 What's the word y'all y'all ready to talk about the NBA offseason? Oh, this is about to be amazing I'm about to get hella dramatic mostly for the click So yes, you might have got clickbaited if you knew around here, but brother got bills to pay All right, this is about to be the most important offseason in Utah jazz history All right, I can't say that for sure because ask me what they did in the 1996 offseason I couldn't I couldn't tell you that might have been the most important one But it didn't matter because they ended up getting to the finals and losing to Michael Jordan Anyway, so no matter what they did it. They really matter. But still this offseason is about to be extremely extremely crazy I'm happy to talk about offseason which y'all we're down to the NBA finals and now I have enough evidence to talk about this in the video Let me ramble a little bit because that's what this channel is about for three straight years We started this whole ramble series me holding the microphone talking basketball three years ago in the bubble Which is weird to say three finals ago not three years ago three finals ago And what I learned is that people want to hear you talk about the first round second round conference finals And then once we get down to the last two teams nobody really cares anymore Which is fine. I'm not a guy that's going to complain about numbers on the second channel But I I is a surprise it to me that we we watch basketball We talk about basketball every single day on this channel to get to this point where it is the finals and everybody like You know, we were more more concerned about the conference finals And I'm sure the numbers will get better if somebody gets like embarrassed, you know anytime anybody gets embarrassed That's a one attended for us as content creators, you know, I'm not rooting for people to get embarrassed Don't get me wrong But I'm just saying the numbers look a lot better when the suns get laughed off the court against dallas instead of like A normal series, you know, I'm saying, uh, but we're starting to off season talk because this weekend something crazy happened Okay, not really crazy But quince snider walked away from the Utah Jazz It felt inevitable that he wasn't going to be the coach next season Um, I thought it was more going to be a firing because when you're there for eight seasons and six of those seasons You you're losing a playoffs early and then the last year this year You play against a team who was missing their star player for a good chunk of the season or series and you lost Changes are gonna come with any organization. Everybody knows the first domino to fall when their is change is the head coach But instead of management instead of ownership saying quinn you're out the dough I guess quinn was the one to walk away They it seemed like they begged and pleaded to quince snider to stay around here because I think we can all agree Even though they've had their shortcomings as a roster and as a team We can all agree that quince snider is one of the better coaches in the nba I don't know if he number five Oh, no, if he number 10 or number 14, but he's one of the better ones You know, because 15 will make him the average and then he's one of the better coaches in all the basketball But like I said, this might be one of the most important Seasons off seasons in their history because after he left reports came out that don of a Mitchell is unsettled Unnerved and disappointed and guess who licked a lips every single nicks fan other than steven a smith Licked their lips because don knows a new york boy And new york might have assets slash capital to potentially go get the god to come home to play in the mecca There's other teams out there that can potentially have the assets to make these things work And I am a firm believer that the utah jazz are not going to trade don of the Mitchell unless it is the last result You're in utah. Utah does not sign free agents. They draft it. Well, I guess they didn't draft it They made it a great draft day trade two of them to get rudigo bearer Who was into the first round to get don of a Mitchell at 13 ish They made those draft day trades to build this two-man duo that have been all stars for the last couple seasons And trading that away is going to be tough unless you're getting back a player that you feel comfortable enough Is going to be an all-star caliber player don of a Mitchell if you did not know is a baller Is an absolute ball i'm watching him and jamal murray both drop 50 on each other once we get to the playoffs He has been a plough performing his career. Again. Yes, they've had their shortcomings with him as the hot The top guy, but if I am the ownership over there I know that our best chance of competence incompetent No, our best chance of being good is through don of a Mitchell stand on this team but If bro is unsettled Unnerved and disappointed those are the exact words the things might be getting kind of kind of juicy around here I thought the domino effects were gonna go on quince. Snyder gets fired Rudy garbage gets traded and now don of a Mitch was here for at least one more season Where he tries to figure out what's going on around him before he either decides that he wants to stay Or he walks us to the office to say free me