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How likely do you think it is that the Jazz follow through on the "big game hunting" and stay competitive throughout all of next season, as opposed to having another season similar to this one?
 
who can the jazz reasonably acquire in the offseason that will help them make playoffs
Trae Young is very available. Other than that... I'm not really sure what stars are actually truly available. My read on the market is that the teams who are losing in the playoffs are generally trying to add to their cores rather than by full-blown starting over, with only a couple exceptions among teams with players you probably won't want. Like, the Warriors would probably trade Draymond. Does that make any sense for Utah? To me, no.
 
Probably neither here nor there for what what's coming up, but curious about why the ups and downs of THT's playing time in the last 1/3 of the season (big minutes in game 80 & 81, for example, none in game 82).
 
Have you been approached by SEG or anyone affiliated with media relations to suggest, plead, demand, or decry that you cannot refer to the arena the team plays in with a definite article?
 
Have you been approached by SEG or anyone affiliated with media relations to suggest, plead, demand, or decry that you cannot refer to the arena the team plays in with a definite article?
I have not, thank goodness. I'm the kind of person who tends to lose my mind when media relations gets a bit overzealous. My coworker Alex did an article on it and did hear back mild "we don't think this is a story" complaints — but look, media relations pals, if the f'ing Governor is tweeting about it, it's a story.
 
Probably neither here nor there for what what's coming up, but curious about why the ups and downs of THT's playing time in the last 1/3 of the season (big minutes in game 80 & 81, for example, none in game 82).
No idea in specific those three games, but THT's end of season minutes were much more about what other people were doing than what he was doing. IOW, if Keyonte was approaching the game the right way, Hardy had no problem playing him a ton of minutes. If he wasn't playing his hardest, or was playing selfishly... Hardy tried to make that clear through playing time.
 
Do you listen to Jackpotting Around and would you be gracious enough to hop on the pod again?
 
Do you think Danny Ainge recognizes that the Jazz are now committed to (very) young players and are not really in a position to contend even if they do go "big game hunting"? In other words, do you think he was just being coy in his recent presser?
 
Does Jordan Clarkson play another game for the Jazz?
Everyone seems to think no, and Jordan himself talked about the Jazz in the past tense in his exit interview. It just makes sense for the Jazz to move on from Jordan.

And yet.... Jordan also thought he was being traded this deadline, and wasn't. In the end, the trade market for Clarkson has just been super super soft. And I get it! If I'm any kind of analytically oriented GM, I'm not buying a 32 year old with bottom-end eFG% numbers at anything above a MLE. Random scorer dudes are always available — see, IDK, Kelly Oubre on the minimum. Your hope is that Clarkson rebounds his value next year, but if I'm another team, I'm letting the Jazz take that risk.

In the end, I don't think there will be a buyer, and he ends up in his same role for the Jazz next year. But if not, I think the team that trades for Jordan Clarkson won't take him on to acquire Jordan Clarkson, but as salary ballast in a larger move.
 
Do you think Danny Ainge recognizes that the Jazz are now committed to (very) young players and are not really in a position to contend even if they do go "big game hunting"? In other words, do you think he was just being coy in his recent presser?
I don't think he was being coy in the presser, I think he was being honest. I also don't think he's *that* committed to the very young players. Like, he's what they have right now and they'll do the best that they can to develop them and he likes them more than, say, other prospects in last year's draft... but I don't think he's attached to this being the core of the future or anything.
 
Do you listen to Jackpotting Around and would you be gracious enough to hop on the pod again?
My embarrassing thing is I listen to no podcasts... any of them that have content I want to listen to I just upload into our transcription service (Otter) and then read. I like reading as a way to get information faster! That being said, I did do that for the Tony episode of Jackpotting around.

And as you guys know, I read here fairly often. Usually not often enough to respond to threads in the moment, but I'll catch up on the discussion every, IDK, couple weeks. Especially true during trade deadline or draft/FA time when you sometimes have creative ideas.

But yeah I'll jump on. It was fun the first time, and you guys asked smart questions.
 
Everyone seems to think no, and Jordan himself talked about the Jazz in the past tense in his exit interview. It just makes sense for the Jazz to move on from Jordan.

And yet.... Jordan also thought he was being traded this deadline, and wasn't. In the end, the trade market for Clarkson has just been super super soft. And I get it! If I'm any kind of analytically oriented GM, I'm not buying a 32 year old with bottom-end eFG% numbers at anything above a MLE. Random scorer dudes are always available — see, IDK, Kelly Oubre on the minimum. Your hope is that Clarkson rebounds his value next year, but if I'm another team, I'm letting the Jazz take that risk.

In the end, I don't think there will be a buyer, and he ends up in his same role for the Jazz next year. But if not, I think the team that trades for Jordan Clarkson won't take him on to acquire Jordan Clarkson, but as salary ballast in a larger move.
So Clarkson and Collins for Chris Paul, Moses Moody and a second.
 
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