can stick and be an NBA player, I don't know. I am more focused on finding positive players that can be on the Jazz long term. It's a higher bar, for sure. I just don't have high expectations for his offensive ceiling and we don't need to get into his defense. Key is a streaky jump shooter type with a good not great jumper. The only thing that saves his efficiency is that he is great a drawing fouls. I don't think he is good enough offensively to be a high volume shooter and his other skills aren't good enough to slot him in as a role player. It's an awkward middle ground with his skillset. I would just rather move on and try other guys out. And he still has trade value precisely because there is some meat on the bone with his development.
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I don’t think he’s in an awkward middle ground. He’s just not a starter level player right now. It’s too soon to pigeonhole him into a certain role, but we know enough to say that he’s probably not going to be a star but he’s also probably not going to be out of the league. Going through this thread it seems as though there are a lot of people saying we can’t possibly trade Key because 1) he’s too good of a prospect to trade or 2) he actually sucks and has no value to be traded. Reality sits in the middle methinks.
 
But if I got Fears, I would probably prefer to deal Collier and keep Keyonte as a 6th man development type player. It feels like he's on the cusp of being a pretty good offensive player and could have real value going into his 4th season if he breaks out as an efficient scorer.
 
Key can play with Fears, Collier cannot. You just don’t see many rookies traded after a good first season. I’m not looking to immediately trade Key if Fears is drafted, but I’m certainly open to it. Would probably look to get a 2026 pick instead of another pick in this draft. But some kind of pick 15-25 value wise seems right.

I think it’s probably fine to have all 3 as long as Sexton is gone.
 
KqWIN said:
Key can play with Fears, Collier cannot. You just don’t see many rookies traded after a good first season. I’m not looking to immediately trade Key if Fears is drafted, but I’m certainly open to it. Would probably look to get a 2026 pick instead of another pick in this draft. But some kind of pick 15-25 value wise seems right.

I think it’s probably fine to have all 3 as long as Sexton is gone.
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I saw a blurb where Clarkson was playing golf with the owner so maybe he stays?
 
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