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I don't think it's a difficult trade to make at all. The Jazz might not want to do that and might not value any FA's this summer enough to care about paying for clearing out cap space. But they can move Alec if they want.

Ok I could see that, actually. I was kind of assuming you pick up a 4 on the market with the free money, but sure if Favs is gone then keeping all of them would probably work. I do really like all 3 guys.

The Jazz can trade Burks with a second round pick as an expiring contract most likely this year. Or they could package him with Bradley or one of our better 1+1 assets (who I think are redundant) if a team is interested. It's a lot easier to trade a guy who only has one year left as opposed to...

No you'd be paying on what you've seen in his development every day even though he has missed a bunch of games. As a GM you have seen him up close for 4 years. You are no longer paying him solely (or even mostly) on his draft position. If you listen to what the JAzz say they are high on his...

Lol. I mean the problem is kind of a minutes crunch at some point. If Thabo was still playing I guess Jerebko wouldn't be getting minutes, or maybe Royce. I think DL went a little bit overboard with the depth this year, personally. It worked out because we had some injuries and trades, but I...

Hope is a loaded word that you are using as a fan. As a GM you could simply project that he will be good having more info than the fans. Either way if you are a GM and don't think he'll actually be good there's no reason to pay him anything else. You should move on rather than give him a deal...

I think it's more complicated than that. They can renounce a couple guys this year. I renounced Thabo (don't really need him with Crowder imo) and Traded Bradley and Burks and I had over 15 MIllion in Cap space after signing Exum to 10 million a year (which I think is around the high end he'll...

To me there's no reason to sign Exum to a short deal. Either cut bait with him now or try to get him on a long deal if you believe in him. It seems like you just don't believe in him and are trying to play a middle ground scenario there. The problem with that is that we lose either way. If he's...

I'm probably just not as high on Favs as others. I think you could get something much better for that money even for one season. I guess if we tried and struck out with some big FA's this summer and Favs was still around I might be ok with this, but I still wonder if targeting a couple smaller...

Favors at 25 Million is a gigantic overpay. I don't see why the Jazz would do that. Exum at 8 is an overpay as well if we are paying for his current production, but he's younger and you only pay him that much or more if you are confident gambling on his development. I can't imagine the Jazz...

Dante Exum's best game is an average John Stockton game.

The situations are totally different though. Dante was a raw prospect that has been injured and last played NBA games coming off an ACL at the same age as Donovan (who might be on a HOF trajectory right now). I mean there are a lot of great levels of player between bad, and Donovan Mitchell's...

What does this even mean? They are completely different kinds of players. Comparing a good Dante and Mitchell game is a bizarre thing to try to do right now.

This is the opinion that I was talking about with my post. I think it's possible that you are correct. Mitchell should be a good case study in this because he seems to have everything you would need to be a popular NBA player that gets endorsements and shoe deals etc. I think a big part of...

I think calling Dante confused is pretty unfair. Again this was a narrative that was put out there by Locke and others to explain why Dante was getting benched. Every player gets out of position occasionally, and every player gets drawn into fouls. We just focused on every single mistake Dante...

Yep that's just one metric and obviously includes a lot of noise but his impact is at the top of the heap when he's healthy.

I don't really buy point #1. I don't think his contract has anything to do with him playing. I think Quin was just trying to let him play through his issues and it would have looked kind of bad to bench a guy in the first half of his first season here when they were talking about him being a...

Dante's mistakes were WAAAY overblown last year. I have pointed this out time and again but he had something like 10 bad pass TO's all of last season. I'm sorry but his mistakes were incredibly magnified last year by the fanbase. I've never seen anything quite like it. The truth is that Quin (in...

Nobody is saying heavy minutes. 15-20 is a reserve role and is fine to start. If he plays great we can talk about increasing them. I think the key is to actually let him play consistent minutes instead of jerking them around if he makes a few mistakes. In that way Quin needs to treat him like...

Burks and Neto. Neto has averaged about 12.5 MPG so all of those should immediately go to Exum. Then Alec has been playing backup 2 so whatever minutes are there should be going to Dante as well. I think between 15-20 minutes for the rest of the season is fine. We have Royce on a deal for 3...