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Player falls to 18th in a whatever draft, projected as a career backup by NBA teams despite absurdly elite shooting because he's a bad passer and defender. Has lengthy defensive lowlight reel. View: https://youtu.be/ni4UyMk8UUw?si=ddHEI2--uwXlDkDN&t=711 But uhh, I guess pointing this out is...

Clayton was not an impressive passer or defender at all in college. He wasn't Jimmer tier, but he was Jimmer-esque at times in those areas. We'll see how much he improves in the NBA when he's no longer the primary option on offense.

We only have two picks left and one is top 5 protected. Unless they're bad in 2026-2027, the remaining picks from them don't matter.

Halo. Didn't know his dog was so small, very cute.

Ace and Cody are nothing alike. Cody's entire appeal was that he was smart (he played PG in high school) and could dribble a bit and had a good finishing package. He was a terrible athlete and incredibly thin and had a broken jumpshot and could not defend at all due to how unathletic and weak he...

Cody was one of the absolute worst defenders in the league last year and was terrible defensively in college as well. The defensive improvement for the Jazz with Cody is that Cody is probably going to barely play this year. Ace has tons of defensive upside, but is probably going to be bad...

For his size, I think Cody might be the single worst rebounder in recent NBA history. How does he never get any.

It's going to be SloMo over Collier as SloMo is a much better player.

Keyonte SloMo Ace Lauri Kessler To start the season Then trade Lauri and bench SloMo. SloMo can play PG on offense and SF on defense.

Ace is soooo explosive.

The upside for the Jazz is that the league hates guards that don't defend or pass so much that the Jazz will be able to re-sign Brice and Keyonte for around the minimum.

The Jazz can probably extract a first from the Mavs to absorb Klay's contract at the deadline and if they do, this is a pretty fantastic deal after thinking about it. Gotta make sure to rip off their awful owners though.

I mean, if we're trading up, it's to trade up into that star player tier so we'll be in the same situation again.

You can't trade for star picks in the NBA unless the team with the star pick dislikes the player. Teams were willing to offer the Spurs everything for #2 and they laughed people off.

Why do we want a player that contributes to regular season winning and not postseason winning right now.

We finished 30th in defense in back to back seasons.

Neither can play the 3 at all and the Jazz should not really do this as they need Lauri to look good on defense to start the season to trade him. They're just going to play Hendricks 10 minutes a night the first 20-25 games until Lauri is moved.

Lauri is going to be a turnstile in 4 years and Ace is at least 4 years away and our 2026 pick may be further than 4 years away, this is not happening, we're trading him as soon as his trade value shows a pulse.

I don't think it matters, I just don't think Ace is even slightly close to a "do it all guard." Ace isn't even a guard, he's a forward with very limited guard skills.

No your salary cap is not, lol. Teams have gotten a lot of seconds from taking on big expiring money. Maybe you need to eat long-term money to get a first (like the Nets with MPJ), but that would have still been a better use of the cap space than whatever they were doing with their cap earlier.