These Teams Have NO Incentive to Win | Rachel Nichols & Chris Mannix
Chris Mannix and Rachel Nichols break down how Jaren Jackson Jr. will fit in with the Utah Jazz going forward before discussing the myriad of ways that the bottom of the NBA will tank in the second half of the season
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Tbf, Lauri has mostly played the 3 for Jazz.. Kesler at 5, Olynyk 4, Lauri 3.. So it wasnt just in Cleveland.. After Olynyk trade, Lauri has mostly been 4..
Giannis is getting too old to be part of tanking. Neither does he have time to wait for a young pick to develop.
Tell me how the Jazz do better!?
1:36 they did it last night and were whooping the second best team in the east, until they got pulled for tanking reasons.
Ok. Brother. Lauri was an all star in 23 playing SF.
He played the 4 exclusively last year and had a bad year.
He’s playing almost like a 2 guard this year and he’s averaging close to 28 and 7.
Lauri is a 3 who can play 4.
He and JJJ are FANTASTIC fits on both ends
Rachel is so correct in this😂
LAURI HAS BEEN PLAYING SMALL FORWARD FOR 3 YEARS
This guys kind of an idiot tbh😂
What defines “blockbuster trade” anymore? Cuz JJJ ain’t turning out ticket sales 😴
Chris is better than Shams at Shams own job, Shams is on fraud watch
Rachel spittin facts
Nba is the worst sport! I will never watch that crap ever again cause it went woke and doesn’t care about playing
Lauri resigned with a 5 year deal 2 years ago, knowing full well it was a rebuild. I wouldn't say he's languishing at all
Jazz literally lose their pick if they win too much. Kinda crap that it can happen.
So they have incentive to lose.
Eliminate the draft altogether — and allow the college players to be free agents
So tired of the "Utah cant get free agents". The more people talk about it, the more it becomes a thing. BYU seems to be able to pull in free agents.
The jazz would have beat the magic by 20 if the dont sit the starters . The jazz will be good next season
No one tanks like the Kings when they’re to win
Thumbs up for Rachel Nichols
After watching JJJ play I love this trade for the Jazz
Guys its not feasible that lauri plays the same position he has been playing for 3 years now wow has never watched the jazz lauri has been Sf amazing that he can play sf only a allstar at that sf idiot
Chris’ take is weak.
I think he missed on the two timeline take. You need positive production on rookie contracts so their first 4 years in the league. That’s one of the only ways to afford depth right now. So in the next 3 years they need Ace Bailey and whoever they draft next to help them win. OKC had it with Chet and J-Dub last year. If they were all 25-27 at the same timeline he is suggesting they would all have received extensions meaning you couldn’t afford them all.
Lauri made the all star at the 3 his first year in Utah…
What is tanking? It really depends on which person’s and side of the fence your on…right?
The players do not tank. They play for money 💰
The gm and front offices look 👀 at short and long term windows 🪟
The jazz simply hit the reset or rebuild out of financial necessity. Not because they didn’t have talent. The front office went all in and screwed up on the favor trade . Last year jazz have to pay for that mistake.
Both have points but his are full of holes 🕳️
She is far more reasonable. The jazz are showing their hand by buying now and why not?
Jazz are developing so fast that even the coach can’t figure out how to lose except by putting in their third stringer rookies and hope they can’t close 😢
For now the Jazz will miss the play and likely have more than a 50% chance to keep their pick.
If the Jazz can move down two spots then it’ll be guaranteed their pick whether top 4 or not.
It is possible for the Jazz to beat out the tankers but I’m not so certain they won’t get fined doing it 😂
Other teams are pissed 😡
For now we have losers that are winners but gaming the game.
I think they are a great fit… after seeing even that 1st game it looked very promising until Lauri and JJJ were benched no timeouts no nothing. Yeah… are we tanking again? This is something we are not going to do this year. WHAT? But of course we are doing it also this year because we need to protect our pick this year. Done that past 4 years now… Great! Now we better play for the next 4 years like our lives depended on it!!!!
I can't take this guy serious. He keeps saying the jazz can't play lauri,jjj and kessler at the same time because lauri can't play the 3. Dude lauri prefers playing at the 3 spot. Furthermore the jazz play a positionless motion offense. Please do some basic reading on the jazz my guy.
Munro and Banchio proved that you cannot stop tanking while rewarding the team with the worst record (at MIT Sloan Sports 2020). I think we should, instead, reward teams with the worst playoff track record. One bad season shouldn't result in a lottery pick when other teams have been bad for years without one. My students and I have proposed "Carry-Over Lottery Allocation", which rewards the worst teams without inducing tanking. See the paper on arXiv: "Carry-Over Lottery Allocation: Practical Incentive-Compatible Drafts"
didn't mannix also say there was no way Markkanen would still be with the Jazz after the deadline
Rachel looks like Red Aurbach next this idiot.
Don’t know why people have been so hung up with Lauri playing the 3 as he’d been doing it quite a lot before this. If they had center depth, it would’ve been their go to the entire season up to this point. Playing Hendrix or Philp had been the starting lineup when Walker was playing. If they didn’t need philp as both the back up for nurk and Lauri, for all we know he would have started instead if coming off the bench. Last season, they wanted to play Lauri at the 3 but John collins and Walker didn’t mesh well together. They’ve always wanted to play Markksman as their starting 3.