NBA Rumors: Lakers among teams lked to Rudy Gay - Silver Screen and Roll

Contents:

• REPORT: RUDY GAY AGRE TO TWO-YEAR, $12.1 LN AL WH JAZZ
• WHY IS RUDY GAY GETTG MUT FOR THE JAZZ?
• GRADG THE JAZZ: RUDY GAY ACCEPTS HIS ROLE WH GRACE
• RUDYGAY
• WHAT DO THE RUDY GAY SIGNG MEAN FOR THE UTAH JAZZ?
• THE RUDY GAY NICKNAME DILEMMA
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• UTAH JAZZ, RUDY GAY AGREE TO 2-YEAR AL NBA EE AGENCY
• WHAT DO RUDY GAY’S ADDN BRG TO THE UTAH JAZZ — AND N HE HELP THEM GET BETTER FENSIVELY?
• RUDY GAY ISN’T EXPECTED BACK SOON, BUT HE TELLS UTAH JAZZ FANS NOT TO BE WORRIED
• RUDY GAY MAK A BIG FIRST IMPRSN ON THE UTAH JAZZ: ‘HE’S A HELL OF A PLAYER 26 SEASONS ’
• 2021 UTAH JAZZ PLAYER PROFILE: RUDY GAY
• RUDY GAY
• RUDY GAY IS GETTG CLOSER TO HIS UTAH JAZZ BUT. HIS SHOOTOUTS WH JOE INGL HAVE PAVED THE WAY
• UTAH JAZZ SIGN RUDY GAY TO 2-YEAR AL

REPORT: RUDY GAY AGRE TO TWO-YEAR, $12.1 LN AL WH JAZZ

Gay chose the Jazz over the Lakers, Celtics, and other terted suors, likely large part bee of money and the player optn on the send season.

So, I thk ’s time that we exame what’s gog on wh is clear to most people watchg the game that he is not playg like the Rudy Gay of years gone by. Even sual fans n see he’s slow fensively, he mak bad cisns on offense and that spe all, he is still gettg mut ahead of Simone Fontecch or Ochai you dig to some of Gay’s dividual stats, don’t help his se much.

WHY IS RUDY GAY GETTG MUT FOR THE JAZZ?

I thk the explanatn is nuanced and there are many factors that are playg to — and this certaly won’t help you unrstand why Gay is gettg playg time — I’d like to dispel any belief that the Jazz are playg Gay so that they n crease his tra value.

GRADG THE JAZZ: RUDY GAY ACCEPTS HIS ROLE WH GRACE

He do not have posive value and the Jazz are well we’re gog to look at thgs purely om a numbers perspective has to be noted that the Jazz explibly play better wh Gay on the urt than they do whout Cleang The Glass, the Jazz have an efficiency differential of +12. I n’t expla why or how the Jazz are puttg up those numbers when Gay is on the urt, nsirg his low productn and some of his qutnable cisn-makg on both ends, but is you pair that wh the fact that the Gay is only playg about 15 mut per game, the Jazz are gog to happily live wh the rults, even if don’t look great when ’s there are reasons I believe Gay is playg that go beyond the numbers and beyond the season, Qu Snyr benched Gay and the veteran player was not pleased.

On media day this season he likened to the reporters g to the terview room and not beg able to ask qutns, not beg allowed to do their realy would be more like a reporter dog a bad job and then beg moted for someone who was dog a better job, but that’s not how Gay saw thgs.

Multiple sourc wh knowledge of the tone and tenor of the Jazz locker room last season have said that Gay’s displeasure wh the suatn add to the tensn that was already stewg.

RUDYGAY

This season, Will Hardy, who has known Gay for a long time due to their San Anton nnectn, has given Gay a small role on the team and has said multiple tim that he has relied on Gay not only as a soundg board but also as a veteran to help gui the young players on the team.

WHAT DO THE RUDY GAY SIGNG MEAN FOR THE UTAH JAZZ?

He’s been helpful, has offered advice, directn and, if you’re gettg veteran mentorship, a reliable source of wisdom and all you have to give up for that is 12-15 mut a night and a uple of bad shots, ’s a pretty good al, pecially when those mut aren’t directly ntributg to losg and when you look at what uld hypothetilly happen if you cid to go another Hardy cid to pletely bench Gay to play Fontecch or Agbaji, Gay might react the same way that he did when Snyr moted him. I believe that Hardy is probably dog Gay a solid exchange for beg a good soldier and so long as he do that, there’s no reason not to give him some playg urse, this n’t last forever. ”Hardy and the Jazz brass know that Agbaji and Fontecch are servg of some reps and a chance to velop wh the game and that Gay is not a part of the Jazz’s extend future.

