Trade Rumors Involving the Jazz

[YoungJefe]

His game is predicated off Gobert getting him open.

You're a clown

 

[YoungJefe]

Conley, Rudy and Bojan are so well known for their end to end speed and athleticism.

While Royce is afraid to dribble. If Clarkson gets it, he has to shoot within two dribbles, and he sucks from 50 feet.

Makes for great transition basketball....

Rudy is the only reason Don was good too btw, these dudes are racist clowns.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Its crazy when you got Lopo and Jefe blocked you got threads with like 3 post on a page lmao and you miss nothing of substance.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Its crazy when you got Lopo and Jefe blocked you got threads with like 3 post on a page lmao and you miss nothing of substance.

It’s glorious.

 

[stitches]

Conley, Rudy and Bojan are so well known for their end to end speed and athleticism.

While Royce is afraid to dribble. If Clarkson gets it, he has to shoot within two dribbles, and he sucks from 50 feet.

Makes for great transition basketball....

Rudy - 95th percentile (7% frequency)
Conley - 24th percentile (8% frequency)
Bojan - 44th percentile (22% frequency)
Clarkson 47th percentile (14% frequency)
Mitchell 25th percentil (15% frequency)

(those are from this season)

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

He's the biggest reason we've been bad in transition though. there's plenty of teams who arent great athletically who excel in transition off the 3. Don is a serial walk the ball up the court guy tho.

I guess so... I just think you would need other guys running too and we have had very little athleticism. I'm sure he shares in that but I'm not sure its 100% his fault... he may walk it up because you can't do 1 on 3 fast breaks.

 

[YoungJefe]

Rudy - 95th percentile (7% frequency)
Conley - 24th percentile (8% frequency)
Bojan - 44th percentile (22% frequency)
Clarkson 47th percentile (14% frequency)
Mitchell 25th percentil (15% frequency)

(those are from this season)

Should've put Rudy at PG

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It's not about volume. It's about success when you actually do it. In essence when he tried to score in transition he was not good at it.

Oh... that's not good.

 

[Elizah Huge]

I don’t know the stats on this but I’d be interested in seeing Donovan’s finishing at the rim and around 3-feet compared to some other stars. I feel like he will make some really good moves and fails to finish easier shots at times. Could be totally wrong here.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Rudy - 95th percentile (7% frequency)
Conley - 24th percentile (8% frequency)
Bojan - 44th percentile (22% frequency)
Clarkson 47th percentile (14% frequency)
Mitchell 25th percentil (15% frequency)

(those are from this season)

Royce and House were both good in transition.

 

[KqWIN]

THe weirdest thing is just how bad Mitchell has been in transition. Those stats are actually insane when you consider how athletic and explosive he used to play. Here are his percentiles in transitions since entering the league:

-2017/2018 - 38.1 percentile
-2018/2019 - 13.2 percentile
-2019/2020 - 9.5 percentile
-2020/2021 - 24.5 percentile
-2021/2022 - 24.6 percentile

Those stats are bonkers. It's kind of hard to believe it when you see it. This is one of the things that's holding back Mitchell the most... the play type that most superstars excel at and bump up their efficiency with is the one where Mitchell struggles with the most. He's actually really good at the hard parts of offensive creation.... but the really easy stuff he needs massive improvements with.

He can only jump off two feet, he's explosive side to side and vertically when he can jump off two, but this is no surprise because he can't run and dunk. Don also isn't the type of player to hustle down the court to run to the corner either, which is where you can be efficient in transition. He's low in efficiency, but his volume isn't very high either.

Having said all that....I actually think this is one of the reasons why Mitchell is underrated as an offensive player. Many players will get a lot of points in transition and boost their scoring/efficiency that way. That's obviously a good thing, but it also means that they're taking a lot of the easy baskets that would have still been scored if it wasn't them. Devin Booker is one of the best transition players in the game, but how much better does he make the team's transition as a whole? Mitchell's efficiency isn't the best obviously, but he is one of the best at doing the "hard" things. Mitchell isn't as good at transition, but he's much better at scoring in the tough ways and to me that's way more preferable. Not something you would notice just looking at a player's raw TS%.

 

[stitches]

I don’t know the stats on this but I’d be interested in seeing Donovan’s finishing at the rim and around 3-feet compared to some other stars. I feel like he will make some really good moves and fails to finish easier shots at times. Could be totally wrong here.

Yes, there are some really easy pickings to be had with Donovan's efficiency. He does pretty much all the hardest things really well. But the easy stuff needs improvement - he needs to get to the line more, he needs to improve in transition, he needs to improve on cuts.

Look at those stats:
Isolation - 83d percentile (9% frequency)
PnR ballhandler - 88th percentile(47.5% frequency!!!!!!!!!!!! This is actually insane PnR volume ... but he's really good at it)

Those are elite numbers for a primary ballhandler and offensive creator. But he doesn't even have enough volume on cuts to qualify for the stat. And his transition numbers have been bad for the entirety of his career.

BTW just checked his finishing around the rim - it's actually pretty good - 71% this last season... this is great for a guard.