
Caleb Manser
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Caleb Manser
@CjChaze
I'm on Twitter to talk NBA and Utah Jazz, as well as some local college football. Former site expert of The J-Notes.





I don’t know if the Jazz would’ve tanked this year if they’d gotten Cooper Flagg. By making tanking less valuable the NBA incentivized the Jazz to do it longer. The goal is to make bad teams better as quickly as possible not moralize over the reasons why they’re bad.

If a team, under the new rules, was still found by Adam Silver’s office to be tanking, he would be able to take away that team’s draft pick, move it to the end of the lottery or first round and also increase fines into the millions of dollars, per @joevardon (h/t @APH00PS)


The NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts to its Board of Governors on Wednesday, with modifications expected to each before a formal vote in May, per ESPN sources. 1. 18 teams in draft lottery (seeds 7-15 in each conference) – flattened odds, with bottom 10 teams having an 8% chance, the remaining 20% odds distributed in decreasing order for 11 through 18, and and a lottery drawing for all 18 picks. 2) 22 teams in lottery using 2-year record (seeds 7-15, plus the four playoff first round exits in both conferences). Lottery teams would reach a minimum win total floor in each season, such as 25 wins. If a team falls short of the floor, it gets slotted to meet the floor. Top 4 drawn as part of lottery, as is currently. 3) 18 teams in a "5 by 5" lottery – bottom 5 teams have equal odds for the top pick, with lottery formed for picks 1-5. Bottom 5 teams have a floor at 10; those that fall out of top 5 get sorted in a separate drawing.


ALPEREN SENGUN SAVES THE GAME AND WALKS OFF DRIPPING IN BLOOD. INSANE



Jerrod Calhoun said Utah State getting a 9-seed after winning 28 games was "telling" in regard to the ceiling for a mid-major team. #Bearcats


Question: Who goes to the bench if our top-4 pick gets the start on opening night? 😬 My personal feeling is this: Why would we go through all of this trouble, pain, and misery to get a franchise changing player just for them to sit on the bench their first year? If we land Boozer, DP, or Dybantsa... they need to start. 😳





Utah Jazz rookie Ace Bailey last 5 games: — 24.0 PTS — 5.0 REB — 2.8 AST — 2.0 BLK — 1.6 TOV — 47.6 FG% — 45.5 3P% — 93.8 FT%





Can’t believe we got this guy with the 5th pick














