J. Kyle Mann

I agree with you guys.

I just think like just getting that weight off your back probably feels pretty nice.

You could enjoy flag without the encumbrance of everything else that's like been befallen this team.

So I get it.

Let's talk about Jaron Jackson who went to Utah.

Another instance of a team kind of turning the page here.

I love this for the jazz, a team that already looked in some instances to be too good to

in order to continue to bottom out.

I think we've been saying this about them for a little while now, but they did a nice job of making sure that their defense was just virtually unplayable on most nights.

And so they find themselves at the bottom here again, but yeah,

Laurie just seemed too good in order to keep him out there or to move on from him because he seems like a real foundational player.

Keontae George, as we've talked about several times this season, looks like a real player there.

And so you get Walker Kessler back next season, resign him after he comes back healthy, and you pop in Jaron Jackson.

All of a sudden, this looks like a big old team.

That really could be a force almost as immediately as next year even.

Yeah, I do like that it gives them an identity right off the bat.

And while Laurie has played more at the three, I believe in the Cleveland years, he's basically just a jumbo movement shooter to begin with.

So he really functions offensively as a three to begin with.

I also love the versatility it provides because he's

Kessler, I think is going to net out both in contract and play style, something around like what Jaron Allen is, where he's probably overqualified to only be playing 20 to 25 minutes.