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Svi Mykhailiuk has 2 more years on his contract plus a team option. But his 3.7 million contract is non-guaranteed. What will the Jazz do with him? This is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your NBA clairvoyance.

Soon Ainge and his team will have to make their 2025 draft selections. I know it is early but lets look at how well Ainge drafted for the Jazz so far as he already drafted 6 players who played at least a season for the Jazz. I will list 4 players drafted right after each of the Jazz draft pick...

The Jazz just completed two back-to-back seasons of historically bad defense: since the start of the NBA no team has ever been as bad as the Jazz. The Jazz are young but so are/were many other teams, the Jazz are tanking but so are/were many other teams. There are probably many reasons for...

Walker Kessler is eligible to begin extension talks this summer. Everybody loves Walker. I know that ideally we would like him to sign the extension for $300,000 per year but in reality he could be asking for a bit more. At what price point should the Jazz rather say "We can't do it. Good luck!"...

Next season two rather similar players, Hendricks and Filipowski, will suit up for the Jazz. They are the same age (born within two weeks of each other), with the same one year of the NBA experience. Filipowski is a bit taller but Hendricks has a longer wingspan and their standing reach is...

...when his FT% is at 53%? I looked at all 3-point shooters in the NBA with the 3PT% >34%: there are just a couple of guys with the FT% in the mid-60s and that because they are having an unusually bad year or/and shot very few free throws. They shot way better in previous seasons. I mean, there...

The Jazz have three very similar players. All of them can play as a SG or a (smaller) SF, all have long contracts and for all of them the ceiling seems to be being a quality backup on a contender. It's almost a certainty that the Jazz will have to include at least one if not two of them in the...

In his 5 games he scored 2 points! Not on average - in total. He completely stopped shooting and driving, he also does not get any free throws. Even Collier's playmaking has been rather mediocre. He is trying on defense though. What is the point of playing Collier in the NBA if he is going to...

Kessler is getting better while Gobert seems to be slowing down a bit. However, Gobert is still very, very effective: he is the reigning DPOY and has a lot of playoff experience. So, who is the better player now? For the context, here are some stats for 2024-25 from the Basketball Reference...

I know, having polls about the 2025 draft is kinda early but with the way the team is playing it looks that the 2025 is (almost) the only part of the season deserving an extended conversation. We all have hopes and dreams but even in the best case scenarios the Jazz will have way less than...

In the last game of the season the Jazz play the Timberwolves, which brings some interesting choices. There is a very good chance that the win by the Jazz would move them up in the standings and at the same time bring the Wolves down and vice versa. What would you prefer, a win or a loss? Keep...

The Jazz want to draft a future star this summer. Lauri started the season struggling and the Jazz happily raked up the blowout losses. In his last three games (all against good teams) Markkanen averaged 28 points and the Jazz ended up with one win and two close losses. If Lauri keeps playing...

Almost every recent NBA champion had 1-2 superstars and 2-3 better-than-average players for their positions (i.e. top-15 players). These are players like Aaron Gordon, Brook Lopez, Kristaps Porzingis, Khris Middleton. It does not look that the rebuilding Jazz found their superstar yet but did...

In 31 minutes he averages 14 points on 59% FG, shoots 4 3-pointers at 48%, and adds to that 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.3 steals. And he also plays good defense against guards, which the Jazz are seemingly incapable of. It is clear that the Jazz gave up on him too early. Another strike against...

It seems that for now three players secured their place in the starting five (Lauri, Keyonte and Kessler) because they simply have no serious internal competition. The last two spots, at PF/SF and SG/PG, which are currently filled by Hendricks and Sexton are different: one make a case for...

I know he is the Finnisher and is good at that. However, most of the elite teams now have a secondary or even a primary playmaker among their forwards/centers in addition to a passing guard and it opens so much. The Jazz also thrived when they had Olynyk. And I am not asking for much...

The Jazz have a bunch of young players. Who do you think will pan out and be a starter in the 2026/27 season (when, I hope, the Jazz will be done with the rebuild and try to compete again)? I limited the selections to three, since, realistically, two other starting spots will be taken by someone...

It is apparent that the Jazz want to move forward with Lauri being one of the core players to build around. And we know that the impact that Lauri has on the game is highly dependent on what kind of players he is surrounded with. So I dived in the last season lineups to see who Lauri thrived...

Ok, so we had our predictions for how much of improvement will our players show in the summer league. The consensus was that Hendricks and Brice would improve the most, while Kessler - the least. We saw them playing, so who actually showed some clear progress and who was essentially the same...

Last season the Jazz achieved something remarkable in the NBA: they produced the worst defense in 2023-24 AND the worst defense of all time: https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/worst-team-defensive-rating-in-season-nba-history. This the thread will be dedicated to covering the incredible journey...