Utah Jazz Rejected Pacers Trade Talks For Lauri Markkanen
So the Pacers supposedly called up the Jazz and were like hey what would it take to trade Lowry Markin in and that was before they you know did the Pascal cakam deal and the Jazz showed no interest in trading Mark him Zack low of ESPN says marinan has emerged as an
All-Star borderline all NBA player in the league basically the closest thing to Dirk ninski we’ve had since Dirk ninski and by all accounts any team would have to grossly overpay to consider taking him off of the Utah Jazz’s roster now he signed through the 24 to 25 season and he’s expressed
Returning and remaining long term with the jazzz and he is rumored to be signing a renegotiation in contract extension kind of similar what like damont sabonis Miles Turner did last year so keep um imagine that I’m very excited to see that I want to hear you
Guys’ thoughts on this one this is the rest of what we’ve heard so the Jazz are allegedly continuing to build around Mis yes the man the Pretty Boy himself Lowry marinin as W Ali says marinin is more than likely going to get a contract re renegotiated and extended by Utah as
He’s their new face of the franchise it makes sense and with Lowry what you have right there is a guy who especially with what they talked about the other with earlier today how the parody across the league you’re not going to have these threee headed teams anymore you’re going
To have two-headed teams and Lowry’s good enough to be a two-headed monster and at this point what you have with Lowry is a guy who can can average 30 points a game a guy who’s going to be on contract for the foreseeable future he’s 7 foot tall he can he can shoot threes
At a high clip or get to the rim in just two steps he has the ability to shoot from three but has taken that step to be an Allstar all NBA player he’s basically the athletic modern day the more athletic Modern Day dirk the confidence is through the roof his consistent he
Has F and he’s buried early criticism of rebounding and defend ending and become better on those things and he can play the five effectively in spurts but he’s best paired with a rim protector like Walker Kessler and he’s going to finish his career as a multi-time Allstar maybe
An all NBA player so it makes sense that you want to build through this guy because all you need to put is defense around him Mark Stein of the Stein line confirmed what we knew the Utah Jazz are looking to trade John Collins yes so sadly John Collins didn’t work out this
Season and you know that was for one could say a multi two of reasons I just think he just wasn’t a fit and they were hoping that he would but the cool thing about John Collins this year is he’s playing 28 minutes a night which is actually the lowest amount of minutes
He’s played since his rookie season and he’s putting up 13.7 points eight rebounds he’s having one of the best rebounding years of his year season of his career as well as shooting the the three-point shot incredibly well he’s right now shooting 47.6% from the field
Which is the you know six th best in the league while he is also shooting from three Al right now he is a guy who’s letting it loose at 37% with four attempts a night which is a career high on how many three-pointers he’s shooting and at this point what what are
You getting with John Collins if people are asking like what what does John Collins give you at this point in his career who I’m a big fan of Johan Collins he is this guy who is freakishly athletic for his size he’s 6’1 with a 7t wingspan he’s a freakish athletic guy
Who can play power forward or Center he can finish through his opponents get Above the Rim he also possesses great skill level like he has the perfect style of play when he tries to be a great fit at the power forward position for today’s modern NBA he can space the
Floor with his three-point shot he can attack the rim and drop draw a foul he’s defensively he should be a really good player but his defensive impact isn’t anywhere near where it should be his effort on the defensive end wains he just doesn’t move his feet well on
Defense sometimes he can show bad body language and not show good effort when the team isn’t doing well but for me I mean I’ve always been a John Collins fan I’ve always been team Johnny boy but I don’t know I I’m I’m a real understander that John Collins and his contract aren’t
Easy to move so here I’ve said this before ran Holmes Maxi CA and a second round pick for John Collins to Dallas Mavericks that’s really not that bad of a move now another team is I think the Indiana Pacers the Indiana Pacers though if they were to do a deal like that I
Think the the thing that will hold them back is financially I don’t know if they have the the filler to take on that deal let me just look at it so they are $36 million under the tax so my understanding is they could probably just eat the money so I take that back
