Tim LaComb: Opinions on Lauri Markkanen trade rumors, do the Jazz have another budding star on th…
uh let’s welcome in our next guest longtime assistant coach in the state of Utah here I’m on Utah Jazz preap and postgame shows coach Tim lome what’s going on Coach hey Ben good to see you I understand you got hatch with you today how is how is my favorite Instagram Jam artist doing oh I’m a little tired today was a late night but um I’m well I’m well and it’s always nice to see your name pop up in fact you did pop up last night I did I tuned in for a little bit Ben uh Ben I don’t know if you noce he go on Instagram live oh nice and Tim just jams out it’s fun it’s fun down in the basement yep oh I know about lom’s Jam Sessions hey uh before we get into the Lowry market and news and the latest can we go back to the draft a little bit and kind of what you thought the Jazz takeaways were and you’ve watched as much college basketball as anybody we had talked about Cody a little bit throughout the year we never talked about either Kyle filipowski or Isaiah Collier so as these picks happened what did you think the storyline of the night was for the Jazz and how they approached the draft well they definitely um in my mind did a great job I think everybody would agree with that you know most the pundants think the Jazz may have won the draft in terms of the talent they acquired but I think the the key was they were able to get it without having to move anything you know they didn’t have to move an asset or a pick um they were able to kind of stand Pat stay where they were and it really I I was surprised I didn’t think Williams would be there at 10 in many scenarios and when he was available you know I thought that that was huge um they were able to get three of those guys you know call Coler it’s been a well spun narrative that he was the number one player in the country in 23 uh coming out before College um and really it’s his size and speed kind of that combination so intriguing but uh the fact that they were able to get him where they did and then and uh you know wait that one pick on the second round uh to get filipowski who was their target there I think it was it was well done um I’ve said it along the way but the ping pong balls were not good to the Jazz but the draft and the way that it fell it it didn’t penalize them I think that they were able to to draft the guys that they probably would have drafted given um the ability to move around so really happy to see that now Ben and I have kind of been going back and forth on stuff involving low Markin and all the rumors involving him and potential trade but I I think the biggest thing and I want to get your thought on this Tim is Danny a Justin zanic the Brain Trust of the Utah Jazz it appears on paper they have kept every option available to them whether they do trade Lowry they retain him no matter what they want to do they have Avenues to really move whichever way they want right and I think um you know I think there was a plan in place to to go after some of these free agents you know Ben’s chronicled the the bridges um you know that the attempt there when that thing went to five draft picks you know the Jazz had a line in the sand that they weren’t going to move from and I think that’s just prudent business um you know you can’t get too hungry but I think they did make a couple of chance uh you know took a couple chances to go after uh pieces that made sense but you know at that at this point the Jazz now are probably looking at off um you know there’s been chronicled four or five different teams have approached them with serious offers uh but I I do think at this point that the Jazz barring something that just you know that they just can’t pass up uh I think the the Jazz are probably in a place we’re going to have Lowry in the fold um you know a bunch of young guys around them and uh and and approach it that way obviously a couple other moves could still be made but I I think we’re out of the not completely out of the woods but I think the the Lowry thing would have to be something that you know Justin would see you know and Danny would see and say there’s just no way we can turn that down and I just don’t know that that’s out there uh I don’t know that A team’s gonna be willing to do that much yeah I I guess one of my big questions here and I this is the question everyone is asking themselves that’s trying to acquire Lowry are they Lowry away from being something significantly different and Lowry’s an amazing player I don’t know if what you have to give up from Golden State to get Lowry back puts you into contention you know I just how many teams out there do you think are Lowry away from being the favorites to win a title that couldn’t make that argument already without him I think you’re right U and and really you look at the two teams that are probably the most intriguing from a person Personnel standpoint um you know it’s it’s been rumored that kaminga is really making big moves and starting to to get better he’s a young guy um obviously came up the G League route but he’s had a he’s kind of had a a little bit of a jump here uh and I think psky is the other guy who I love on their team um you know so are they are they willing to move those two really good young pieces and a whole slew of picks for a guy who obviously is going to bring so much but is it going to be that much more than what those guys are giving you now same kind of thing can be said in Oklahoma City I mean if you’re going to do a deal and it’s got to blow your hair back Jaylen Williams got to be involved in that deal um you know if you’re dealing with OKC and I just can’t imagine them being willing to to mortgage that really shining star I think he’s one he might be one of the next three four guys that just hits you know the scene hard and and so I think that’s what the jazs are trying to to you know if they’re going to give up Lowry they got to get something like that in return and and to your point I just know teams are going to be willing to do that and and not that Lowry’s not worth it um but does it make that big a