But you got one of the best young players in the league people forget that don of a Mitchell is still what 25 26 years old We got a lot of experience. He's got his own signature shoot It's not a lot of players in the NBA to have a signature shoe with a top brand because I know I noticed people out there like Matthew Delavidova with a signature shoe So I don't mean that much but like with a top brand like adidas This is a very marketable very cool dude And you don't want to just lose that you don't want to just create that away unless it is your last result Or or unless you're getting back in return and you can convince your fans that it was well worth it But any Utah Jazz fan I've talked to and it's let's be honest in my life in my personal life I don't have a I don't know a single person that's a fan of the Utah Jazz But there's this thing called the internet and I know some people on the internet that are Utah Jazz fans They are relatively fed up with these short comments You had seasons where you're the number one team You've had seasons where you had the three-time defensive player of the year You've been the number one defense and you get to the playoffs and boom everything collapses Whether be the players or the coaching or whatever you collapse you collapse you collapse and it's it's unfortunate for them Because they've had seasons where I was pretty confident in their ability To make a run and they haven't really done that and I would say ownership for the most part has been pretty solid In a sense that they have not been afraid to try to tackle some of the biggest holes When they needed a good point guard, they went to get my collie But now they have this huge hole and I guess let's take this is taken away from my previous statement This huge hole has been there for four seasons now and they still haven't covered it up They have no perimeter defense and and all of that falls back on rutigo bear because a when when Your whole goal is to protect the paint and somebody is on the corner Well, we've had this conversation before rutigo bear is not the reason why they've been losing any series Actually, let me show you some stats and you're like, oh kenny the stats Don't mean nothing if i'm watching it in this the stats matter and let me show you let me show you This is a rutigo bear fan piece now. This supposed to be about the entire off season Let's just defend rutigo bear for 26 minutes And if you go to youtube and you type in kenny rutigo bear There's a there's a video named kenny being a rutigo bear fin for 29 minutes Damn, that's a long time to be defended rutigo bear I actually interviewed rutigo bear is a very cool dude. He followed me back on twitter Which always is a good sign for me if I Entertains a talent for a decent amount that they go out of their way to follow me back I feel like I was successful so shout to rudy I'm not defending him because he followed me on twitter. I just actually watched the basketball All right, so this is from mba university. Um, I didn't know I wasn't following you I got to hit you with that follow among Bigs who primarily serve as defensive anchor meaning that they spend a lot of time and drop coverage This is uh, we don't we don't go through this b-ball index headshot If you are high on this list meaning that like the tall portion You are attacked at the rim a ton if you are low then you are avoided at the rim The further right you go. These are the dudes that finish better dudes finish better Against you and if you're on the left then people finish worse against you. Okay, cool rutigo bear is in this this bottom left corner Which means that people are afraid to attack him and when they do they suck at it So rutigo bear is amazing at his job. Okay. Why am I defending him right now? I don't know, but I just wanted to show you that like he's elite jaren's actually junior pretty elite too Eventually, um players are gonna realize that you should not attack jaren. This man Jared alan is getting attacked and people aren't learning their lesson So these are our top three rim protectors in all the basketball According to the these statistics and just if you're wondering once we get over here, um, not not this is not the place You want to be I'm saying nuggets. This is not the place you want to be Anyway, I thought it was gonna go queen snider rutigo bear thing If it's the last risota and and that if Mitch walks into the office a I want out that would be the last thing Um, and and maybe that still is there was some conversations about what is what is rutigo bear? It's market out there in the league. I think majority of mba Nerds and mba people that are in front offices understand the value that can be rutigo bear But then you look at his contract and I'm one of the biggest rutigo bear fans out there I would not want to be paying bro for the next five seasons at that type of clip He's making money for a guy that can be your go-to score He's making money for a guy that's taking up a huge chunk of your salary cap And though he might be one of the greatest defensive players this decade I don't know if I want to be the one paying him that if he's almost a zero on offense And don't talk to me about screen assist because I know screen assists are a thing But I've watched teams be six six ensured