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Ira Winderman: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Expect Jimmy Butler now to sit out Saturday night in Utah,[/URL] with the expectation of sitting one of the two games in this back-to-back. Essentially, Victor Oladipo becomes Jimmy Butler tomorrow night.
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/IraHeatBeat"]Twitter IraHeatBeat[/URL]
[url]https://kslsports.com/497050/utah-jazz-four-factors-week-ten/[/url]
[QUOTE]Similarly, Ochai Agbaji has made only four appearances in the Jazz’s last six outings averaging 4.8 minutes per game.
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worry about what he's doing with the Stars
[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/the-downbeat-latest-jazz-news/2022/12/30/23532781/utah-jazz-pick-watch-nba-draft-dariq-whitehead-jarace-walker-jordan-walsh[/url]
[QUOTE]Sitting at 11th is Dariq Whitehead, the 6’6” wing playing at Duke. He is an athletic wing player with an improving 3pt shot. He will still be 18 years old on draft night. Something that really stands out when watching him play is how smooth he is with the ball in his hands. If the Jazz stand pat and don’t try to move up further into the lottery, a player like Whitehead would be a great guy to take a shot on.
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definitely got to think they'll be looking for wings in the off season. They are all guards and bigs now
[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2022/12/30/23533181/utah-jazz-lose-close-game-against-sacramento-kings-nba-lauri-markkanen-domantas-sabonis-fox-winner[/url]
[QUOTE]On the other end, the Jazz could hold look to trade everyone not named Lauri Markkanen, Walker Kessler, Ochai Agbagi, and Collin Sexton. They can see what kind of draft compensation they can build from veterans like Mike Conley, Kelly Olynyk, Malik Beasley, and Rudy Gay. They can increase their odds at a top pick and see if they hit on a generational young player.
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Agbaji is definitely available. I think Ainge will try to get good young vets like Lauri, Sexton, Collins on decent deals until they get the big guys to max out
[url]https://sircharlesincharge.com/2022/12/30/nba-first-time-allstar-nods-brunson/4/[/url]
[url]https://hoopshabit.com/2022/12/29/nba-trades-under-radar-trade-targets/[/url]
[QUOTE]The beginning of the Will Hardy era in Salt Lake has produced some of the purest basketball we’ve seen in years through elite three-point shooting, constant ball movement, and fast pace. Nonetheless, despite the team’s exciting start to the season, it’s still most likely that the Utah Jazz [URL="http://hoopshabit.com/2022/11/11/utah-jazz-start-cost-wembamyama/"]become huge sellers[/URL] at the trade deadline. While this may certainly include veterans like Mike Conley, Malik Beasley, and even Jordan Clarkson (despite the [URL="https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2022/12/26/jordan-clarkson-utah-jazz-have/"]extension rumors[/URL]), one of the often most under-looked players in the league, now a member of the Jazz, is [URL="https://www.nba.com/player/203482/kelly-olynyk"]Kelly Olynyk[/URL].
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as long as Clarkson is part of it
[url]https://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/269833/Cavs-Remain-More-Cute-Than-Contender-For-Now[/url]
[url]https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/269831/Cavaliers-To-Pursue-Wing-On-Trade-Market[/url]
[URL]http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2pdbdsj9[/URL]
Miami: [URL="https://*********.com/lists/nba-injuries-tracker/"]Jimmy Butler (right knee injury management) has been downgraded to out for Saturday’s game[/URL] against Utah. Victor Oladipo (left knee injury management) is probable, and Caleb Martin (left quadriceps strain) and Udonis Haslem (left achilles tendinosis) are questionable.
– via [URL="https://*********.com/lists/nba-injuries-tracker/"]Alberto De Roa @ *********[/URL]
And for the first time since coming back from his torn left ACL, Ingles looked like himself again on his way to 14 points, five rebounds and 10 assists in the Bucks’ 123-114 victory. [URL="https://theathletic.com/4047356/2022/12/31/bucks-joe-ingles-giannis-antetokounmpo/?source=emp_shared_article"]“If we won and I played like s—, like I had in the first five games, I’d still be happy,” Ingles said. “But I was just talking to my wife in the ice bath and it’s like, I guess the nice part is the work that I did over the last 11 months, even playing with the Herd guys and different times along this, you’re not second guessing, but you’re like, ‘Have I done enough? Am I still going to be the same person? Can I still move the same out there? Can I still create the same?’ There is no doubt that I questioned that along this 11, 12 months[/URL].