difference and I think that’s where everybody’s at right now looking at what the Jazz I I I get I I get intrigued by what the Jazz front office may be considering doing here Tim because DJ says this I agree with him on it that Lowry may be good good enough to keep you in a spot where it comes to the NBA draft where you don’t want to be essentially in the middle of the or the bottom part of the lottery whereas in in the case of this upcoming draft maybe the upcoming two drafts you’d like to be near the top so how do you weigh that how how do you figure out which way to go well I mean it’s the old adage of you know being able to do that with and maintaining culture but the one thing I do know about young players they have great intentions sure there’s a major their learning curve um and you know young players definitely are going to lose you know their share of games because of the fact that they are on a learning curve and so really it would be a management thing at that point um you know I I just I just believe that this can’t be you just can’t force this it can’t happen um you can’t necessarily manufacture it um the key is the Jazz have a slew of talent in my opinion I think they got a slew of young Talent after the F last two drafts um with more to come and then obviously the ability to move around with picks uh the narrative hasn’t necessarily changed it’s just everybody’s timeline here is you know everybody’s on the edge of how many more years can we go through this but to me it’s the end game you know it’s it’s looking down the road and understanding that trying to do something here in Utah it’s never been done and so they’re trying to go about it a little bit differently and it it’s not easy I will tell you that it’s not easy because even if you tank perfectly and we watched that this year you got a 14% chance you know that’s not great and so um I I do hear the narrative often that people are confused with the Jazz plan and the plan is only as good as as your environment uh like this offseason you know they’re hoping maybe somebody would get tired of a a really good player and be wanting to move them uh and the Jazz could get involved but as we saw those things didn’t line up so you’ve got to be ready to strike but you can’t be too overbearing because you know these moves obviously you’ve only got so many of them and you got to be really smart about what you do all right I’m going to put my David lock cap on oh this should be fun I’m going to read just some numbers you’re going to ra your deci then I was there in the studio and he hurt my ears uh I won’t I won’t yell at you I will I’m going to read you some numbers though real quick over okay here’s the only players since 2015 who have averaged over 20 points five assists and two rebounds so 25 and two shot better than 50% from the floor and better than 40% from the free throw line only five guys have done it Lebron James Kyrie Irving Shay guildes Alexander Kevin Durant who’s down it four times and Steph Curry if you add in 85% from the free throw line so 50 40 85 on 20 points per game five assists and two rebounds over solely a 50 game stretch since 2015 just 50 games not an entire season kawii Leonard Nicola yic Kyrie Irving Shay gildas Alexander Kevin Durant Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler since 2015 are the only players who ever had a 50 game stretch like that and there’s one more name and they play for the Utah Jazz and who do you think that is man 20 five and two shooting 50 40 and 85 for at least 50 straight games is it Lowry it’s colins seon I was gonna say seon but I didn’t trust myself well I I I was like there’s two names in my mind it was Lowry and Collins you go yeah well the guys who have done it are Kawai yic Kyrie Shay Kevin Durant Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler like coach we’re talking about the best players in the NBA who have done this and not all stats are identical nor does it indicate that necessarily you’re going to be you know an MVP candidate but I really think we’re sleeping on how good Colin ston was once he got inserted into the starting lineup last year I 100% agree I mean I was calling that out all year that was you know the bottom line is Colin got here and he he really worked on himself and you know the this he’s always had that ability to go buy people you know but we watched in the first year him get into spots where he got stuck um and this year kind of just watched it happen you know he his awareness he still has that burst and the ability to really get where he wants to go um but you know Will has done a great job of unlocking some pieces of Colin’s game and I agree with you Ben I think we’re definitely sleeping on him I mean he had he had just an incredible trans I don’t know Transcendence in a lot of ways not that the guy was bad but I’ve always believed you can you can uh you can slow somebody down you can’t speed them up and Colin came here with the mindset that he’s going to just go go go go uh and just those little things I think from a development standpoint all the time he spent on Reed and ball screens it’s opened up the game for him and and I’m with you he’s still a really young guy um when you consider that you know Keon was one of those rookies last year and he’s going to have year two I mean I don’t think that this is gloom and doom by any stretch but Colin seon man I’m with you he’s he’s playing his way into a different level uh and he did that last year I hope he can continue it um I would think with his work ethic the sky’s the limit but uh that’s a great call out it’s really impressive those numbers so when I I look at the questions about the Jazz future and how you get a second star next to Lowry my first thought is honestly he might be here and it it might be Colin ston and maybe you run it back with Colin and Lowry and yeah if you only win 40 or 35 games or 32 games last year and you end up another top 10 pick in next year’s draft maybe you do get lucky and you get that 14% And you get Cooper flag or or whatever you know the 5% to move up to get number one like Atlanta was able to do when