against him and he has not made them pay now Maybe if you gave him a point guard or somebody that passed in the ball means a little bit better But still you know like kevin o'connor came out an article one of his things that he questions Like what is the market for rutigo bear and he talked about or they talked about Um, the toronto raptors being a team and we we talked about this in my podcast like a month or so ago What the hell do you give up and then there's rumors about ojana nobi potentially potentially winning out? I didn't really read into those rumors too much because there was basically no source other than like when he's playing with scottie barns He plays worse that's not that's that doesn't mean he wants out But if he does want out boom there's a perimeter defense But if you are trading rutigo bear, you're not going to get back the the necessary value Defensively and if you're trading rutigo bear for whatever the package may be Will that be enough to convince donov amitua to stay in utah? Or is it inevitable that you're going to not only have to split this pairing? But reset the whole roster because no matter what you get for ruti It will not be enough to satisfy What what the needs of donov amitua is and i i commend players that have this patience within organizations Um because we've seen players i won't use the word rot because that feels kind of Dissingenuous we've seen players be on teams for a long time where they believe in their front office They believe in whatever the coast they are and like all the fans around them are like bro free yourself It's inevitable but they're not going to get you a championship caliber team And i might be going towards that with with donov amitua if i'm being honest After all of this broke bleach report slash andy bailey put up top landing spots for jazz Is donov amitua if utah trade star gar I like to set if they trade them because again, it is it is a very big if him being oh, what is the wording again? Unsettled unnerved and disappointed could just be and i think they're talking about it even here This is kevin o'connor's piece over at the ringer. Um, it could just be because he didn't see this coming or he just is curious So what the hell is about to happen next? You know i would be unsettled if my head coach dropped out even if i wanted to stay so Again not looking too much into that But those are some some really good words that made the mba twitter talk So i have not looked at this article from andy bailey So let's figure out what the top landing spots for donov amitua would be if he decided to request a trade Um and they give you right there was going on okay We knew that the nicks were going to be on this list and they were saying rj beard immanuel quickly evan forney Eight in a 2024 first round pick okay, and i'm trying to think about it from what does this mean for the future of our team What does this mean for our our fans? Will they be excited if we got back this package or do we believe that we have some pieces that are going to be building Blocks for us to potentially win a championship five years ten years down the line Do we believe that the pieces that we get back are valuable enough to maybe trade later to get something big? Like you have to think not just one step ahead two steps ahead and if that is what i'm doing with this trade I am not a huge fan of it rj looks like he's going to be pretty good Even though the advanced stats and the finishing stats and the three-point stats don't look great The i i think you got to do both by the way i test and like the stats the i test when i watch rj Looks like he's a real good hooper if you allow him to be rj But even with that even with quickly even with evan forney eight in his 2024 first round pick i'm not excited I feel like this is a trade you're like up We got to do something and that's the something that you're going to do I think that you can get a bigger and better package from the nicks if they are desperate I don't know if they will be desperate because leon rose and company over there haven't really been desperate since they've You know taken over the the new york nicks But if they become desperate and they know that donov mitchell wants to be there That's how you get teams getting super finesse when donov mitchell says he wants When donov mitchell says he wants to go there There is a world and i'm thinking about like the carmelo anthony trade Which is still the nicks everybody knew that he wanted to go there the nicks overpaid to make it a reality But we've also seen times where a player has a short list of three teams and now into the team That that once that player is using that as ammo like you can't trade him to any of these other teams We are your only option so it could go either way it can go either way Number two is the miami heat this is the one that's going to come out a bunch Especially when you have brally bill donov mitchell just anybody that can score the ball in the half court The miami heat are going to be attached to it because tyler hero wants a bag this off season Duncan robison was has 54 million dollars guaranteed left on his contract and he didn't even play in the playoffs Or mario seven showed flashes in the minutes that he was given and then two first round picks I'm being completely