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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.

Then we have a problem. Whoever plays the shooting guard should be able to create good shots through dribble penetration, shooting off the dribble and shooting coming off screens. VJ is not good at that. Also, standing at 6'4" with the 6'7" wingspan he is a bit below average for SG and will be...

I have a question for people who prefer VJ at 3: what position do you see him playing for the Jazz?

Now, I heard that about Cody a lot: "one of the absolute worst players in the NBA" and I think it deserves to be challenged. How do you know that Cody was one of the worst players in the NBA? The advanced stats like NETRTG are heavily influenced by the team's performance (all leaders tend to be...

Well, obviously. However, I don't understand folks who are so upset about drafting Cody that drop him to Cs for that pick alone. It is incredibly hard to draft 18 year-olds and every great GM has duds along with solid selections. Ainge was right for 5 picks out of 6 - that is a great batting...

Was he a reliable predictor of the Jazz draft choices in 2023 and 2024?

It's not. I personally like VJ more than everybody else we can draft at 3. His defense and court vision are really special. But he is still an undersized SF, a tweener. Every once in a while you end up with someone like Draymond Greene or Paul Millsap but usually these players are struggling a bit.