you get one of these guys but like if you totally hit the reset button you might be losing a lot more than just low marinin and and some of the start you may be closer than to to one piece away in a M’s brid male Bridges type trade to really having a good big three with all of these young players and draft picks you still have on your roster Amen to that and I really do think that that’s the at least from where I sit I think that that’s if you want a path or a plan that’s out outside of you know the big game hunting tag you know that everybody wanted to to associate with I mean there was a sentence after that and you don’t go big game hunting and hit every single time and so you know if you don’t hit you’ve got to re reonal and and I think that that is probably the answer um you know I’ve always wondered too Lowry’s such a such a versatile guy and he’s so non ball dominant that it’s almost as if Colin and he could be uh you know you add one more piece to those guys and you’ve got a big three so yeah I’m with you there’s a lot of there’s a lot of um of development still to go but that last year that was a really big thing that happened in and around all of the noise and it did not get its proper due all right Tim I want to look ahead the summer league upcoming obviously the Salt Lake City summer league and then they’ll be down in Vegas as well but Ben and I were just talking about the the Jazz summer league roster is just filled with names like we’re talking players from the last three draft classes multiple guys who on two-way deals have NBA experience what are you going to be looking for in summer league well they do have in my mind they have a uh world champion summer league team because I was looking at it I like holy cow they got everything on that team that you need um but but that’s my point exactly is most of those guys are guys they’ve gone out and picked and under contract usually you’re scrambling to fill your summer league team and and that’s the phase but I remember when OKC would roll through here with a dominant summer league team and I think it’s part of the process and so the biggest thing that can happen this summer is that two things I guess is the young guys can understand what this is going to look like not necessarily the the exact momentum and speed because the stars of The League aren’t playing but to be out there and understand it and what it requires and then number two the the chemistry I mean that’s going to be massive here to get all these guys kind of on the same page um I’ve been really impressed with the Jazz as an organization and and it’s you know part of it’s having the g-league team here in town but the the meshing um you know when you go watch a Stars game and stuff they run you know is akin to what the Jazz are doing and so it’s it really is like Taylor Hendricks spent 30 minutes 30 35 minutes a night over there for majority of the Season just getting reps and it’s so valuable so this summer is about reps it’s about getting understanding and it’s about jelling um so that when training camp comes you got a bunch of guys who are at least a little bit more prepared and can hit the ground running but uh yeah if if they don’t win a summer league title whoever’s coaching that team should be looked at um very seriously Sean Sheldon your job’s on the line here buddy no but it is it’s a loaded group and it does speak to something I said when a first came here he understands Talent um and he understands you know talent that can really go at a high level and that’s what we got out of this last draft Cody Williams you know Collier and Philip bski those guys they’ve played on the biggest courts all their life um you know you go to an a event at 15 and there’s one court that everybody’s packed around these guys have been playing on that Court you know they they’ve felt that pressure now it’s the next it’s time to take that next step but that is a showroom filled with very very potent automobiles no doubt about it those each and every one of those guys has has unique talent and I’m excited to watch them play together uh cool that came out last night I don’t know if you’d seen it Brandon Carlson lands a two-way deal with the uh Raptors I know he’d gotten invited to Camp I didn’t know he was going to get a two-way deal that’s that’s a pretty Premier spot there’s only 150 those in the NBA which seems like a lot it’s not a lot those are hard jobs to get good for Brandon Carlson well couldn’t come from for a better kid um I had the opportunity to recruit Brandon uh while I was at BYU and we actually when we started to recruit him uh I went in we recruiting Yoli Childs and he was the backup Senator Yoli um and when I’d go watch it’s like who’s that young kid that’s just you know running everywhere blocking everything so we started getting involved with with him before he even started a game he ended up going to Utah um you know told us to take a hike but the cool part about it is we maintained a great relationship um his mom and dad are great people and it’s an awesome family so I’m so happy to see that for him he he definitely worked really hard he’s the oldest dude available in the draft this year at 25 so um but I think that that’s a great fit too I think Toronto seems like a place that would would definitely appreciate his strengths and go get tuted by Kelly oen which honestly if he makes it in the NBA he’s got some of that big guy who can step out and shoot some threes and hopefully do a little bit more with the ball in his hands yeah facilitate a little bit um Kelly’s got to use him teach him that high elbow trick and the hit somebody in the face with your elbow taking dudes out clear clear like sorry man I didn’t see you there yes that’s that’s the move he needs to learn yes for hey coach enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend appreciate you jumping on on a Friday yeah it was so good to be with you thanks guys have a great day
The Coach Tim LaComb joined Jake & Ben to give his thoughts on the Lauri Markkanen trade rumors. Also, the guys talk about another potential budding star already on the roster.
