If you like sweaty man meat. He just had more definition... those things can be a little deceiving but I think he came into camp out of shape last year... its all eye test so maybe not.
If you see more potential in THT than our rookies then I can’t help you.
He's on a 1 year unrestricted deal, of course he still has to prove it.
Oh I see tons of potential in blobs of clay. You said the rookies make us much closer to a finished product, which just isn't true. Potential only matters if it becomes real. That said you really think Keyonte or whoever we took at 28 are going to be better than THT? Based on what exactly? You do know statistically the odds are very very much against you right? Even Hendricks, who statistically again has a much better chance of being an NBA starter than either of the other 2 still has a statistically much lower chance of being better than THT. So yeah the potential is there, and how many players have made millions on potential and never once had even a hint at being as good as THT already is. The answer would be most players that enter the NBA, by the way.
Bench creator / wildcard / defensive pest are all good roles that need to be filled. I think the Jazz are likely to turn the keys over to Keyonte George at some point this season and will keep THT over Dunn - unless Trader Danny gets an offer he can’t refuse.
I see your point but still our views differ.
Really they both won it because they won the ultimate player lottery and lucked into a couple of all-world players. Again luck has a lot to do with it. I doubt that Jokic or Giannis would be scrubs somewhere else. They would still have been great. Championships are won through luck in the draft, or smart roster building, and mostly both. We had 2 fantastic players, so we had the luck in the draft before, but we sucked at roster building so we blew it all up. Now we brought in the roster building guru in the hopes that he can build the right roster. But odds are very much against any of the 3 we drafted this year becoming the next Giannis. So hopefully Danny can pull a rabbit out of his hat.
Well we already have a good one in Lauri.
Prior to the Collins move (where we had maybe too much cap space to know what to do with relative to the trade upside) I would’ve wanted him to opt in but now I wish he hadn’t.
Fitting the timeline is more than just age. It is also about their stock. Is it rising, falling, or staying steady, or likely to do one of those, over the next 5-6 years. For our guys, Clarkson's stock is high and rising. He will be in demand as a free agent. We will therefore likely be overpaying to keep him when the rest of our guys are ready to go. So he will likely not be kept. Olynyk's stock is steady. He is a known variable. So a team somewhere would like to have him, but no one is throwing $50 mill per year at him that is for sure. So he is likely to be on a relatively team-friendly deal in 5 years or so. Dunn is like Olynyk right now, although his stock is rising a bit more. But he still has a lot to prove. But likely by the time he gets his stock going up his age will catch up with him, and it will all level out. Therefore he is also likely to be on a team-friendly deal in that time frame. So for me, I could see us holding onto Dunn and even KO, as when we are ready to go, we will need some savvy vets like them in those spots to give us that depth needed for a strong regular season and a deep playoff run. And they are likely to be relatively affordable at that time. Clarkson I would imagine will cost too much and take too much away from the young guys we need to get ready to go in that time frame. So keeping Dunn and KO at least for now I think is a good idea. But as much as I love Clarkson, he kind of doesn't fit long term for this team, so he probably needs to be moved for other assets if possible.
Sorry, some of us have a longer attention span than TikTok. I know more than 3 words are hard to grasp for some folks though.