honest with you if if i'm the miami heat and this is on the table and the utah jazza interested I am doing this one hundred percent Of the time and i think it's mostly because i can't say i won't use the word I'm not convinced on tyler hero because that even that feels weird But the ceiling of tyler hero and i know i'm talking about a kid that is only a couple years into his career So I it'll be it's weird to talk about ceilings But it feels like the ceiling of tyler hero won't hit what the ceiling of donov mitchell is And you think about the age that is kyle larry you think about the age that is jimmy butler You need to accelerate this you're one game away from being in the finals with with tyler hero not being there These are three players that did not play for you this playoff run basically and we can replace that And get back dono who be dropping fifties i'm not worried about the defense because You just had tyler hero and ducky robber second minutes in the regular season and you were one of the top defenses in the league I'm not worried about that. I'm not worried about that jimmy still gonna defend kyle is still gonna fence at the most part and then bam is one of the Best seven five to seven defenders in all the basketball So I wouldn't worry about that, but I don't know if i'm the utah jazz that this is enough to get me happy This is going to be crazy. I think the utah jazz fans would be interested to get this package And I'll just leave it at that number three Atlanta goes all in John collins de andre hunter a first round pick or two first round picks a clue in the 2022 I don't know what the 2022 pick is for the Atlanta hawks. I don't know where that ended up being Are you gonna tell me any article? They're not gonna tell me Um, but it's it's not high But it's not low it is somewhere in that middle because they you know i'm saying disappointed But they weren't the worst team in basketball John collins de andre hunter and two first round picks is interesting Um, I don't know who the hell scores for the utah jazz there This this trade for me is if we have decided to trade, um Rudy gobert and Donovan Mitchell That's what this trade is for me. I think de andre hunter is a stud bro Just has to somehow get and stay healthy. We saw that in his last game where they got eliminated He actually played his ass off, but he has to get healthy same thing with john collins He was dealing with injuries all season I think it was a hand injury at the end of it These are two players that can absolutely ball But I don't know if I could convince my fans that these two are the replacement for Donovan Mitchell Unless you're telling them, hey, we're hitting a full reset. These are two building blocks for that reset But then again, John collins is not like you on a rookie deal. They extended them I don't last one is that wild card from indy Malcolm brogdon buddy healed a first round pick a pick swap and a first round pick the the 2022 first round pick Is what number seven? I don't what number pick is this? I wish I knew things a little bit better. This is the top 10 pick. Let's just say that the 2022 pick You got Malcolm brogdon and buddy healed that can help you compete for compete for a playoff spot We're also having one of the top picks in this year's draft You got the swap and then you got the unprotected 2024 if oh and you're giving up race on you If I'm the indiana pacers, I do this 100% of the time Can you convince Donovan Mitchell that this is a better place to play than utah? That is that is the real question I've never been to utah So I can't talk about the culture of the the arena or the city around or in So lake city, but I know in indy they ride for their players I've been there a couple different times and it felt like a colis basketball game in the best possible way Felt like I was in a coliseum and even though this team wasn't very good the time that I went It was it felt great. Um, so I don't know. I would pull the trigger if I'm indy I don't think I'll pull the trigger if I'm the jazz and that's what I mean, though We just saw four traits from a credible author Out there who put together good articles here and there and yet I didn't see a single trait that I would be extremely excited about if I was the utah If I were the owner of the utah jazz or danie angel the guy over there Um, so I'm very interested to see what happens this off season Who's gonna be the new head coach? Uh, people could be asking me if you were, you know Hiring right now. Who would you look for? I am big on Coaches that haven't got a chance to be head coaches just yet I feel like there are just so many different assistant coaches just sitting on the sideline of some organizations that deserve a chance And I'm just looking at recent history. I mean if you get the right guy That first year coach could change the entire culture the entire dynamic of an of an organization And one of the reasons quince snider stepped down He said that he believed that the team needed change And one of the changes is not bringing in terry stocks or bringing in mike dan toni You know, I think the change can be a fresh face and a fresh voice So let me know what you think about the utah jazz and their upcoming off season. Um, and I'll be in that comment section Appreciate you. Peace