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Not that much, actually. The frontcourt (Kessler, Collins, Lauri, Hendricks, Flip) is pretty solid. What we need is to add two competent guards who can play defense and pass. And one of them can be even homegrown if Collier develops a better jump shot over the summer. Or if, say the Jazz draft...

I heard this statement several times, but is it true. If we look at the actual playoff record the Deron-Boozer Jazz had three deep playoff runs ( advanced to the second round two times, and went to the Conference Finals once), while the Mitchell-Gobert Jazz had just two deep runs (both ended in...

One small correction: every promotion that Austin had in the NBA came from his dad. He has not been promoted/hired away in the brief period when Ainge was not his boss in 2021-25. Of course, you may think it is pure coincidence and that Austin has been great at the front office jobs but...

Well, one thing is at least clear: Ainge has no real interest in putting the Jazz' interests first and in making everything to improve them. Unless you truly believe that out of all people working in the NBA the best person for this job "just happens" to be his son. I would not be surprised...

Dude, for all of his coaching career Austin was pulled forward by daddy. After his college graduation he spent a year as an assistant coach at Southern Utah (which he most likely also got through his dad's connections) and in 2009, 2 years after graduating he was already coaching the Maine Red...

Yes, this is a very important advantage. The other one that both of those teams have is that most of their players are big for their positions. One of the downfalls of NY was that Brunson, Hart and McBride were a bit small and had to play through this disadvantage. If you look at Utah there are...

No. Springer played just a handful of games over several NBA seasons, 5 MPG for Boston this season and 7MPG the season before. He mostly played garbage minutes throughout his NBA career and because of that has no meaningful experience of playing in the games that matter and with players who matter.

No, this sounds like dumb tanking when you keep enough quality vets to be semi-good and, as a result, have to torpedo the development of young guys to scrape out the losses. The proper tanking means having only a couple of quality role players (like Dunn) who can teach the defense and offense to...

I mean, there is probably some hapless assistant coach who keeps mumbling about defense... but everyone, from players to the coach and Ainge are happily tuning him out.

I remember who 2 years ago everybody was sure that Lauri perfectly fits our rebuild timeline and should be retained at any cost.... Not anymore. I guess in two years we will start talking that Kessler does not fit it either and needs to get traded.

It's like, who the young Jazz guards and wings will learn from about playing tough defense? Juzang? Sexton? We have absolutely no one on the team at the 1-3 positions who knows how to play the NBA-level defense.

Oh, so you want Jerry Sloan and his brand of scrappy players playing hard and being held responsible for the low effort and defensive lapses? No, you will not get it. You will get more Hardy, who always encouraged careless shooting away of Keyonte and Brice and did not care about winning - and...

Remember Jeremy Evans?

"it's tough to predict what they will be after 4-5 years" is true for almost all players drafted every year, because they are so young. But, interestingly it is very rare when teams with high picks trade them for a collection of much smaller picks "to have more bites at the apple". Usually it is...

I already posted about it: Lauri has always been very injury-prone, way before he came to the Jazz. Since he came into the league he missed more games than AD. He played 61 games in his only season with CLE, and before that when he was on the Bulls he played 68 games as a rookie (his highest...

So, the solutions to it is to trade away a potential perennial All-Star who will be cost controlled for 4 years for a player on a max contract who never played in the playoffs and just posted a 19-8 season? For a player who is injured more often than Anthony Davis? They may consider trading...

Almost all these trades are just an exercise in "how can we get a top 3 pick for peanuts"?

One thing we can count on is that Cody will add weight/strength: even during the season he looked (and played) noticeably stronger at the end compared to his first month. The guy lifts. Now, in terms of developing his skills and becoming more aggressive...there is way more uncertainty in there.

You have it a bit backwards. You don't draft a player at 5 to compensate for the defensive shortcomings of your middling young prospects. Instead, you try to find a core player in the top 5 and build the team around his strengths and weaknesses. If Keyonte and Brice are not willing to play...

The handle is arguably the hardest thing to develop for the players already in the NBA, regardless of their work ethic. There are many incredibly committed 3-and-D players who never managed to develop their dribbling ability.