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Hendricks cannot play SF anymore almost certainly. He's like 240 pounds and coming off a broken leg. He'll probably just play very few minutes until Lauri is traded.

Ace does not pass or dribble at all.

The goal is to eat a bad contract at the trade deadline to allow a team to dodge the tax or an apron. The Mavs are almost certainly going to need to dump players to get out of the tax as they have the worst owners in the league so the move is going to be like to absorb Klay to get back some...

The Jazz did try to go Big Game Hunting. By offering Paul George a big contract and not even getting a meeting.

This depends heavily on 1. What we trade Lauri for during the season 2. Whether we extend Kessler before next offseason or wait until next offseason. Those two factors cause the projected cap space to change by more than $70m. If we keep Lauri and extend Kessler at like 5/175, we will have not...

We are absolutely not keeping Lauri, we're nowhere close and Lauri only has a tiny window left that he could hypothetically defend in the postseason.

The Jazz have gone 22-90 since they started their tank and I do wonder what's the worst like 200 or 300 game stretch in NBA history.

The Jazz could have taken on expiring contracts each year instead of doing Collins and Clarkson. Then they would start the offseason with cap space they could then use for a star trade or to take bad salary.

Cool, so the Jazz managed to trade him and Agbaji at the nadir of their value while missing the peak of Lauri's value in a three year time period that was all about trading guys for picks.

The Jazz could have... Just had cap space instead.

Still pretty unreal that the Jazz traded NAW for literally nothing though. NAW was really good for us and young and helped the team we were trying to make lose make back to back WCFs.

The league hates players that don't defend after Boston and OKC won the title. Everyone views the NBA as a weak link league now where your defense is only as good as your worst defender. (This is also extremely bad news for Keyonte and Sensabaugh and maybe bad for Filipowski as well, lol)

Lauri has to show a pulse on defense to start the year or he's going to have zero trade value based on what we've seen this year. Teams are reacting to OKC winning the title by completely deprioritizing bad defenders.

Overall, the Jazz spent $59m a year on Sexton, Collins, and Clarkson over the last three years in an attempt to trade them for picks and netted 0 picks.

1. He probably won't be mobile enough to defend in the postseason at 32, I would be pretty shocked if he was effective in a postseason setting at 32. 2. Yes, they could all be bad... And then we're even further away...

The Jazz brought in one senior who they are keeping and one they are putting on a two way to go along with an incredibly raw 18 year old. But they should not bring in Kuminga as they already have Ace, lol.

Lauri is a seven footer with very extensive injury history, he's not going to be good in 4 years when Hendricks and Ace and their 2026 pick are hopefully good.

What happened here is that Ainge went all-in on guys who couldn't defend immediately before the league decided that these guys are worthless. So that was not great. Should keep SloMo around for 25-30 games to juice Lauri's trade value before moving him.

2023 was a better class than 2025.

No one pays attention to the Jazz at all, we might be the least thought about franchise in basketball right now. There is no pressure.