GRADING The Utah Jazz Offseason

GRADING The Utah Jazz Offseason

All right. So, today we’re going to touch back in on the Utah Jazz and we have a little bit to talk about. Um, some more interesting topics of discussion will just involve the overall composite look and perhaps grading what the offseason has looked like overall for the team. I realized after reading some articles that I kind of disagree with some of the more prominent names in the Utah Jazz reporting space. Not in a egregious way, but just I view things a little bit differently. And a good point to start on, I suppose, would be with Tony Jones. He rated them as getting, I believe, a B for their overall report card for the offseason. And I might go a little bit lower. I would say C plus B minus at best. The reason why, so in his ideologies or his understanding of the situation, the main goal was achieved, which was obviously to make sure you can have an organic tank next year. And despite adding George’s Nyang back, you know, he’s on an expiring contract. I believe it’s $8 million. So, it makes a lot of sense for them to go ahead and do that for me. Now, granted, this also moves us over 15 players to 16, which means that we’re going to have to remove somebody. The odd man now is looking like it’s going to be Kevin Love. The fact that we haven’t offloaded him and just, you know, released him just leads me to believe that they plan on trading him or they have a possible trade partner. Now, the important thing to note, I believe that he can be traded right now as of today, but he can’t be traded in relation to another player being in the deal as well until September 7th because of some weird two-month rule. That’s fine and dandy, but that’s the main thing that makes me think that we have a planned trade with him and potentially we could end up offloading somebody else like perhaps KJ Martin because though he does have some very serviceable skills and he’s obviously significantly younger than Kevin Love, I don’t think that he’s going to have the proper opportunity uh to battle it out in the front court and, you know, play some consistent minutes. And it’s just because he ended up on the Utah Jazz. if he was on the majority of other teams in the league, he would have a fighting chance to be in the rotation. But because of how our whole system is orchestrated right now and the types of pieces that we have on the roster and the potential of some guys to be even better than not just him, but like than most people would expected of would have expected them to be, it’s not boating too well for him. So, I could see either one or both of them going before the season starts, but either way, one of them has to go because obviously we’re at 16 players got to get down to 15. Likely going to start the season at 14. It’s just about is it just Kevin Love, is it Martin as well? Or is it Kevin Love and somebody else? Or heck, maybe maybe something crazy happens and for some reason Kevin Love just takes a teaching role and somebody else ends up being the odd man out. Kyle Anderson still on the roster, which was an interesting one. I don’t think that he’s going to enjoy being a bench player this year. Neither probably will George’s Nang. So, I would assume they’re both going to battle it out with the young guys and if nothing else push them forward. However, while I could see Kyle Anderson vying for minutes, which is something that mildly concerns me, I don’t see a world where George Nyang either outplays Kyle Filipowski or a healthy Taylor Hendris. um dare I say if he outplays either of them then we have bigger issues on our hands. But seeing what obviously Kai was able to do in this most recent uh summer league season, I don’t think that it’s likely that that happens. So, it’s just about him battling it out for that second spot in the big in the bigs category alongside Taylor Hendricks once he returns from his injury. And it seems like his progress has been going very very well, which is lovely to see on all accounts. Um his shooting will probably be a big determiner of the minutes that he is allowed to get and then just how freaky and out of order Will Hardy decides to get with some lineups just to make sure number one we lose games and number two everybody gets a chance to do everything. But it’s okay. It’s okay. Now my issue that I saw with them being graded a B was the trades in the draft. You know you have BA you have Ace Bailey, you have Ultra Clayton Jr. you have John Tanji. Um, and then my brain’s blanking on the last one, but we’re we traded him for George Nyang in a one for one for one, but we got a second round pick out of it. And the mantra was, oh, you guys were mad that we had to give up a second round pick when we traded away Colin Ston for literally Nerkage. Here, stop complaining about it. We got you a second round pick back. And it’s like, now now let’s let’s let’s draw a comparison, right? This is a rough comparison. It’s not one for one. We’re saying that. Matter of fact, I’m going to look up his name. I’m going to look up his name right now so I don’t mislead you. Rookie RJ Lewis Jr. for George’s Nyang and a second round pick. Now, in this deal, we did also give them a little bit of an opportunity by taking on part of that 26.6 million John Collins trade exception. George’s Niang is on $ 8.2 $2 million contract and then the Celtics tax bill drops them down from 73 million down to 30 million which puts them $10 million underneath the second apron finally because their books were looking crazy and then $1.7 million over the first. So they’re they obviously