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This is the April lineup.

My starters: Kessler - Markkanen - Bailey - Williams - Clayton. The reasoning: the Jazz will not be able to trade Lauri or Kessler and they will force-feed minutes to Ace, Cody and Clayton to see what they have and to secure much needed losses. The Jazz would love starting Hendricks but they...

Let's try and predict who will be starting for the Jazz at the end of the 2025/26 season ( in the late February/beginning of March) by factoring in the expected players development, injuries, trades etc. In 7 months we can review the predictions and crown our well-deserving prophet(s)!

I am a bit surprised that nobody picked him up. He seemed to fell off the facer of the Earth after the Jazz released him. I really hope he can find a new home in the NBA.

I like Flip and enjoy seeing his progress. However, I am still hesitant about his long-term future on the Jazz. Yes, he will be probably good as the third - fourth big coming off the bench. But ideally your 3rd/4th big should be able to step up when your starter get injured and hold the fort for...

With players like Springer if you have to ask yourself "should my team extend or guarantee his contract?" - the answer is always "no". Teams churn through these players looking for diamonds in the rough who could use the opportunity to rapidly improve and become clear rotation players. If they...

Well, Curry and Brunson are good examples of players who overcame their size limitations with immense skills. If you think that WCJ will be equally skilled then his future is very bright. His biggest hurdle is to develop a true PG skillset as he seems to be a combo guard, i.e. the shooting guard...

I disagree. Rubio had his own warts but he was a 34% 3PT and 80% FT shooter in his rookie year. And he was a much better passer as well (>8 APG on a team with many capable passers).

Athleticism by itself means nothing: it is just the tool allowing players to control a lot of horizontal and vertical space on the court. Athleticism is simply the ability to move your outstretched hands quickly up and down. And Clayton does have a problem there. His standing reach is the 5th...

Whoever played 49 for the Jazz was epically bad: he has hands worse than Gobert. Also, Cody is surprisingly good in passing out of the double team.

The game is slowing down for him a bit - as it should for a second-year player. And because of that Cody is able to leverage his length and first step.

Tonje will probably take Juzang's minutes and he will probably be an upgrade over Johnny.

He was dead tired by the end of the game and I was surprised they kept him in.

He gives me Luka Samanic vibes. Selfish and overconfident.

Where did you get this impression from? Do you mean "wants to do the right thing" on everything but defense? Because I am sure his coaches tried to play better defense but he is very obviously ignoring them. He did not become entrenched as one of the worst NBA defenders due to his physical...