Edor’s note: Seventh a seri evaluatg and gradg every player that was on the Jazz’s fal 2022-23 evaluatg an NBA player’s performance, expectatns the 2022 offseason, when lookg back at the performance of the players on the Utah Jazz roster, I gave Rudy Gay a D for his ntributns and said this:“Rudy Gay was billed as the player that was gog to solve a lot of the Jazz’s problems and then he turned out to not solve any of them.

THE RUDY GAY NICKNAME DILEMMA

”This season, Gay was neher expected to play well nor to ntribute to wng, and that really chang the way that we should look at how he Gay — Gra: B+.

He was angry, and that anger didn’t help the already tense locker while there’s always multiple sis to every story — om Gay’s perspective he was brought to the fold and told that he would have a big role, that he would be playg and that he was need — the fact is that Gay did not live up to expectatns for the 2021-22 to the 2022-23 season, wh a different ach, a different roster of players and different overall expectatns for the team, Gay was given an entirely different was gog to play a ltle b, not a lot, and the level of his on-urt productn was not necsarily important.

It’s not easy to accept that you aren’t the fol pot of a roster, that Father Time has ught most imprsive thg that Gay did this season was accept his place the NBA, and he did wh grace.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

He wasn’t takg valuable time away om other players and he was helpg the younger players on the urt when he was out talkg wh Walker Ksler, Ochai Agbaji and Coll Sexton as well as members of the Jazz achg staff, seems that this season, there was a shift approach and attu for Gay.

But when asked to take a step back and to foster the youth of the roster and help them to mature, Gay did so and he ma a difference. Joed ESPN 2017In a al that livers the anchise dramatic fancial flexibily, the Atlanta Hawks are tradg forward John Colls to the Utah Jazz, sourc told ESPN on Hawks are acquirg forward Rudy Gay and a future send-round pick for Colls, who is owed $78 ln over the next three seasons, sourc said. The Jazz were an offensive revelatn unr first-year ach Will Hardy, and Colls' arrival uld help Utah return to the Wtern Conference playoffs next Hawks and Jazz have discsed numero eratns of the al for over a year, but the reali of the loomg chang the league's new llective bargag agreement left the balance of Colls' ntract difficult to move for a return of assets -- siar to the Goln State Warrrs' recent unloadg of Jordan Poole and the $130 ln-pl owed Atlanta, the acquisn of Gay -- who exercised his $6.

Rudy Gay will wear a Jazz uniform after agreeg to a two-year al wh the Jazz on do the 15-year veteran brg to the table and what do the Jazz signg him mean for the rt of the team and the future? Standg at 6-foot-8, Gay played the last four seasons wh the San Anton Spurs and has proven to be pable at multiple posns, spendg most of his time playg the stretch four.

UTAH JAZZ, RUDY GAY AGREE TO 2-YEAR AL NBA EE AGENCY

But, if the Jazz want to play wh a small-ball five, Gay n fill that role easily as well as play some mut at small reer averag of 16. The posnal versatily om Gay would have phed Niang out of the rotatn and Niang, who beme a ee agent after the 2020-21 season, was due for a bump Gay is certaly viewed as an upgra at the forward posn, he’s not a long term fix (nsirg his age and a short ntract), and as soon as next season, the Jazz uld be lookg once aga for answers at that, signed g the taxpayer mid-level exceptn, has seen some of his srg productn fall off recent years, but he still remas a reliable and versatile fenr, which is right le wh what the Jazz he spent the last few years San Anton and Sacramento before that, Gay started his NBA reer wh the Memphis Grizzli after beg selected No.

That means that when the Jazz start the 2021-22 season, Gay will be rned wh Mike Conley, whom he played wh for more than five seasons at the begng of both of their reers. If Gay and Conley n rekdle some of the chemistry they had on the urt while they were Memphis, that would fely be a bon for the Jazz.

WHAT DO RUDY GAY’S ADDN BRG TO THE UTAH JAZZ — AND N HE HELP THEM GET BETTER FENSIVELY?

More so, they have two Rudy Gs, which mak thgs a ltle difficult, and now that Rudy Gay is playg, this problem needs Thursday night, Gay’s but for the Utah Jazz, there was a pot when head ach Qu Snyr lled for Rudy. But when Gay and Rudy Gobert both were at attentn, there was some mor ’s jersey number is 8, and at some pot somebody suggted the name “Ocho. Not only did he lead the team srg on Thursday his 18 mut, 27 sends off the bench, but last season Gay only managed to sre 20-or-more pots twice and he’s done his first outg wh the Jazz after not playg a sgle game sce May week on ‘Unsalvageable’.

Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype.

While his on-urt productn certaly isn't where ed to be at this stage of his reer, Gay still do posss the reque size and strength to pete. Standg at 6’8” and sportg a 7’3” wgspan, Gay has the exact type of proportns the Lakers lacked their seri agast the Denver Nuggets particular.