made out a little bit better than us but is to say some some people if you really wanted to do one of those like power scaling videos you would say RJ Lewis Jr. is more valuable than Colin Ston because you got a mediocre player who’s probably not going to play significant minutes for your squad and a second round pick while the other one you had to pair a second round pick with to get a mediocre player that’s also not going to play a lot of minutes on your roster and they’re saying hey we got a second round pick back so don’t worry and I don’t really like that because when I think of rebuilds and I think of the most successful rebuilds and I think of the ones that are more modern like these these big ones that have happened over the past 10 the the model that you want to look at is the Thunder because the Thunder are giving us an even greater incentive to tank this upcoming year because our pick that we gave them is top eight protected and we really don’t want to give that up. At the same time though, you’re sitting there and you see all these draft assets, they just won a chip. They were believed to potentially win the chip the previous year, but they went all the way lost to the Mavericks and Mavericks lost in the finals. know here, there, everywhere in between. But they’re going to be a perennial conference finals, finals team. Dare I say they they’re not quite bordering on dynasty, but they do have the perfect makings for one. And then on top of that, they have a buttload of draft capital. They have that draft capital because every time they gave something up, they got something in return. It didn’t matter who it was to the point where now they’re so good it doesn’t matter because they’re still reaping the benefits of their tanking era when they were trading away good players for more assets. And here we are saying, “Hey guys, don’t worry. We took Colin Sexton who was borderline 50 40 90 splits, 18 points, four and a half assists, you know, three boards. Oh yeah, he’s he’s pretty cool. But, uh, let’s throw a second round pick in there and, uh, grab a center that we’re not going to play like that just because we we can get rid of that expiring contract. And also, he he’s not going to outplay Walker Kessle, so we don’t have to justify to the league that this is a bad move that we’re not playing him. Are we serious right now? Jordan Clarkson, h we’ll just let him walk. Granted, that there was probably a very small niche market for Jordan Clarkson, so I can kind of walk that one off. John Collins we also didn’t really make anything out of and he was incredibly solid. I dare I say he had this best season in a Jazz uniform this past year and showed some showings of the early version of himself that was in Atlanta with some elite shooting chops back on the table. Then we just let two out of our three guys go for mothballs and a watt of bubble gum and we’re sitting here. Yeah, we can live with that. I mean, sure you can, but if we’re going to look at the Thunder and say this is A+, brother, brother, but we’re we’re we’re way down there cuz you didn’t get like it would be different if we got something significant for John Collins. Got some eh for Colin Ston and then let Jordan Clarkson walk because then it’s like, okay, it kind of evens out, but there’s nothing to even out there. We’re going to look at this at at this K at this KJ Lewis trade and say, oh yeah, this evens it out. No, it it can’t. That just doesn’t make sense to me, me personally. I I don’t know. Maybe maybe y’all can justify it a little bit more for me in the comments. But the reason why I do say it’s probably a B minus and being a little generous, at worst a C++ is because they, like I said, did really hit in the draft. And I love the prospects. Uh usually I really enjoy the picks that we’ve made over the past few years. But I really like these guys. Like these guys particularly obviously Walter Clayton Jr. and Ace Bailey are guys that could potentially be starters long term. I believe right out the gate they’re going to be vying for some serious minutes. They’re obviously going to get minutes regardless, but serious minutes like Isaiah Collier can lose his job 10 to 15 games into the season type serious minutes if you’re Walter Clayton Jr. And then for ace Bailey, well, you know, starting at that guard spot, maybe you get slid down to the three some games. Just overall just you’re going to have an opportunity to showcase who you are and why this team actually drafted you when they drafted you. And then for Tongi, it’s going to be a little bit more risky, not necessarily risky, but a little bit more difficult for him to see the floor in consistent minutes. He’s going to get more of a Bryce sensible ball experience. However, there aren’t really a lot of veterans that are just going to, you know, get shut down at the end of the season to allow him to showcase his abilities like how we have with Bryce his rookie year where later on in the season, even though Taylor Hendrick was already up playing games, he kind of like slipped in there at the end and played I want to say like 23 24 games and admittedly his shooting wasn’t really good, but you got a little taste of Bryce Sensible before he came out the next year and said, “Hey, I’m back and I’m better.” And I think that Ton will have the opportunity to showcase some skills. I just don’t know how much we’re going to be able to get out of him this upcoming year. I also like that he picked the number 17. Uh I was scrolling on TikTok mindlessly one day and I saw that he picked it because he likes Android 17 uh from