Coach Ellis
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Over the past 5 years, Deron Williams, James Harden, Dwight Howard and Kevin Love have all been traded for blockbuster packages. Multiple picks and players. Bynum, Iguadola, Bogut, Ellis and other high quality players have been traded as well.
The Jazz currently have four guys that I think they see as Core players moving forward. Rudy Gobert, Derrick Favors, Gordon Hayward and Dante Exum. Alec Burks is probably non-tradeable right now because of his injury and contract.
They also happen to have the kind of assets that could have been in the conversation for all of the aforementioned All Stars that were traded. My hope is that instead of trading Kanter for peanuts in one deal and/or Burke in another, that the Jazz would look to pool their best assets over the next 5 years and go after a guy with All Star potential to add to the current Core group.
Any combination of Kanter's Bird rights, Burke, Hood, Jingles, Booker, rights to Tomic/Neto , multiple premium draft picks (unprotected if needed) and the potential to provide cap relief by taking a bad contract back should be enough to get a couple of teams to at least consider parting with a young guy who hasn't "proven it" yet.
IF the Jazz were to pursue this kind of trade, who would you want them to go after? And why?
For me, it's Giannis Antetokounmpo. Yeah, he's long and athletic, but his shot has really struggled. I think Quin is more patient and better at developing players than Kidd is. I don't know if he'll ever be the offensive force that some think he's capable of, but I love how he plays and I love the defensive potential for a Gobert, Favors, Greek Freak, Hayward and Exum starting lineup. I'd pay a premium price to pull that deal off and then use FA to buy a bench to support the core.
Rather than selling low, the Jazz should aim high and try to pull off a big move. They'll have to overpay to do so, but they have the assets and I think the cap jump will make it harder to do next year. I don't know if it's even feasible, but it seems preferable to me instead of selling low now and failing to utilize assets later on.
The Jazz currently have four guys that I think they see as Core players moving forward. Rudy Gobert, Derrick Favors, Gordon Hayward and Dante Exum. Alec Burks is probably non-tradeable right now because of his injury and contract.
They also happen to have the kind of assets that could have been in the conversation for all of the aforementioned All Stars that were traded. My hope is that instead of trading Kanter for peanuts in one deal and/or Burke in another, that the Jazz would look to pool their best assets over the next 5 years and go after a guy with All Star potential to add to the current Core group.
Any combination of Kanter's Bird rights, Burke, Hood, Jingles, Booker, rights to Tomic/Neto , multiple premium draft picks (unprotected if needed) and the potential to provide cap relief by taking a bad contract back should be enough to get a couple of teams to at least consider parting with a young guy who hasn't "proven it" yet.
IF the Jazz were to pursue this kind of trade, who would you want them to go after? And why?
For me, it's Giannis Antetokounmpo. Yeah, he's long and athletic, but his shot has really struggled. I think Quin is more patient and better at developing players than Kidd is. I don't know if he'll ever be the offensive force that some think he's capable of, but I love how he plays and I love the defensive potential for a Gobert, Favors, Greek Freak, Hayward and Exum starting lineup. I'd pay a premium price to pull that deal off and then use FA to buy a bench to support the core.
Rather than selling low, the Jazz should aim high and try to pull off a big move. They'll have to overpay to do so, but they have the assets and I think the cap jump will make it harder to do next year. I don't know if it's even feasible, but it seems preferable to me instead of selling low now and failing to utilize assets later on.