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Like I said, the Jazz have the perfect base for a heliocentric offensive super-star.

Walker Kessler's career trajectory would be dramatically impacted by playing with Trae Young. Like an insane amount.
 
Per a Hollinger Article

For instance, trading Danuel House’s $4.31 million deal would get the Sixers a mere $24,060 below the tax line, leaving just enough change in the sofa to sign a 15th roster player for the playoffs on the last day of the season. If they want a bit more breathing room, dealing Korkmaz’s $5.3 million deal also could make sense. Because these players make real money, any transaction would likely cost the Sixers a second-round pick, and their list of partners is limited to those with a mid-sized trade exception.

Trading KO for either Morris straight up or RoCo and Kormaz nets the sixers big time money - like 20M. That costs at least one second alone. Adding a rotation piece like KO is worth at least one good second (Hollinger said 2 in his article).

KO to Philly and 3 second rounders. On draft night we will parlay that into a pick in the 20s (if we want to).
 
Is a Trae/Lauri/Kessler core that much better than Rudy/Donovan? Guess it depends on the supporting players.

I actually enjoy watching Trae but he's getting paid $40+ mil per season to play one end of the court.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Like I said, the Jazz have the perfect base for a heliocentric offensive super-star.
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I would probably be down if he were a heliocentric offensive superstar rather than a heliocentric offensive really good player. Superstars tend to be on the all star team yearly. He misses the all star game more than he makes it.


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As annoying as Trae Young is, he is undoubtedly one of the best offensive players in the league. I wouldn't necessarily say the Jazz are beggars, but when trying to make a star layer trade the Jazz aren't exactly choosers either. Trae Young is not ideal....but chances of us trading for the ideal player are extremely low. The ideal player may never become available in the first place.

I'm curious as to how Hardy would use him. We are the least PnR dominant team in the NBA iirc. I'm sure that would change with Trae to some degree. I wouldn't say Hardy is 100% the guy for the future anyways.
 
Whatever feeling you have about Trae, there is no nearly available super-star out there who makes sense for Utah currently. You should look to capitalize on the negative PR he has taken as a gettable super-star who isnt going to cost you an inflated price.


Trae has had the same level of playoff success that the Jazz have produced for the last 26 years. One conference finals appearance. He's a perfect fit next to Lauri/Walker.

You give up Keyonte/Hendricks and 3 first and you still have a huge cache of picks to go out and get another borderline all-star type of player to put next to Lauri/Trae.

You keep Simone, sign him to a nice long-term deal. You get Grimes. You trade for DFS. You sign Dunn long-term. You have a really good foundation to build upon and a lot of room to make changes as the years go on.
 
HeatCheck said:
Is a Trae/Lauri/Kessler core that much better than Rudy/Donovan? Guess it depends on the supporting players.

I actually enjoy watching Trae but he's getting paid $40+ mil per season to play one end of the court.
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If it's better then it's one of the best teams in franchise history and you do it 100/100 times seeing as you would still have assets leftover to make more moves.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Whatever feeling you have about Trae, there is no nearly available super-star out there who makes sense for Utah currently. You should look to capitalize on the negative PR he has taken as a gettable super-star who isnt going to cost you an inflated price.


Trae has had the same level of playoff success that the Jazz have produced for the last 26 years. One conference finals appearance. He's a perfect fit next to Lauri/Walker.

You give up Keyonte/Hendricks and 3 first and you still have a huge cache of picks to go out and get another borderline all-star type of player to put next to Lauri/Trae.

You keep Simone, sign him to a nice long-term deal. You get Grimes. You trade for DFS. You sign Dunn long-term. You have a really good foundation to build upon and a lot of room to make changes as the years go on.
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This is a good post. Except you keep calling him a superstar.

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I wouldn't be super excited about watching Trae's defense every game, but I would be happy that the team was moving in a direction and would agree that a Trae/Lauri offense allows for constructing the roster around them with defensive specialists.

I would prefer we try and build around two way players though (I do consider Lauri a two way player).
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I wouldn't be super excited about watching Trae's defense every game, but I would be happy that the team was moving in a direction and would agree that a Trae/Lauri offense allows for constructing the roster around them with defensive specialists.

I would prefer we try and build around two way players though (I do consider Lauri a two way player).
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Trae making Walker a 30 MPG player would actually boost Utah's defense more than the negative effect of having Trae. I dont think the difference between Sexton/Trae is all that meaningful on D. Sexton can huff and puff all he wants he's still a bad defender.

By all accounts, he has improved his defense this year.
 
I personally don't like Trae's style of foul baiting. But if Jazz would trade for him, it would be ok. It would for the least give a real playoffs series for the Jazz. And if it's not good enough, he could be moved later on. One of the biggest pros would be allow this team to see how good actually our bigs are with a more competent pg.
 
Step-Back Lauri said:
I personally don't like Trae's style of foul baiting. But if Jazz would trade for him, it would be ok. It would for the least give a real playoffs series for the Jazz. And if it's not good enough, he could be moved later on. One of the biggest pros would be allow this team to see how good actually our bigs are with a more competent pg.
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I'm sure once he got on your team all the fouls you thought were bait would become legitimate good drawn fouls.

See how we react to Sexton spamming the "run into the side of a defender" trick over and over again.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
I don't know how you trade a guy who wants to be here, when there are so few around. If he'd take bit of a cut on his next contract to stay here ( highly unlikely) why not sign him and keep his versatility? I know he's supposedly out of the timeline but shorten his minutes and have him for emergencies. He seems like a great locker room guy and he's easy to like. His defense is questionable but with the right guys around him maybe it works.
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I agree. Every team needs players who do the kind of things KO does. However, we traded a HOF player who wanted to be here when we could have traded Donny and made a run at building around Rudy.
 
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