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Lauri has taken a step back lately. Some of that is from expected regression from a hot start, but I also think he looks a little run down out there from so many minutes. When you take his entire 19 game sample size, I think he's pretty much on par with Year 1&2 as a Jazzman. More usage and shots, but less relative efficiency. The good news is that this means Lauri is still an awesome player, but I don't think he's necessarily taken a "leap" if that makes sense.
 
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Lauri has taken a step back lately. Some of that is from expected regression from a hot start, but I also think he looks a little run down out there from so many minutes. When you take his entire 19 game sample size, I don't think he's pretty much on par with Year 1&2 as a Jazzman. More usage and shots, but less relative efficiency. The good news is that this means Lauri is still an awesome player, but I don't think he's necessarily taken a "leap" if that makes sense.
We've seen this a lot in players that play a full slate of summer leagues and tournaments. It adds to the wear and tear on their bodies and they often enter a slump part way into the season. I've never been a fan of a team paying a players 10's, and now basically 100's of millions just for that player to burn all their gas during the summer and not have anything left for the team that made them multimillionaires.
 
Sorry, that would be full-blown... R-worded. I don’t have a more suitable descriptor.

This organization is a little dysfunctional, it’s not that.
I think we might be full-blown spaz mode tbh. I'm not encouraged by the stuff I hear. Think we have too many voices in the FO right now and it pulls in multiple directions. The goal of being "the most competitive 20-25 win team" is in itself inconsistent.

Svi, Love, etc. are good for culture... I get that. You can't have them adding any wins though as the margins are so thin if Key and Lauri are playing and are good.
 
Oh wow, the one millionth report in a row says the Jazz want to winner sooner than later. Shocking.
If they traded Lauri now it would be the greatest rug pull acting job by a front office maybe ever.
 
The Jazz have no trade assets on their roster other than Ace Bailey and the 2031 Suns pick and one of their three NBA players is out for the season, lol.

Are we going to package together Cody Williams, Taylor Hendricks, Walter Clayton Jr, and the 2027 Lakers first for like Daniel Gafford. That's probably the ceiling of what we can get.

We have a -7.8 (!!!!) point differential.
 
We've seen this a lot in players that play a full slate of summer leagues and tournaments. It adds to the wear and tear on their bodies and they often enter a slump part way into the season. I've never been a fan of a team paying a players 10's, and now basically 100's of millions just for that player to burn all their gas during the summer and not have anything left for the team that made them multimillionaires.

'"Anything left"?

We're a long way into the season and this dude is literally averaging 28/6/2 while playing almost 36mpg. Not to mention the amount he runs during a game is flat out crazy for a 7 footer.

Sure Lauri's probably getting tired, but I'd worry more about the fact that there are kids on this team who didn't "burn their gas" playing international ball in the summer, and they're still not working half as hard as Lauri.

I mean what's their excuse? The last time I checked, they were all multimillionaires.
 
'"Anything left"?

We're a long way into the season and this dude is literally averaging 28/6/2 while playing almost 36mpg. Not to mention the amount he runs during a game is flat out crazy for a 7 footer.

Sure Lauri's probably getting tired, but I'd worry more about the fact that there are kids on this team who didn't "burn their gas" playing international ball in the summer, and they're still not working half as hard as Lauri.

I mean what's their excuse? The last time I checked, they were all multimillionaires.
Please show me where I let anyone off the hook. Believe it or not you can hold more than one opinion at a time on a variety of subjects. So if I complain about players not playing hard enough am I also not allowed to be concerned about maybe officiating or something else? It isn't binary. Don't put words in my mouth. And you did nothing to answer my point, one way or the other. Yes his averages look good. But averages never tell the entire story. The trajectory is downward for pretty much all of his stats. That's the concern and the impetus for my comment.
 
What would be awesome is if we could trade for a decent player, keep Lauri, AND still tank for a top 5 pick we’d be good to go for next year
 
Please show me where I let anyone off the hook. Believe it or not you can hold more than one opinion at a time on a variety of subjects. So if I complain about players not playing hard enough am I also not allowed to be concerned about maybe officiating or something else? It isn't binary. Don't put words in my mouth. And you did nothing to answer my point, one way or the other. Yes his averages look good. But averages never tell the entire story. The trajectory is downward for pretty much all of his stats. That's the concern and the impetus for my comment.
Too reactionary mate.

Make few more threes in past two weeks and Lauri would have scored his normal 25 in most games. Shooters gonna have slumps especially if you face teams like OKC or Houston in that period. And shooters gonna feast when you have a stretch like Jažz had to start the season - many easy matchups.
 
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