And he’s getting serviceable on the offensive end, while our other players aren’t even serviceable on the defensive end. He’s actually going to be a long term rotation player in the NBA if he stays on this trajectory, which is probably more than most of us could have hoped for after his rookie...
Other than Keyonte its 100% coaching. Lots of players on the roster are capable, and even Keyonte could be much better, but through either incompetence or uncaring, the coaching staff hasn’t made D part of their priorities- if minutes depended on your defensive effort, they would be distributed...
Their multitude of bigs can handle and ours can’t really.
Lauri right now just gumming up the flow the others had been developing- it’ll take awhile to get things working with so many similar players.
Hardy has been softer on Key verbally than ANY of his non-veteran players- with the leadership role he’s taken in the offseason, which will be hard to continue if he’s coming off the bench, and his improved passing, and Hardy’s lack of caring/emphasis on D, I just think he’ll proomote Key up as...
Key -> Collier -> Clayton
Brice-> Svi -> Harkless
Ace -> Williams -> Niang -> Tonje
Lauri -> Hendricks -> Love
Kessler -> Flip -> Nurkic
Least confident about Hendricks- he could easily start, just think Ace it going to get the nod, but could see Ace dropping to SG and bumping Brice to make...
My biggest takeaway though, is that we may have ‘hit’ at a much higher rate than we have any right to, and that is why the Lauri trade background noises have pumped up again. So many young quality swing players have basically made Lauri a luxury good - he’s just older enough that he isn’t really...
You try the various combos in preseason- but honestly I would be shocked if coach doesn’t include Key regardless of what’s happens on the court. He has consistently believed in him above and beyond what he has shown in games and singled him out for more praise and less criticism vs his other...
That would be the most Jazz draft thing ever to get bumped to ninth by one of our swap-mates winning the lottery and us losing the ability to take it from them...
If you take the best case for every Jazz player and worst case for most of the other teams, seven is doable, barely.
But yeah, more likely a bit of a troll.
Thing is I wouldn't be surprised if that is just fine- again it isn't like I'm predicting a winning record- but I do predict we have a winning record vs the east and near .500 at home.
We'll be miserable on the road vs the West and out of the playoffs, but we'll definitely NOT have the worst...
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