So if the Utah jazs were so let’s send John Collins over that’s $25 million the Pacers would be taking and the Pacers would look at this and be like okay let’s get rid of a contract we don’t want and what is a contract that they don’t want I think Jordan
Wara would someone they would move and I know he’s hurt but I feel like he’s the next guy that they would move is Jaylen Smith and they would give up at most a second round pick I can’t see them giving up anything more than so right here
Okay so the Pacers if they did Jordan War Jaylen Smith in a second round pick problem is Pacers would have to cut have to cut more money and I don’t they would have to give him like TJ McConnell and I don’t know if that’s even worth it
At that point like the only other way I see that’s the problem is like they legitimately would have to give up TJ McConnell and I just don’t see that being worth it if you have to give up TJ McConnell so monetarily wise for this deal to work work it would have to be
Jordan War Jaylen Smith TJ McConnell and can it just be Jordan Wario and TJ McConnell does that get the deal done no you’d have to keep Jaylen Smith in the deal so obviously at that point if you’re the the Pacers for example who we know in
The past they’ve had interest in in a deal like this I just I’m I’m just very much surprised by what it is so this would have to be a three-player deal and then you would have to hope that someone who’s like not making any money like a Luca
Shamanic could just be a trade filler so the easiest way for a team like the Pacers to do this deal John cins and Luca shamanic for TJ mccon Jaylen Smith and Jordan war and I just don’t think it’s worth it in my opinion but John Collins real quick I
Just wanted to say I just think it’s an interesting situation dude the fact that John Collins was a Reclamation project and I knew that it was a it was a big one and what we talked about earlier was the Utah Jazz are open to trading John Collins sources told Andy Larson of the
Salt L Tribune the quote is the 26-year-old big man has had the lowest on court off Court splits of any rotational player on the Utah Jazz the team has been frustrated with his slow uptakes on learning the Jazz system on both ends of the floor according to Larson he’s missed his third straight
Game he is averaging 14 12 points and 8.6 rebounds he is shooting 38% from three 4 48% from the field he’s like look it’s it’s just frustrating because he’s providing some floor spacing and some defending but it’s he it’s just like besides the solid shooting rebounding there isn’t there his iffy
Performance Plus the $77 million he’s over he’s owed over the next three years is going to make it difficult for anyone who’s going to want to take the seven-year bet but I just find it weird that he’s a guy who and I know I know what you think of John Collins but we’re
Three years removed from him being a 17 points per game score like really two years removed from him being 16 17 points four years removed in the 201920 season where he averaged 21.6 10 rebounds like almost two blocks and was like a like a borderline Allstar so my
Thought is what’s going on like you said is like the year before he was still a 19 and 1 Half Point per game score the year after that they added denil ginari and bogdon and he was still an 18 points per game guy it’s just I mean one person
Brought this up in my comment section that he hasn’t been I think in 2020 was the year he got caught with Peds like taking Peds and everything’s been down and I I don’t know how much correlation I just looked at John Collins like let let you know I’m a
Fanboy of John Collins and I always thought he was a guy who was just after you know him having his Fall From Grace I was like he’s just a coach away he’s a coach away from figuring it out and this is because like he has the freak athleticism you want from a guy
Who can play the four or the five he can finish through opponents and Above the Rim he’s got great skill he’s like the perfect style of play for a power forward in today’s game you can space the floor from three attack the rim and defensively yeah his impact is nowhere
Near where it should be but the effort on that end isn’t there but if it was like he could be good at defense but it just shows bad body language and doesn’t give the best effort so I I so the I think the whole thing to wrap it up is
Like I don’t even know like if they’re going to trade John Collins I think they just give him a second round pick and say good luck good luck thanks for taking him off our hands it didn’t work for us so hope you enjoy him cheers I
Don’t know it’s not a good situation in my opinion and I feel bad for the guy and I feel bad to
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I can't blame the Pacers for trying, but Danny Ainge is usually hard to deal with.