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I just realized that for several years the Jazz was absolutely obsessed with getting tall SFs that are good on defense. Besides Lauri, they got Agbaji, Fontecchio, Hendricks, Cody, THT, Toscano-Anderson, Ace... The amount of assets that they wasted in the pursuit of that coveted archetype was...

Well, big wings who can playmake and defend are, probably, the hottest commodity in the draft behind unicorn centers like Wemby and the another-Lebron type of prospects. These are guys like Harper, Castle, and Edwards and they are not falling in the 6-8 range. P.S. I am actually talking about...

If we are talking about someone complementing the lineup of Kessler, Lauri, Ace and Keyonte we obviously need a secondary playmaker. That would be Wilson, Brown, Flemings, Philon.

Do you still think so? This year we had quite a few rookies who obviously consistently contribute to wins: Flagg, Harper, Kon... I think that Fears, Queen and VJ are also driving wins by now. The 2025 draft was a really, really good one. Hope the Pelicans will pass the Jazz in a month.

Told you...

Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Wasatch front. Our forces have won a glorious victory.

Would be funny if that will be the first game when Flagg scores 50. A repeat of the last Kobe's game with the Jazz cosplaying as the Generals again.

Dallas is shook.

Flag looks like a superstar on the floor. He will be more than good.

Cody with a beautiful pass to Taylor. Williams is doing everything today.

Clayton is absolutely invisible.

It does look likesomething, but the league-average TS% increased by 2% since then, so Donovan had a league-average TS% back then and Key now is +1.5%. I don't think there is a meaningful difference.

There is so much hand-wringing and despair every time when the Jazz win a game. Because it is such an important year to get a high pick in the loaded draft and the Jazz will not be able to compete with so many blatantly tanking teams. Except I don't see any obvious tanking. Memphis, Dallas and...

And you would be almost certainly wrong. It is very rare that the rookie playing the best ball for the first two months ends up as the best player in the class career-wise. Even the entire rookie year is a bad indicator for the career. Just a reminder, the recent ROYs were MCW, Simmons...

Yes, they will. When Cody takes Svi's minutes, and Flip becomes our designated rim protector and the primary defender of Edey, Clingan and Zubac then the Jazz will be suddenly losing way more games.