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Brown looks really good to me. Like really good. I like that he plays below the rim despite having a 40” vertical leap. Hes very crafty, can score at all 3 levels, and he’s lights out.
 
Jazz are kind of stuck in a catch 22. Would you rather trade Lauri and give yourself a chance at a generational guy, or keep Lauri and draft someone in the second tier which is like drafting someone from the first tier in most drafts?
 
Jazz are kind of stuck in a catch 22. Would you rather trade Lauri and give yourself a chance at a generational guy, or keep Lauri and draft someone in the second tier which is like drafting someone from the first tier in most drafts?

That's not how I would phrase it, at all. In any scenario our most likely draft positioning will be 5+. Trading Lauri increases our odds at a top 3 pick, but far from guarantees it. Trading Lauri should certainly guarantee we get a pick in the 5-8 range though, whereas if we keep Lauri and continue to play it straight there is a real chance we lose the pick altogether.

I also wouldn't consider anyone in this draft generational, at least not yet. I also think it's too early to really say what the next tier is like. It looks very good, but I don't think it's first tier in a normal draft good.
 
Keep Lauri, keep Kessler
Try to keep the top 8 pick
Even 6,7,8 pick may turn out to be a great player
Then go for playoffs next year
 
Say we keep Lauri and decide to run it with baby Ace, Bambi Brown, cool hand keynote, and the rest of the band of merry men… our window is 31 - 34 year old Lauri as the youngsters figure it out? Is Lauri good enough to take us to the promised land? I guess it gives us a shot before ace and the 5 - 8 pick decide to leave for the big city lights in 6 years.
 
If we trade Lauri now I think we could definitely have a bottom 3 record meaning we would have a 40.1% chance at a top 3 pick and a 100% chance at keeping our pick.

If we don't trade Lauri it's more difficult to predict, but for now I'm going to say we end up with the 7th worst record. That would mean we would have a 23.4% chance at a top 3 pick and an 85.8% chance at keeping our pick.

So by Trading Lauri we can increase our chance at a potentially franchise changing player by 16.7% and increase our chance at a very good player by 14.2%.
 
Caleb Wilson looks like what we were looking for in Cody and Taylor, sadly, they're both busts.
Cody's lack of confidence in his shot definitely seems to limit his upside to D only. Taylor though, I think its too early yet. Give him time to regain form and then we'll see. It is concerning that he seems to have gone backward on his motor...
 
If we trade Lauri we going to be tanking for 3 more years. No ****ing thanks.

I don't think this is necessarily true, it's probably putting a delay on the playoff run though. If we trade Lauri, I think we'd be about where CHO is currently. We don't trade Lauri and we're more similar to where POR is.
 
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