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Of course, the problem is that usually you sign a good player to a big contract and he becomes sucky in the lifespan of his contract because of decline, injury, whatever... I get what you are saying though. If when Favors comes back long term it all fits well and the team is really rolling...

Of course, the point is you don't trade Favors "to get better", you trade Favors because you won't be able to keep him once you pay Hayward (max) and Hill (not max but expensive, say 4/70or80 or so) and you need to cash in now to get some pieces (back up defensive big and a youngster + a pick...

Future success and grandeur of the Jazz rest on Gobert being great and therefore healthy. It's as simple as that. If Kawhi gets injured or Lebron or Paul or De Rozan, their team won't be able to contend anymore. It's just normal.

I don't think Hill will get a max contract, but I could see him getting a big contract, say something like 4/70 or so, and that will still have a big real impact.

For me if one looks at the team's salary situation and fit it looks quite clear that Favors is the odd man out. Not because he isn't good, he is very good. But because in terms of best fit of your best players together, out of Gobert, Hayward, Hill and Favors, the combination of 3 that in this...

Simply put, Wilt was one of a kind, something we might never see again, a mule : a guy as big as Gobert but with the agility and speed of a small forward. Really no comparison there even on the purely physical dimension. If you add skills to the conversation than it becomes even less of a...

Diaw has always been like that : he is the type of player who will get depressed if you ask him to shoot the ball 15 times a game, but will excel if he is asked to mix it up and play point forward. That's why he was miserable in Charlotte although he had the green light to be as selfish as he...

exactly, guys like Gobert would get bullied by stronger guys in the old NBA ! He is good in today's NBA because he knows how to defend space, and this what matters : that he can cover ground and alter shots by defending space. But his man to man D is weak in terms of post play, just look at what...

So has his FT shooting...Not saying improvement is impossible, my point is that we shouldn't expect anything spectacular..

So do I, properly used he can be a decent enough contributor on O, which is all is needed considering what he brings on D, my point was just to say that some got overly enthusiastic after a few preseason games about his "new O" whereas he is still the same player and improvements are bound to be...

So guys... What of Gobert's super duper offense stuff ? So far what I see is the same player : massive defensive presence, limited offense and shaky FT shooting.. Still worth his contract tbh because of how he anchors our D, but as for the new O...

At least his play in the preseason is encouraging, this is always a positive. Now let's see what happens in the season. What would really make a difference would be if he could be consistent in his FT shooting, say around 70% that would make him more valuable in the end of games, make him more...

Well thanks Sherlock, since we are in the painfully obvious department, let me say that since the fact that it's preseason doesn't need to be clarified, I don't need to clarify either that nothing is painfully obvious in the NBA until it takes place in actual NBA games right ? Refrain from being...

As others have said it's a combination of : 1/ Being put in better scoring situations by his teammates thanks to spacing and quality passing (Exum and Diaw). 2/ Having worked hard at it, which we can see on the FT shooting. 3/ But the biggest reason of all so far, sadly, is that it's preseason...

I am alwasy happy when I see a player make the right choice to compete and feel like an accomplished athlete. Seeing guys like Johan Petro spending years being a journeyman in the NBA was depressing. I have tremendous respect for guys like Pleiss or Nando de Colo who just decide they would...

The key question with Diaw will be to find a way to motivate the guy. He is a consumate team player, he needs to feel like he plays for a team and that the team wants him to be as unselfish as he is naturally. If he can be motivated by Q and the others and kept away from too much food, than he...

Of course the coaches value rim protection !!! and of course Gobert will get the max. What remains harder to assess in today's nba is if Gobert and Favors really can have a future together.. But that's another story. if Gobert can stay healthy, have a 12/12/2,5 type of season and keep his great...

exactly. Denying Kanter's abilities and weakness is stupid. He is a great offensive rebounder and an offensive presence inside, you put him in against a team with guys like Duncan and LMA who are superskilled but not that mobile (Duncan is now a zombie in terms of speed and LMA was never the...

France should get through, so he will be at work with the french team starting progressively in early julyish in order to be ready for the Olympics, but not from mid june like he would have had to if he had taken place in the TQO. So he gets 3/4 weeks extra rest and conditionning.

Well first of all this is like a massive massive irrational what if. But to roll with it, you keep Gobert and ship out Favors for back up defensive C and some more backcourt depth. With Lyles being the player he would become in your scenario, the floor isn't much more spreadable anyway and...