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Your first point is a great point. Don't see him as a guy that will stick it out with 1 franchise for his career. More like a guy that will ask out if things aren't going right. But, maybe I am misreading him and he just loves 1 team like Haliburton? I would be cautious, maybe hire some...

Trading Kessler or Lauri for a top 10 pick, maybe 76ers at 3 or the Pelicans at 7. It's hard to say, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility. It would be fun to have both as the foundation of the team. There would be so many oops.

But what if we got both Kon and Maluach?

Not sure what your expecting, he averaged a double double 16/10 on 59/33/67. Also don't think he was the focus of the team, was 5th on the team in fga. And from the stuff I watch of his team, it was a pretty basic offense. Often times they would throw it to him in the post and stand around the...

Long interview with Kon on the Bill Simmons podcast View: https://youtu.be/wh4yZZQkY-w?si=w1ZCeje017zYiTOk&t=5575

Jeez, Kon just says all the right things in an interview. Ultimate team player type of guy. I can see him impressing people in meetings. Here is an interview of Kon https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2025/06/17/kon-knueppel-nba-draft-duke-basketball-bill-simmons-cooper-flagg/84241766007/

What has made you change your mind? Have some secret intel for us?

Found an interesting author (claims to be a sports data scientist who has worked for the Hornets) who wrote about how Tre Johnson is overvalued. Compared him to Cam Thomas Thought he brought up some good points. https://nikoza2.substack.com/p/a-tre-tise-on-a-bucket-getter He also has some...

If Kon can shoot 64% TS, play team basketball, defend and rebound like he did in college; I don't care how vanilla he looks doing it.

It's a fair concern. I will say one of Will Hardy's strengths is catering his offense towards the strengths of his players. If we do draft Ace, I think Hardy will give Ace plenty of shots to get him into a groove and hope to play him through his 'selfishness' (don't think this is quite the right...

I wasn't optimistic on Ace's skillset in the first place and the more I hear about him, the less I want the Jazz to draft him. Fair enough if he had some Cooper Flagg level season, dominating and leading his team to a high seed in March Madness but he didn't. He performed inconsistently for a...

Also shoots 46% on non-rim 2s, same as Ace Bailey.

KCP just had a down year in Orlando, he was supposed to fix all the shooting problems they were having and complement the core players. I am of the belief that Orlando needed to fundamentally shift what they were doing offensively. They had one of the worst offenses in the league last year. But...

I don't think Bane has performed all that notably in the playoffs.

Bane's contract is not that far of Lauri's. 36 million/year vs. 46 million/year. Not a small difference but not a large one. Still a ton of money either way.

Orlando's core 4 is: Paolo, Franz, Suggs, Bane. Think they will be a 2nd apron when Paolo gets the Max. If Paolo makes All-NBA and gets the Super Max then it's going to get insane money wise.

Locks them into 2nd apron hell when Paolo gets his extension and while Bane is a very good player, I don't think he is quite what they need.

Pretty sure Yang was in Utah for a workout.

I don't watch Memphis that much but there is no way Bane is that good, right? 4 Firsts?!?!? Jesus.....

We can go by some guys recently drafted (in their last college season): 7'4" Edey - 18.1% ORB / 25.4% DRB / 22% TRB / SR 7'2" Clingan - 13.8% ORB / 23.5 DRB / 19% TRB / SO 7'0" Ware - 7.9% ORB / 26% DRB / 17.5% TRB / SO 7'1" Lively - 12.4% ORB / 17.8% DRB / 15.2% TRB / FR 6''11" Duren - 14%...