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I mean, you can ask, but Tari has been straight up better than Lauri this year so they would say no, lol. Again, the ceiling for Lauri is the Pascal Siakam trade. -Top 35 player at best but a clear 2nd or 3rd option. -28 year old PF that some teams may be uncomfortable about having to pay a 4...

Lauri hasn't been good since the trade deadline of last year and the best defense of his bad play is that he's been constantly injured and trying to throw games and this is an uncomfortable defense for a contender thinking of trading for a 7 foot tall guy who is 28 years old and is on a four...

Reed Sheppard is probably worth an early second at this point. I had him as the best prospect in the draft, but he's a huge bust. Whitmore is probably worth an early second as well. Lauri is probably worth an expiring and a mid first. This deal is worth more than Lauri is worth because the...

Embiid had also barely played any basketball by the time he got to Kansas. Everything he did was shocking and you saw him improve dramatically game to game to do things basically no seven footer should be able to do. Tons of mistakes, but tons of "how in the world has this guy only played...

Maluach gets defended a lot with "well, he doesn't get blocks because Duke has him on the perimeter constantly" But man He has 6 steals. ... In the entire season.

Yeah, I'm sure Walker and the Jazz have already agreed to an extension, but the Jazz really need to trade Sexton and Collins. This is going to be a contract year for their last major NBA contract and you shouldn't have them fake injuries.

Lauri is hurt, but I'm pretty sure this is about the Jazz openly mocking the league by listing Walker out with rest and Sarah Todd releasing that article where Jazz sources were like "Yeah, we're tanking next year too, even if we get Flagg." This feels like a warning shot.

I mean, they didn't have to salary dump Favors though if they needed to trade him. It was very possible to combine the salary of Favors and another guy (probably Bogi?) with picks to try to get a wing. Them doing a pure salary dump to open up an MLE to sign a 78 year old Rudy Gay.... Really bad...

IDK, the Derrick Favors salary dump just destroyed my faith that this team will ever seriously try to contend under Smith. The Bucks and Suns were the weakest Finals teams probably in NBA history and instead of going "well, we need a better coach and a better wing, let's fire Quin and trade...

"Do salt of the earth people use the word 'thus', I don't think so!" I don't know, who cares.

Bruh, these aren't even five dollar words in the post you're quoting, these are like 25 cent words, just get a higher reading level, lol.

I would imagine Kyrie misses most of next season and AD asks for a trade away from Dallas this summer. This is the worst situation in NBA history so AD should probably want out.

Ehh, the Jazz had six firsts available to trade after they lost to the Clippers and Ryan Smith instead decided to use those picks to salary dump Favors (who they had massively overpaid the offseason before). The other thing is that the Jazz purposefully chose to not make the playoffs in 2023...

Pretty much locked up the best odds tonight.

Derrick Favors got a ton of post-ups in college simply because he was huge and had good hands and good touch and was much better than other college players so that was the best option for Georgia Tech. In the NBA, he got very few post-ups after his first few years simply because he wasn't good...

Ace is going to have to transition to playing like Lauri in the NBA.

I just don't see Ace as being able to create at all in the NBA. His first step is heinously bad, his handle is bad, and his playmaking is bad. He reminds me of Harrison Barnes in that he can literally do an iso from the triple threat in college, but he's not nearly good enough at it to be...

Ace is also a rough fit if you believe in Lauri, Taylor, or Walker much at all because those three guys are horrible at passing and dribbling and you're adding yet another big man who can't pass or dribble.

Slightly worse Jabari Smith Jr seems like a realistic outcome for Ace. Good but not great shooter, good but not elite defender ( probably worse than Jabari here), fine at rebounding, horrific passer and shot creator.

It would be enough if he was an elite elite elite shooter, but he's just not. He's good but not great at shooting. And he doesn't get nearly as much elevation as MPJ or Durant. I think he's clearly worse than post third back surgery MPJ because his jumpshot and ability to get up jumpshots...