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I'm saying that the total evidence suggests he's probably closer to an 80% FT shooter and this is just bad luck. But it's disconcerting even though it's probably just bad luck.

Ehh, I view 3-5 in this class as pretty bad. And 6-10 are just fine. 11-20 is good, but it's top 2 pick or bust.

IIRC, he shot well from the line during high school.

If we don't get a top 2 pick, the season absolutely was a waste. The goal is maximizing the odds that the season was not a waste.

Ace is down to 55% from the line. .... What? I'm guessing most of this is just randomness, but man.

Ainge has to trade Sexton soon or this season is going to end up being a complete waste.

We're getting to the cool zone where Ainge refuses to add pieces to make the team good because he thinks he's getting ripped off but Ainge refuses to trade Collin Sexton to tank because he thinks he's getting ripped off. You do not need to "win" every trade, man.

They are where they are because they pulled off the greatest trade of all time and got SGA and Jalen Williams and more picks for Paul George. I don't know how replicable "pull off the greatest trade of all time and get a top 3 player in the NBA and a ton of other assets" is.

Flagg back up to a respectable 54% TS% and a nutty 13.4 BPM. Everything looking pretty good statistically other than the 30% from three. Hopefully that gets up to like 32-33% by the end of the year. The higher the better, obviously.

Hardy's constant "don't want to guard the three point line too closely" comments HAVE to be him trying to throw games. We're giving up so many threes and are historically bad at defense. "Don't want to guard KAT too close from three" I think we need to just give up fewer threes in general, man.

... No? The only upcoming picks after this year are 2027 Cavs pick 2027 Wolves pick Protected 2027 Lakers pick 2029 Cavs pick Protected 2029 Wolves pick As well as unlikely swaps in 2026 and 2028. There's basically only three high upside picks left after trading away the whole team so...

Flagg and VJ both made jumpshots yesterday, please keep doing that. Denim needs to start actually making shots again.

I'm mostly concerned with how intentionally bad Hardy's defensive schemes are, it makes really hard to evaluate how good Walker is. The Jazz are one of the worst defensive teams of all time this year.

Following CBB is so weird because 95% of the games before January feel like glorified preseason basketball. It also felt like there was basketball no CBB over the last two weeks due to winter break. Sorry college students, I need to scout prospects.

To be clear, he's talking about tanking for the next three years to get two guys the caliber of like Paolo and Franz and then the team will be good starting in 2031 because it takes three years for those caliber of player to generally develop. But this is not something Sexton will re-sign for...

Locke talking today about the Jazz tanking until 2031 and how the Jazz maybe are thinking that they should keep Sexton for when they finally stop tanking in 2031. Man, he's going to be 32 and he's 6'1".

I think it's just the degree of terribleness of Collier and Cody that is making their minutes stand out. Isaiah Collier has made 27 baskets this year... He has committed 55 turnovers. I don't know if there's a single rotation player in NBA history that has more turnovers than made field goals...

While the turnovers are horrible, the Jazz are offensively OK (20th). No one is expecting Walker to elevate a team with defensive coaching and personnel this bad to like top 15, but dead last by a mile is a little discouraging.

lol, Hollinger called out Hardy in The Athletic for playing Collier and Cody Williams so much. He says they're easily the two worst players in the NBA and they're just being used as tank commanders by Hardy. He says the only reason this isn't brought up more is because Utah is such a small...

The Jazz with Gobert never finished worse than 14th in defense and were usually top 7.