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Kessler really struggled playing against Edey in the first two quarters: his first rebound came with 6 minutes remaining in the Q2 and his offense was also non-existent (scored 2 points). Then Edey is subbed out and Kessler in the next 3 minutes before he sat got 4 rebounds, 4 points, 1 block...

In the last 10 games Charlotte, Toronto, Portland and New Orleans all went 5-5. That was wild, totally unexpected and really helped the Jazz in the tanking Olympics.

That's true. However, in reality both of them primarily play SG for the Jazz because they simply have better options/prospects at both 1 and 3. To be honest, Harkless is really not that good but the Jazz are so horrible on defense that it makes him standing out way more than he deserves. When...

And I feel bad for Juzang but Harkless is obviously stronger and more explosive. If Elijah can reliably shoot at 35%-36% from the three Ainge will gladly kiss goodbye to Johnny.

Neither of them is particularly good, but for a bench piece Svi has a terminal case of thinking he is the major character. And he is not Clarkson to act like that. Harkless, at least, seems to be a hard working guy who wants to listen to coaches and fit in: there is a chance that he can be...

That's a very big "and".

Why do you care?

Another interesting part of this trade is that the Jazz keeps increasing the number of teams who could give the team a very high pick several years from now. Now it is up to 4 teams: the Jazz, Cavs, Wolves, and Suns. Each of them are unlikely to be really bad at that time and net a high pick...

One important angle of this trade is that it reveals the thinking of Ryan Smith, who obviously approved this trade. He is clearly committed to the Jazz long-term: he is not looking for quick gambles and is ready to be patient and slowly build a successful team. Trading upcoming picks for...

So do I. That's why I want Lauri, Sexton and Collins to play and not sit out with mysterious injuries or be shipped out for picks. The success and development of Jazz players and the total, efficient tank are intrinsically at odds with each other.

Too bad Cody went down.: he played great on defense as usual but this game they did not stick him in the corner but let him be close to the action and he was reasonably good. Cody has such a great awareness where to be and how to rotate. When he and Collier played together Utah looked so much...

OK, so tell me what or who do you care about? The Jazz uniforms that are changed every year? Ryan Smith? Because many fans on this board certainly don't care about the players currently playing for their team.

Its really good to see all this growth from our young players. The only thing that is sad is that Taylor should have been one of them.

Collier is playing the best I have ever seen, while Kessler and Keyonte look like two best players on a team that just won a championship.

Here is another fan of WWE.

It looks like people keep confusing tanking with rebuilds. Rebuild means trading away your veterans, drafting a bunch of young players and letting them compete as hard as they can. Tanking, on the other hand, means retaining a bunch of good players but deliberately severely limiting their...

Professional basketball is meaningless at its very core. How is winning the championship changes any live in a meaningful way? You just arbitrarily assign great value to it, that's all. However, trying to win every game does have deep meaning: always trying to do your best, giving it all...

I am confident that the unfortunate epidemic of injuries that befell all of our good vets (Lauri, Collins, Sexton, Clarkson) will continue after the trade deadline. I heard that even Kessler is not immune to that plague.

Collier has been playing 28 MPG in January. How many more minutes does he need to have?

Because he is strictly a perimeter player at the moment, both on offense and defense. There are no rebounding opportunities on the perimeter.