The Bigfooty Official Week NINE National Basketball Association (NBA) Thread

[peternorth]

watch and try not to laugh

 

[Sydney Kicker]

Geez that was a wild one in Utah.

Exum still can't even get on the court. Coach never seems to give him much of a chance even when the rest of the bench contributes nothing. Any hope the Jazz trade him or is he too hard to move?

 

[Son of Skeletor]

Exum still can't even get on the court. Coach never seems to give him much of a chance even when the rest of the bench contributes nothing. Any hope the Jazz trade him or is he too hard to move?

He's tradeable, but only to teams in certain situations.

Cleveland for instance would be a possible landing spot, albeit they've loaded up on guards at the last two drafts. I doubt they'd mind taking on 18 months of Exum's contract if they could move Delly (Jazz wouldn't do this though) or Clarkson (feasible).

The Jazz could look at teams like the Pels (ET Moore), Bulls (Thad Young) or Knicks (Payton/Gibson) in terms of a mutual cap dump trade, or if they wanted to add a little extra in the trade perhaps Minny (Teague) or OKC (Schroeder).

Given most teams aren't planning on spending until 2021, Exum is probably more movable than one would expect for a guy who barely plays.

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

18 and 12 in 24 mins for Ayton’s return. Only positive I can find, pardon the pun

 

[fidstar]

Exum isn't getting minutes because he's crap... and fat!

 

[Damon_3388]

Now that all teams have played at least 24 games (82 - 58 from playing everyone twice):

 

[Damon_3388]

After roughly 1/3rd of the season:

 

[Damon_3388]

watch and try not to laugh

"SILENT! SILENT! SILENT RIGHT NOW! YOU SILENT RIGHT NOW!"

 

[Damon_3388]

Exum still can't even get on the court. Coach never seems to give him much of a chance even when the rest of the bench contributes nothing. Any hope the Jazz trade him or is he too hard to move?

Exum isn't getting minutes because he's crap... and fat!

Hot take - The Jazz can't draft and develop stars!

Their current two best players (Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert) were drafted by their neighbours in Denver, then traded in. Nobody else that has been a leading player for the franchise in recent times was drafted by Utah either, all trades or free agent signings.

Just fives players (Andrei Kirilenko, Mo Williams, Deron Williams, Paul Millsap, and Gordon Hayward) that Utah has drafted in the last 34 years have made the All-Star game, and only three of those (Kirilenko, Deron Williams, Hayward) were with the Jazz when they made their first All-Star appearance, and just one (Hayward) was drafted in the last decade!

 

[Son of Skeletor]

Hot take - The Jazz can't draft and develop stars!

Their current two best players (Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert) were drafted by their neighbours in Denver, then traded in. Nobody else that has been a leading player for the franchise in recent times was drafted by Utah either, all trades or free agent signings.

That's like saying that Dallas didn't draft Doncic.

Of course Utah drafted Mitchell and Gobert... at picks 13 and 27. Getting All-star talent at those picks is... well, good.

Just fives players (Andrei Kirilenko, Mo Williams, Deron Williams, Paul Millsap, and Gordon Hayward) that Utah has drafted in the last 34 years have made the All-Star game, and only three of those (Kirilenko, Deron Williams, Hayward) were with the Jazz when they made their first All-Star appearance, and just one (Hayward) was drafted in the last decade!

Almost all of their picks were in the late 20s during the Jerry Sloan era... which was like a quarter of a century.

If you can draft Kirilenko, Millsap, Mo, Byron Russell, CJ Miles etc with late firsts and seconds, you're not doing too bad.

You could probably say that they screwed up the 2011 draft, but a lot of teams did. It was only exceptional in that they actually had good picks for once. The other times that they did - Deron and Hayward - they actually hit.

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

 

[peternorth]

Nek minut head coach?

 

[Dez!]

Wonder how big of a lead we will choke away today?

 

[peternorth]

Wonder how big of a lead we will choke away today?

Ill take 15 +/- 3

 

[LB#16]

Philly fans being salty over Jimmy. Like clockwork.

 

[Memphis]

watch and try not to laugh

I always look forward to this every morning.

 

[Memphis]

watch and try not to laugh

Nothing beats this one.

 

[Memphis]

Hornets have to be the worst up and down team.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Miami has hit a crazy amount of tough jump shots with the shot clock expiring. Been very impressive this season and this would be a massive win for them.

 

[nahnah]

Game 7 Scary Terry showed up there on that wide open game winner!

 

[Mazza1234678]

Man Ja Morant can play

 

[LukeParkerno1]

That should have been overturned

 

[NSWCROW]

Al Horford you absolute nimrod

 

[danielnajdek]

That should have been overturned

The Embiid non foul that he actually blocked Butler?

 

[LB#16]

Miami win. Philly fans sooking about Butler, sooking about refs and booing their own team. Glorious.