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Cross posting my thoughts from RealGM: The Lakers really have to move Reaves for defensive help, but this trade is going to be strange among several dimensions. -Reaves is an UFA who will receive a max contract after this season. -Unclear Reaves can win in the postseason due to being a poor...

These are all fine.

The list of teams that would be willing to go "all-in" for Lauri don't exist. He's having a fine season, but more of a "not quite all-star season, maybe the 40th best player in the NBA" while having zero playoff experience to show if he can defend in the postseason. Meanwhile, this is his third...

I understand, but I remember TMac just doing pullup jumpers every time, whereas AJ is much more paint, free throw, and midpost focused which is much more similar to Kobe.

Weird amount of AJ-TMac comparisons instead of AJ-Kobe imo. T-Mac in general is a weird player for comparison as he had a four year prime, one historically elite season in that prime, and then a bunch of just OK years post injury.

It's funny how Boozer is the youngest freshman in the class despite already being like 260 pounds and one of the two contenders for NPotY, lol. Philon's stats are so bonkers that he can definitely sneak into the top 5 if he keeps it up. 27/7 per 36 on elite efficiency while only a Sophomore? Okay.

I mean, I don't know how many moves we can really make once we've signed Lauri, Kessler, Keyonte, and Grimes to big money.

I'm going to be very very real and say that Keyonte Grimes Ace Lauri Walker The 6th pick Filipowski WCJ/Collier Some bench player signed with cap space Can win like 45-50 games, but they're getting absolutely smoked in the postseason, lol. Like a 4-1 first-round exit each year. Not a super...

Brett Brown got a partial Hinkie despite being obviously less involved with throwing games than Hardy is.

Obviously if we just could get Tari Eason, that would be great, but his very awkward fit with Ace, Lauri, and Kessler does put a ceiling on how high we can go in salary negotiations. Are you really going to go like 4/160 for a guy who does not fit well with the entire frontcourt?

I mean, isn't this possibly going to end with Will Hardy blackballed from the NBA like so many guys from The Process 76ers were. The NBA very clearly sent a signal to the Jazz that what they did was completely unacceptable and the Jazz are like "... But."

The Eason idea has two problems for the Jazz 1. The Jazz would have to pay A LOT 2. Eason is a natural PF and the Jazz already have Ace and Lauri at PF. A Keyonte-Ace-Lauri-Eason-Kessler lineup struggles badly at ball handling and is close to capped out. Great offensive rebounding team though.

The Jazz face the current dual issue of: 1. The Jazz are not very attractive to established players because they have intentionally lost for four straight years 2. The Jazz are not very attractive to young players trying to establish themselves because they have so many guys in the rotation...

The Jazz will enter summer 2026 with over $50m in cap space as of now (this could change with trades, obviously) and there are a couple options though no serious game changing player. Likely targets Wings who can defend: Quentin Grimes Lu Dort (obviously would have to overpay a good bit to...

I think we have a clear top 5 (AJ, Peterson, Boozer, Wilson, and Flemings) and then a very big drop off.

I mean, the big issue is that Kessler has never made any impact on the Jazz because Hardy's scheme is completely opposed to Kessler's player type. The Jazz finished last in defense in Kessler's 2nd and 3rd years. Hardy's scheme greatly values big men that can get back quickly in transition...

The Jazz keeping the pick or not is pretty irrelevant compared to just getting a top 4 pick. The 6-10 range in this draft is not looking good at all.

Keyonte has a BPM of 0.1, a massive leap from prior years and not even slightly close to stardom. Hopefully he can be a league average starting PG like Garland.

Cavs have to be in complete panic mode right now.

Harper is way too low, the rest of this seems fine. I would probably take Keyonte over Daniels and Giddey, but I don't have a problem with the others.