I'm happy with it. Not ecstatic, but pleased.
The analytics weren't super high on him, but I think there is reason--his playing out of position and with a bunch of other stars--to believe that the stats may not completely capture Lyles' full talent.
That is, the Jazz could conceivably pick anywhere from 1 (with good lottery luck) to 11 (with terrible lottery luck). If you were given the choice between being guaranteed player X in the draft vs. letting the rest of the season/lottery play out, who is the worst player you'd accept in that...
Assume the offer would have to be more than Martin, Lamb & the pick that became Adams and Utah would have had to tie up future cap space with a max deal for JH.
How many of the young players would you have been willing to give up to make the deal?
Even if you pretend Wall/ Nene for Al/Paul sounds fair in terms of talent, the Jazz are only offering a few months of control of Jefferson/Millsap (plus Bird rights). Wall is still on a rookie deal. No rebuilding team is going to give up young core pieces on favorable contracts for 30-40 games...
Should Corbin be playing Burks/Evans more at the expense of Marvin/Foye?
John Hollinger (12:51 PM)
Evans shouldn't be playing. Burks should be, but Foye's floor-spacing is really helping them right now. The DeMarre Carroll thing is the part I don't get; they could be slotting Burks those...
It was first uploaded to YouTube several years ago. I think the title was Williams & Boozer or something like that. It was set to sort of a jazzy tune and the guy who made the video inserted a swooshing sort of sound effect every time one of them dunked. I've been trying to find it for like an...
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