Dragon Ball, which I found to be the craziest reference because there’s a lot of people slight side tangent. Um, there’s a lot of celebrities nowadays that think liking anime is cool and everything, but I remember before the great shift in like 2019, 2020 when COVID hit and everybody just started watching it by proxy that it was like taboo to ever talk about or anything like that. So to see somebody openly say, I literally picked my jersey number, the jersey number that I would like to probably keep for my entire career and isn’t really I can’t think of another play that has a number 17. As a matter of fact, did PJ Washington at one point, not PJ Washington, uh PJ, not PJ Walker, [Music] PJ Tucker. I think PJ Tucker had 17 when he was on the Rockets, but that’s the only 17 that I could think of. So, he literally picked his entire, you know, career number based on a single character that he loved very, very much. And I just think that was really cool cuz I love anime, too. But I think overall they’re going to be a very well they not only were they well vetted and well picked I do think that they’re going to be reliable and I know that I had my reservations about Ace Bailey but he’s very quickly showing me that he just likes basketball and that’s one thing that I love more than anything. If you love the politics of basketball and you love the money that comes with basketball more than you love basketball, then I’m not going I already know I’m not going to enjoy your game because you’re not doing it for the love of the game. You’re doing it you’re doing you’re playing the game to reach the end. And that’s not really it. I’m more of a journey kind of guy. I like I like that. I like the the ups and downs, the es and flows that come with everything. In that same vein though, I can understand why most people would give them a B or an upper B. If you give them an A for this offseason, you’re actually kind of crazy. But if we were looking at just draft, I would say A minus A flat. And then for the trades, I’d probably say a you might get a C minus out of me. Yeah, I’m probably going C minus. and that’ll put us at a B minus, maybe upper C at best, but nevertheless, still solid overall. I do think that it’s going to be interesting to see again what we end up doing with those 16 players that we have on the roster now because I just don’t know what the most likely not like obviously I said you know Kevin Love and maybe Martin but overall I don’t know if that’s like a guaranteed lock or if something more interesting could be a foot coming up once September comes around the corner because the season still hasn’t started yet and there’s still some movement that can happen. Overall, the Jazz did their biggest thing, which was obviously taking that step forward. And by taking that step forward, I mean taking that step backwards in a reasonable way to where a lot of your young guys can have the opportunity to play big minutes, showcase who they are, show the fans who they are, make the fans fall in love with them, and then also show the coaching staff, hey, I’m a core piece of this upcoming future. And like I said before in the last video, Keonte George is a big guy that’s going to be on the hot seat. He is the number one person on the hot seat. Honestly, dare I say, because you could argue, okay, Walker Kesler, you need to learn how to shoot free throws like immediately. Like, even if you have no jumper whatsoever, you need to be able to shoot free throws. Looking back at a few things that we didn’t end up touching on too heavily or we had some questions in the comment section of the previous video that we dropped, uh, one was brought up where one of us said that they think that Walter Clayton Jr. is going to be the long-term point guard. And I think that’s an interesting wrinkle to focus our attention on because for myself personally, I am a really big believer in Walter Clayton Jr. while I don’t think he’s a perfect one forone replacement for Colin Ston, I think he’s as close as you can get when it comes to young guys. Now granted, he’s not terribly young, like he’s not 18, 19, he played all five years in college, but at the same time, he’s younger, right? Uh granted Khan Sixon wasn’t old. He was late 20s. But the thing with him is I do believe that between him and Trey Johnson, they were the two most technically sound and efficient shooters in co all of college basketball last year. And we got one attitude. Do I did I want Trey Johnson? Abso freakingutely. But here we are. So we’re going to be fine. I do think that Isaiah Collier had a rough summer league. Summer League should always be taken with a grain of salt, but it’s also important to pay attention to the fact that he didn’t really have not only a good showing, but I don’t even think he had a decent showing. It was definitely a net negative all across the board. You had guys like your Bryce Sensalls and your Kapowskis who were just incredible, right? But you can’t hold everybody to that incredible standard because everybody can’t be great. If everybody’s great, nobody’s great, right? You’re all just good compared to competition at least. Now, the thing with Walter Clayton Jr. that I do want to see is how well his passing chops evolve during this season. I think that at the end of the day, if Isaiah Collier still shoots 29, 28, 27% from three-point range this year, and then he’s also struggling when he goes downhill finishing at the rim and whatnot, he doesn’t really add a change of pace to his game, and he’s still mildly turnoverrone. Yes, having eight assists is nice, but if