– via [URL="https://theathletic.com/4047356/2022/12/31/bucks-joe-ingles-giannis-antetokounmpo/?source=emp_shared_article"]Eric Nehm @ The Athletic[/URL]
“The favorite quote of everybody else is I’m 35 — apparently that’s just like a major bad thing in life now. Like, I would have gone home very happy tonight if we won, especially after the last few games, but just to feel a bit more like myself, getting up the minutes a little more from what I’ve been able to play. In the end, you’re helping these guys out to win a game. [URL="https://theathletic.com/4047356/2022/12/31/bucks-joe-ingles-giannis-antetokounmpo/?source=emp_shared_article"]That’s what I’m here to do — to help create and playmake for these guys and make shots when I can and be annoying on defense and that’s just what I try (to do). Tonight was probably the most natural I felt out there.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://theathletic.com/4047356/2022/12/31/bucks-joe-ingles-giannis-antetokounmpo/?source=emp_shared_article"]Eric Nehm @ The Athletic[/URL]
[URL]https://www.slcdunk.com/2022/12/31/23534138/herro-ball-tyler-herro-lifts-miami-heat-past-utah-jazz-in-thriller[/URL]
[QUOTE]The good news for Utah is that Lauri Markkanen is here to stay. Tonight he had another big night with 29 points on fantastic efficiency and he doesn’t appear to be slowing down, if anything, he’s just getting better. There’s just no way the Jazz don’t find a way to keep him on the team long-term. If he can do this on a team that wasn’t supposed to win a lot of games, what happens when you pair him with elite talent down the road?
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he becomes the role player he's always been? Great players carry teams. We saw Gobert carry a lot less talent to wins
[QUOTE] It’s danger time in Minnesota. The losses are piling up and so are the frustrations. This passion play has been at the local art house for the last two decades, and the foundation crumbles so much more easily when it has been blown up and rebuilt over and over again. Fingers start pointing and fabric is torn and the team is staring down the barrel of a potential disaster should they finish in the lottery and give their pick to Utah, where Walker Kessler has out-performed Gobert in some loud areas this season. [URL="https://theathletic.com/4048742/2023/01/01/timberwolves-rock-bottom-pistons/"]“I think tonight was the first time I saw them frustrated with each other through a lot of different ins and outs of the lineup, tough losses on the road, but tonight I think it manifested itself in a different way,” Finch said.[/URL] “A lot of frustration with guys not making the right and simple play.”
– via [URL="https://theathletic.com/4048742/2023/01/01/timberwolves-rock-bottom-pistons/"]Jon Krawczynski @ The Athletic[/URL]
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Kessler has more blocks. Minnesota's D is good with Gobert. Jazz D is bad regardless :facepalm
Tony Jones: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Collin Sexton didn’t practice today and is taking a week to strengthen and rest his hamstring.[/URL] Not necessarily a setback, Sexton just doesn’t feel like the hamstring is where it was before the injury. He will be out at least a week
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/Tjonesonthenba"]Twitter Tjonesonthenba[/URL]
Jason Anderson: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]According to a league source, Keon Ellis and Chima Moneke will join the Sacramento Kings in Salt Lake City for Tuesday’s game against the Utah Jazz.[/URL] Ellis and Moneke will remain in SLC with the G League Stockton Kings for Wednesday’s game against the Salt Lake City Stars.
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/JandersonSacBee"]Twitter JandersonSacBee[/URL]
[QUOTE]Eric Walden: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Utah Jazz owner @Ryan Smith getting up shots at Jazz shootaround with coach Will Hardy[/URL].
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even he might shoot better than his favorite bum