Utah Jazz

And also, you know, he won a title there.

Number 15, the Utah Jazz.

Market was 26th.

[laughs] This is, I almost pulled a full Cale.

I've watched so many games with Westbrook over the years.

There w- I think there was a series against, I wanna say it was the, the Jazz in 2018 when Donovan Mitchell obviously run riot against OKC.

There was one game-

Joe Barry, yeah

Like, do you know what? To be fair, I've said my, uh, the hot take I'm pinning to the glass is that my point guard's gonna be Rookie of the Year.

I know you've said, to be fair, you'll, you'll forget, but I remember.

You said that Utah Jazz are gonna make the playoffs this year, as State Sadarm.

So-

They were in the Mountain West.

We had the Jazz.

And that was pretty much the end of the story.

Had the B's AAA.

Well, how much better can you get? And I think the arrow is still pointing up.

It has not leveled out.

And for the Jazz, I think I'm as high on the Jazz as anybody.

Let's go.

His category value will always depend heavily on his efficiency and his threes and complementing that with the steals and the assist.

Now, if he develops into a January, like, secondary creator for the Utah Jazz, if he's working off Keontae George... that ceiling becomes much more interesting to me.

The defensive numbers from Summer League, if they carry over, they were encouraging.

We can't just project those out at face value to be like, oh yeah, he can go and do that in the NBA.

Well, we can't.

We can't just project that.

But if he can get a steal a game, not turn it over so much and be genuinely a second creator for the Utah Jazz, I do see some very good things for him.

Now he is a strong points league upside pick.

That scared me about

Kyrie a little bit, but I realized Dusty May is probably not even a Utah guy.

You're not playing him.

From the Thibodeau tree.

But no, I'm not going to list that MLS Cup as our breakthrough moment.

The breakthrough moment will happen when either the Mammoth or the Jazz pull this off.

And I'd say that the Mammoth are considerably better suited to do this than the Jazz are.

Maybe I'm wrong, but time will tell.

I think most people would agree with me.

Keyshawn George.

I say Keontae George, thinking that it's Utah Jazz point guard.

My fault.

Keontae George from him.

Think it's all hype and he's been injured a lot.

But really, that was just a Utah Jazz problem.

They were very much kind of putting the kid gloves on Kessler, not really wanting to push him because they know they're not going to be competitive.

So why would we push our franchise cornerstone every year if we're just playing for lottery balls, you know, for like ping pong balls? So Kessler's finally in the perfect situation playing with Luka Doncic, who loves the pick and roll guy and setting up his centers.

He was limited to just 42 games following that surgery that we just spoke about.

The 29-year-old is an eight-year NBA journeyman who also played for the Spurs, the Blazers, the Suns, the Jazz, and the Clippers.

The Knicks lost much of their front court depth this offseason with Mitchell Robinson and Ariel Huckporty signing with the Celtics and 76ers, respectively.

That's why they needed to add more size to the team.