every other game you’re going to give me four turnovers, and you’re also going to shoot 34% from the field, 38% from the field, and you’re going to jack four threes and maybe hit one. That doesn’t sound like a winning recipe to me, myself personally. Now, the thing with Walder Clayton Jr. is he will need to refine his shot selection just a little bit because in college he was able to shoot from literally anywhere because people would dare him to do it and then he hit it and it was like a snap Stephen Curry effect. We actually have to step up and get in his grill. I love the way he sets his feet when he’s going off the catch when he’s coming around uh DHO’s. I think that he’s going to have to change that shot a little bit at this next level because these are the most athletic people that you will end up facing in your career. This is the top league in the world. So, you sitting there going around a Valker handoff, that hand is going to be in your grill. So, you being a quick trigger, yeah, that’s cool. That’s nice and all. You can beat Pistol P, but there’s probably going to be a hand literally bearing down on your face as soon as you come over that screen. Now, in the beginning, some people may not respect him. You know, there’s a little bit of a of a draft report that’s been given, you have some college tape and things of that nature, but there’s no guarantees of what you will end up looking like for a lot of coaches. But after you play a team once and twice in the season, they’re like, “Okay, we have 20 25 games worth of tape on this kid. He likes to do this. This is his tendencies. We have there’s there’s scouts that their whole job is to mark down what you do do, what you don’t do, and what they can do to force you to things that you don’t like doing. And then that becomes their plan for him. That adjustment is going to be very interesting. I think that he will actually do very, very well. Part of it’s because he’s been in college for so long and then the other part is just because I trust the way his brain works. And it’s difficult to put that into words and explain exactly what I mean when I say that. But across the board, even in the summer league games, it was one of those things where yes, he was shooting the shots that he likes taking and yes, he was driving downhill, but he was also intentionally trying to find the correct play to make. And there’s a little bit of a gear shift that comes there because in college, for the most part, he is the best person on his team at any given point in time. So, if somebody’s going to miss a shot, it should be him. It shouldn’t be, you know, buddy who doesn’t put in as milling hours, shoots 7% lower from three-point range, he’s not getting that shot. If somebody’s going to jack a three, it’s going to be me. Like, that’s the mentality that he had to have. But now coming into the NBA, there’s players of a higher caliber, both against you and on your team, and there’s a different level of expectation for you because of the position that you’re in. He recognizes that he has to be willing to focus more on that cerebral part of the game and think things through in a way that allows all his other teammates to also be cohesively successful in whatever system gets run. And I think I liked seeing him try and pass the ball. He tried some very interesting passes. He tried some solid passes. He tried the correct passes. And then he tried some ones where I scratched my head a bit, but I was like, maybe he saw something that I didn’t see right there. And I think there’s going to be a lot of growing pains for him as a passer, especially early on this season. I wouldn’t be surprised if he came out the gate, say he plays 32ish, squeeze out, if he squeezes out like 30, 32 minutes a night, I could see him averaging north of three turnovers. I think he’s going to end up actually starting the season out. Collier will start, there’s no doubt in my mind. Now, I know there’s a lot of discrepancies amongst the fan base because he can’t shoot with a lick. Like, you think Wesler can’t shoot, Isaiah Collier can’t shoot. But at the same time, Isaiah Collier did have a great run at the end of last year. He’s looking to build on it and we have to take summer league with a grain of salt. Remember, take it with a grain of salt just a little bit. There’s some things that you should pay attention to because we didn’t see any jumps in shooting, right? And in some games, we didn’t even say consistencies with his shooting. that might be cause for concern, but until he does it against guys that actually I don’t want to say actually matter, but guys that he will be playing on a night innight out basis, that’s when we draw our our final conclusions. And that’s going to be the point where I feel comfortable saying, okay, I trust what he’s doing or it’s time to make that change. And I’m prepared either way. I definitely think I’m going to say my overunder. I don’t want to lowball and say 12, so I’ll say 17. I’m going to say over under 17 games, Walter Clay Jr. takes his spot. And my reason for saying that isn’t just going to be the shooting, but overall the command of the offense. Yes, Isaiah Collier is known to get a lot of assists. But at the same time, like I said, he’s still also very turnoverprone. So, if we have this rookie that can shoot the ball while you can’t. He’s a slightly worse passer just because he doesn’t he hasn’t been that hasn’t been demanded of him before. And then you also add into the effect that he’s probably a low-key, very low-key, more cerebral player, and you have somebody whose ceiling is