Because he just had the best year of his career on a team that wants to develop him and more teams will have cap-space next season.
Roster Building From Here - FA and Summer of 2023
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We’re going to guarantee THT minutes next year? Only reason he even got to play as much as he did because we traded Conley and Sexton got hurt. What if we draft a PG and a wing (which is likely)? Not much minutes to go around for THT.
I mean, he's going to have to earn his minutes, but he's going to have the opportunity. Hardy likes him.
Maybe he can find that team with cap-space. From what I can tell those teams are Houston (terrible place for him to go for his career), San Antonio (could be interesting), OKC (could also be interesting, but also a lot of minutes competition), Detroit (****ing awful place to go developmentally), Indiana (could work, but a lot of minutes competition at the guard spots), Orlando (also could work, but a lot of guard minutes competition). Is he going to leave 10 million on the table to chase a long-term MLE deal from someone else? Doubt it.
I think everyone else is over the cap? Lakers could free up space, but they are going after Kyrie and if they can't get him they will probably just run in back and re-sign Russell?
I don't see any team that is a clear fit for THT. Why not stick with the team that is showing it can advance your career and go into a more wide open free agent class? Maybe Utah decides they dont want to go after any big name FA and they work out a deal where THT opts out and they come to a long-term deal they both like. I just dont see him leaving Utah at this point. I think he likes Utah. The dude talks to David Locke.
The MLE next year is more money than what THT would get paid next year by opting in. He could sign a 4/48M deal on the MLE with a team or even a 3/35M.
I could be wrong and he might just love being here and I think him opting in would be a bargain for us and he could be a valuable trade piece to make salary match. I just don’t see it happening.
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Why burn half a season and a roster spot... plus time and attention.
... Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhy?
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If we traded Lauri maybe. We will want to give the Thunder the pick we owe… next years draft is not likely a good one.
Locke doesn’t know… he ran some ducking simulation of “point gains brought to you by Built Bars” and thinks the pelicans are the best team in the league or some ****.
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He needs help, lol.
His reasoning was basically because the vets that helped us win games (Conley, Beasley and Vando) the first half of the season are gone, and we're going to be playing 3 rookies next season and you typically don't win a lot of games with rookies. He also mentioned Doc Rivers second season in Boston when they started a rebuild and had a 33-49 record the first season of the rebuild and then went 24-58 the next season...he thinks something very similar could happen with the Jazz. Said when he projects what he thinks next years roster will be, he thinks it's probably about a 25 win team. He also thinks we're still really short on talent at this point.
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I don't think he said that. Said it would be a possibility.
"I've started to piece together next year's roster and I've got to be honest, when I do that, I think it's closer to a 25 win roster than a 35 win roster". He did add that maybe Lauri will be so good, and maybe Kessler will be so good defensively that he'll be proven wrong.