30 Days Jazz: Trading 2 stars, Crazy Palley, Continue to play badly

In the NBA, it is easy to play badly, but reconstruction is really a long and uncertain road! In the 21-22 season, the Jazz, with Mitchell and Gobert as the core, is still a Western Conference strong team that can score 49 wins and 33 losses in the regular season. With Mitchell as the offensive core, they can play the offensive efficiency that is the league first, and use Gobert to build a defensive system, and their defensive efficiency is the 9th in the league.

However, the Jazz lost to the Mavericks 2-4 in the first round of the playoffs. There was a conflict between Mitchell and Gobert, and the Jazz needed to make a choice. The newly appointed CEO Danny Angie cut the mess quickly, not only traded Mitchell and Gobert, but the team's starter Reus O'Neal, Bogdanovic and Conley were also sent away one after another, and the Jazz started the road to reconstruction.

Gobert was sent to the Timberwolves, and exchanged for Malik Beasley + Beverly + Vanderbilt + Bolmarlow + Kessler + 4 first rounds, with a generous reward. Mitchell sent to the Cavaliers for Sexton + Markcanen + Abakki + 3 first rounds + 2 first round swap rights, and the same reward was also generous. The Jazz won at least 11 future draft picks through the exchange and zero transaction by sending off the starting lineup. Logically speaking, the next thing the Jazz has to do is to put it apart, then polish your eyes and choose the cornerstone of the future at the draft. However, choosing a cornerstone player is not an easy task. Even if you hold the top three picks, you may not be able to choose a player who can be the cornerstone of the future.

In 2023, the Jazz only had the 9th, 16th and 28th signs, and selected Hendrix, Kiant George and Sensabo respectively. In 2024, the Jazz only had the No. 10, No. 20 and No. 32 in their hands, and they selected Kody Williams, Isaiah Collier and Filipovsky respectively. At the end of the two seasons, the Jazz did not see the potential of the team's cornerstone in these six rookies. Only George averaged 16.5 points in his second season, which looked a bit good.

Looking back at the draft in these two seasons, after the ninth pick in the first round of 2023 and after the 10th pick in the first round of 2024, there is indeed no better player who is considered to be able to grow into an All-Star.

Therefore, this is not a fault for the jazz's vision.

If you can get the top five draft picks, the Jazz will definitely want to own Vinban Yama and the Thompson brothers. So the Jazz tried hard to play in the 24-25 season, holding down John Collins and Markcanen, and finally delivered a "good result" of 17 wins and 65 losses in the West, winning the fifth pick. In the offseason, Angie continued to work hard for his reconstruction. He traded Sexton, who averaged 18.4 points per game last season and Collins, who averaged 19 points per game, to exchange for an expiration contract, and give one or two second rounds. Clarkson, who averaged 16.2 points per game, bought out directly if he couldn't trade, making room to prepare for big things in the new season. The Jazz in the reconstruction period became an embarrassing player "sheat". Nurkic, Love, Li Kai, and Nian. Although these players are a bit useless, next season, can they free up more than 40 million in salary space for the Jazz? Is it delicious?

The Jazz's offseason operation is still great. Anji is really an old fox and he never loses in small business transactions. But the Jazz have two tasks in the new season.

First, trade Markanin and Kessler.

Mrkanin is still with the Jazz, which is definitely Anji's operational mistake. When Markanin played All-Star data in the Jazz in the 22-23 season and the transaction value was the greatest, Anji did not trade him. Instead, he renewed his contract in advance for 238 million in 2024, resulting in Markanin, who has an average annual salary of 4,800+, is still in trouble.

Leaving him is meaningless to reconstruction, sending him away is the correct solution. Fortunately, Markkaning played well in the European Championships and made some money back. Anji needs to revive his skills and exchange it for some future assets.

Kesler is very transactional. In the past three seasons, he has averaged more than 2.3 blocks per game, and has 4.6 rebounds in the league last season. This is a young center who can grab rebounds and protect the frame, which is attractive to many playoff teams, and can be worth at least 2-3 first rounds.

Ange needs to send him away as soon as possible, because on October 21, Kessler was qualified to renew his contract with Jazz in advance. Kessler is 24 years old, and the Jazz sends him away for generous rewards is the ideal choice for reconstruction.

Second, level up for Bailey in a crazy way.

Although Pele dropped to the fifth pick in the draft, his static and dynamic talents are both top-level, and he is regarded as the highest offensive cap among the 2025 rookies. If he didn't make trouble, he would definitely be in the top three.

Bailey asked to choose his team and he must be the core, so the Spurs with Vampanyama, Embiid Maxi's 76ers, and the Hornets with three goals and Miller did not choose him. In the end, the Jazz were willing to bet on his future.

Pelle played for Rutgers University, with a height of 2.02 meters and an arm span of 2.15 meters. Last season, he averaged 17.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.3 blocks per game. From the data, we can see that Pele is a player with both offense and defense. Bailey's scout report shows that Bailey's draft templates are McGrady, Paul George and Michael Porter Jr.

Therefore, if the Jazz has no requirement to win (the record is better at the bottom), they can level up for Bailey and use him as the cornerstone of the future team building. At the same time, Kiant George also needs to level up. The Jazz can allow young people to play more in the new season.. Hendrix has suffered from injuries over the past two seasons (43 games in total) and has missed a lot of games. If he can stay healthy, he may be able to save it.