instantaneously higher than yours. And at that point, it’s like, okay, I’m going to let you try this out because I believed in you, right? You earned this from what you put forth last year and the sheer effort and vigor and energy that you gave us when you were on the floor. But at the end of the day, while we are tanking, we also need to know who our core guys are, who our leaders are. And if you’re the guy that’s going to lead off the bench, and we’re going to have you beside Keonte George, and then we’re going to have a point where you have Clayton and Ace Bailey, or maybe you have Ace Bailey at the small forward spot, and you feel comfortable putting Bryce In there because Bryce continues to shoot lights out. And while he’s not necessarily a crazy positive on offense, let’s say he just middles the road. In some games he’s slightly positive, some games he’s slightly negative. He just sits there in the middle, but the shooting is always there. Not really. He has maybe one or two games where he has off nights, but for the most part, he’s a really, really good shooter. Borderline puts himself in conversations with Colin Sexton’s level of efficiency that he had last year. Then maybe maybe you’re comfortable with that. You know what I’m saying? But as things stand right now, it is call your spot to lose. Now, on to the last part that I wanted to touch on. I wanted to make sure I made this video just a little bit shorter because I know I did drag rather heavily though I did talk about a lot of meaningful stuff. Uh usually everybody doesn’t have 50 minutes in their day to, you know, listen to me. But at the same time today to close things out, we’re going to talk a little bit about Ace Bailey, the why was he considered a top three pick, what we were looking at that makes us feel so promising with him, and how he’s different from Cooper Flag and Dylan Harper, as well as why we should be excited about him. The thing with Ace Bailey is he’s one of the more pure scorers you’re going to have. He’s a tough shot taker, tough shot maker. He never sees a shot that he doesn’t like. He has confidence that is off the charts. And one there there’s a couple issues obviously with his game, but for the most part, he’s one of those guys where you question, could he be that guy? You don’t know for certain that he is, but he has a game that in the his mentality and approach towards the game tells us in the back of our minds that he low-key could be one of those guys. He could be one of those ones. Now, his issues for me personally and what I’ve seen in his game, he has a loose handle, right? And then from a passing sense, he doesn’t really have playmaking skills. They’re extremely subpar. So, I need both those things happen. That’s why I think he’s going to get a lot more time this season at some point or probably for the most part at the two guard spot because it just makes sense that way and it will force him to be a better ball handler because you’re going to have shorter guys on you that are going to pick your pocket when you sit there and you dribble all loose so you don’t have the ball close to your body. You’re not tight with everything that you do. And when you think that you’re going to sit there and get caught in a situation and try and swing that ball out, you better make the right pass because if you don’t, well, it’s going to be a turnover. You’re going to feel dad. You’re going to feel bad. You’re going to feel dejected. You’re going to feel out on yourself. And your teammates are going to pick you up, but they’re also going to hold you accountable and tell you where you went wrong, how you telegraphed the pass from time to time, what the correct read was to make if you made the wrong read, and what you need to do next time. And that’s part of the growth process for him. But I do believe that he is prepared to take those steps with the Jazz. Defensively, he’s pretty solid as well. He’s not going to make as many crazy plays as he did in college, of course. But across the board, I do think that he’s going to be very much a plus on that side of the ball. And I would actually lower his overall rookie year grade if he was even a slight negative defensively. I think at worst he’s a slight positive. I’m not going to sit here and say, “Oh, he’s going to be a generational defender. He’s going to be Kawhi Leonard.” But he should definitely be a positive. I don’t see a reason why he shouldn’t be. The biggest difference between him and Cooper Flag, I’ll say Cooper Flag is being put in a position that I feel so bad for him. Not because he’s on the Mavericks and he has all these great teammates and that sort of thing. No, because everybody wants Cooper to be the ball dominant lead guard, you know, lead wing takeover kind of guy. And I don’t think that’s his game. I think he’s one of those people where he has a guard on his team that creates disadvantages and he destroys disadvantages, but in a honest onetoone matchup leading things, I don’t think that he ends up playing his best basketball in ISO possessions in college, you could see a lot of really good things. You could also see a lot of really shaky things. You could see where his handle was kind of loose sometimes. You could see the types of shots that he chose to take in certain situations. You could see how his brain processed certain reads. And I just believe that he’s more of a Jaylen Brown type of attacker than a LeBron James or Kevin Durant. You know, just go out there, just give me a bucket, just make the right decision, put the ball in the right person’s hands. I don’t think that’s