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I see that you carefully avoided mentioning any of defensive stats.

Well, almost all players invited to the Jazz workouts are guards. If I were Keyonte I would be very concerned.

Well, we can look at the past drafts to see how often the guards with Collier's stats (25% 3PT, 68% FT%) improved over time. By improved I mean at least reaching the 32% 3-pointers and 75% FT% level. I looked at all guards (drafted in the 10 drafts staring in 2011/12) who got enough play in...

I think Svi still can be useful for a playoff team as a (rather deep) bench player. He fits that coveted Indiana prototype of a tall athletic player who can pass and shoot threes. And he is very, very cheap and being from Ukraine gives some interesting story to teams to market. He is kinda...

You are such a casual. I care about all Jazz players.

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.

Oh, I read it as the West Coast for some reason... We should have a separate thread about his fate anyway.

Must be Svi. For a late second-rounder to the Clippers or something like that.

What, Kessler is done improving? You can argue it was him who improved the most last season.

It is not such a stupid plans for other small-market teams like OKC and SAS. They can afford to wait with all their picks for a guy like that because they are not simply waiting but instead actively competing with a good young core in place already. The Jazz' problem is that Ainge wasted 3...

Directly - no. But they could have been one of the teams involved in multi-team trades. Now the market is down to OKC, SAS ... and several teams that should not be big buyers but may get prematurely desperate (DET, LAL, GSW, Toronto). If one or both of OKC/SAS decide to wait another year for...

One of four teams who are in the win-now mode and have draft assets just spent them on another player. The Jazzfanz: "Price for Lauri just went up!"

Why do you think that this is such a "nuts" statement? This year the non-playin teams in the West were the Suns, Blazers, Spurs and Pelicans. If the Spus and Pelicans are relatively healthy there is no chance that the Jazz finishes ahead of them. Outplaying the ascending Blazers (who finished...

Are you sure about that? Dallas got the first pick this year: they could easily trade it for someone like Giannis and contend immediately. Philadelphia got the 3rd pick: if they trade it for someone like Lauri and Embiid is healthy they are certainly a contender. Last year the perennial deep...

You don't need to because the Spurs will not do it: it would be a firable offense.

Nope, not the same. The Jazz just traded a collection of slightly lower picks for a higher draft pick. Such trades although rarely, but do happen, like Tatum-Fultz. I was talking about trading a top-3 pick for an older established player to "win now". That is simply a much, much rarer situation.

That' not word, these are just usual baseless NBA speculations. Why would you trade a player on a cost-controlled contract who can easily turn out to be the future 10-tine All Star and a franchise cornerstone? Especially for someone who will kill your cap space with a huge contract? They can...

Why do people keep seriously thinking that the Spurs will trade their 2nd pick in a very deep draft (which normally would be the 1st pick) for a win-now older player? I mean, how often such a trade for the top 3 pick happened in the NBA? Besides Wiggins? It is an extremely rare occurrence and...

Lots of people will regret their takes in this thread.

We are looking at the team with no centers and no scoring guards: if Lauri misses his usual 20-30 games they are not making the playoffs. The Jazz will go into the season with the 35-year-old Holiday, 30-year-old Giannis, Lauri and a bunch of the second-year players with no experience of the...