him. Now, when I say he has more of a Jaylen Brown type of game where he’s going to win off mismatches or even uh uh Thunder uh JDub, Jaylen Williams, I’m not saying that he’s a bad player. I’m not saying he can’t be a generational player, though. I question whether or not he is. I don’t know what’s supposed to be generational about his game, but I do think he’s one of those ones, undoubtedly. But a lot of people think, oh, so he’s a guy that needs somebody else to create mismatches for him or to create advantages, and that’s the best he can do. That doesn’t sound like he’s an all-time great player. There’s not a lot of players in the league that can correctly punish mismatches. How many times have you seen one of your players and they get the ball on the wing and you see you see the height advantage, you see the size advantage, you see somebody who’s a lead footed defender and they just can’t win that matchup countless times, right? That’s what makes guys like prime, the prime James Harden, the Stephen Curry, the Kyrie Irvings, all those guys so great because when they get a mismatch, it is a mismatch. They see it, their eyes get wide, they start licking their chops, and they go to work. I think uh Cooper Flag is in that niche realm of players. I think that he can do some ISO work, right? I think for stretches of a game, he can rattle off some serious points and lead your offense when you need it to be led. But I think he will be at his best when he has somebody like a Kyrie alongside him who can create mismatches, who can create disadvant who can create disadvantages for the defense and get guys out of position and then allow Cooper Flag to have the ball and just do what he want whatever he wants to do with the man in front of him. And that’s the biggest thing. I know it’s a little bit of a hot take and most people are a lot higher on Cooper Flack as a main ball dominant wing than I am for sure. But I still think he’s a he’s going to be a terrific player that has a terrific career nevertheless. And he will be an all-time great player. I stamp that. Um it would take some crazy injury or some crazy terrible situation changes for me to change that opinion. But I’m open to it though. I hope it doesn’t occur. You know, with Dylan Harper, it’s rough because they’re kind of two sides of the same coin. You have them obviously both playing at Ruckers, both having a similar coaching style, if you can call it that. And they were both basically you turn, your turn, my turning it. And Dylan Harper is a better passer by proxy because he’s more obviously a guard and required to be one. But they both have similar if I like the shot, I’m going to take the shot mentalities. And they’re both positives on defense. Dylan Harper obviously a little bit less of a positive just because he doesn’t have the same height and length, but at the same time he wasn’t a slouch on that side of the ball and when he chose to lock in, he was locked in. Now, you’re not going to see as many gamebreaking plays or or like high crazy highlights on that side of the floor from him, but across the board, he was a solid guy on that side. Shooting wise, their percentages are pretty similar. They both like similar shots. They both like their contested jumpers. They don’t care that your hands in their face. They live off shooting those anyways. They’re gonna shoot it anyways. If it goes in, you’re gonna have to eat that one. If it doesn’t, I’ll shoot it again next time. And I’m gonna tell you it’s going to go in that time, too. And I think that the clear the the floor for both of them, Ace Bailey’s floor is a little bit higher just because he’s taller and longer because their overall stats are roughly symmetrical for the most part. You could argue that Dylan Harper’s maybe a little bit better of a shooter at times, but for the most part, I think career-wise, the person that has the edge just off sheer talent and build is going to be Ace Bailey. So, I would lean Ace Bailey probably in both categories over Dylan Harper. Over Cooper Flag, not necessarily. But again, like I said, in order for Cooper Flag to be at his best, he needs a point guard or another player on his team who can, you know, create and generate those mismatches and make things shaky for the opposing defenses so that he can absolutely just just demolish them. And I don’t know that the Jazz would have had somebody that could put him in his best shoes, if that makes sense. Now, if you say, “Oh, let’s say for some reason we did end up getting Cooper flag and we still got Walter Clayton Jr. Maybe there’s a conversation to be had right there, but there’s not enough tape on Walter Clayton Jr. at this level. He hasn’t even played an NBA game. So, that’s too much speculation for me personally. I do think that that’s why I leaned more so Trey Johnson this draft, but I’m not mad that we got Ace Bailey. And I’m hoping that he continues to prove my initial beliefs on him being not all about basketball incorrect and that he is in fact a lover of the game and somebody that plans on being around and being in the history books as one of the all-time greats. But that’ll do it for today’s video. If you made it this far in the video, you know I appreciate you. First of all, smash the like button, subscribe, turn on post notifications, become a member of the channel to help support the content. And as always, good morning, good evening, and good night, no matter where you’re in the globe watching. Thanks for tuning in, and I’ll catch you guys in the next one. Peace.

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