RUDY GAY ISN’T EXPECTED BACK SOON, BUT HE TELLS UTAH JAZZ FANS NOT TO BE WORRIED

Dpe the limatns and drop-offs that e wh age, there is potentially a role for Gay somewhere the league as he has proved to still be a steady ntributor when given the chance. While remas to be see if that role is found Los Angel for Gay, probably behoov the Lakers to look elsewhere to fill what is an obv need or at least swg for upsi wh a younger player.

ESPNAug 3, 2021, 11:37 AM ETFree-agent forward Rudy Gay has agreed to a ee-agent al wh the Utah Jazz, his agent, Raymond Brothers of Roc Natn Sports, told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on two-year al clus a player optn and rn Gay wh pot guard Mike Conley. Redick — three of those guys have sentially had pretty siar rol over their entire reers, and Millsap’s perimeter-oriented revolutn happened a ago, Gay is a ltle b different. Maybe that’s a potential solutn for the my-turn, your-turn ncern: have Gay screen for Clarkson wh an empty pat, and let eher take advantage of the space afford.

I thk that’s a pretty good parison for Gay’s level of playmakg: jt like Bogdanovic, Gay is playg pick and roll, attackg closeouts, and playg isolatn wh the tentn of srg first. In general, rather than takg that extra dribble that Bogdanovic do to get eper to the pat for a layup — a dribble that uld get stripped — Gay is jt gonna pull up and take the midrange shot.

RUDY GAY MAK A BIG FIRST IMPRSN ON THE UTAH JAZZ: ‘HE’S A HELL OF A PLAYER 26 SEASONS ’

Here’s how Gay stacks up wh the rt of the Jazz rebounds per mute last season:Now, ’s worth notg that his reboundg has cled for the last two seasons, and ’s likely that he’s not as bouncy as he was two years ago. So, for example, here’s him on Caris LeVert — Levert thks he n take Gay jt wh a ltle shoulr shimmy and some speed, and ’s not gog to the other hand, agast the ele ballhandlg typ, he’s gog to stggle. On one hand, that tak advantage of his skills at timg strips and blocks helpg, dog stuff like the other hand, a better guard regniz Gay’s help there, and jt kicks out to the open three.

2021 UTAH JAZZ PLAYER PROFILE: RUDY GAY

But A) Gay will probably play mostly bench mut equently not wh Gobert, and B) that approach has led to some disappotg fensive rults two playoffs a row now, as the Jazz’s perimeter fenrs n’t keep anyone ont. This is a rare missed block-out by Gay — he actually verbally regniz his mistake durg the play, which I love — but he’s able to rever and get the block on the ensug putback Jazz didn’t have wgs who were makg that play last season. If you nsir Gay good value for the $6 ln per year ntract he’s gettg, and a good pickup by the Jazz, you’re probably gog to be relatively happy.

RUDY GAY

8 pick the 2006 NBA Draft is about to enter his 17th profsnal the ee agent market has oled down signifintly after the ial surge — partially due to the Damian Lillard and Jam Harn tra stalemat — Gay is certaly a player worth the teams listed, Goln State and Los Angel reprent the bt opportuny for Gay to pete for his first NBA champnship.

RUDY GAY IS GETTG CLOSER TO HIS UTAH JAZZ BUT. HIS SHOOTOUTS WH JOE INGL HAVE PAVED THE WAY

There’s somethg to be said for veteran know-how and Gay’s learship the locker room, but he’s no longer prsurg the rim as a driver or creatg his own looks.

UTAH JAZZ SIGN RUDY GAY TO 2-YEAR AL

Whether or not the Bulls — or any team — should be playg Gay real mut at this pot is an open qutn, but he has earned the benef of the doubt over the last two s. 27, 2021 Salt Lake ’s both a glass-half-empty way and a glass-half-full way to look at Rudy Gay’s Friday, the Utah Jazz forward mented publicly for the first time on his offseason surgery to repair his right heel, the same surgery that has kept him out of the Jazz’s preason actn so far and will ntue to keep him out through the early part of the regular said that the heel had ed him pa that he’d been “playg wh for a while” — five years, fact. And fally, he cid last season that the pa had gotten to be too much, and he’d unrgo the surgery to rrect both Gay and the team are beg extremely ut about his return, too.

The prry is the playoffs, and the team will sacrifice regular-season mut the the glass-half-full aspect is this: Gay was a pretty solid NBA ntributor over the last five seasons, playg through pa. Even though he hasn’t been any gam so far, Gay has been part of the team’s shootg ntts, fdg himself groups wh all liber of marksmen, om Rudy Gobert to Joe Friday, his practice also nsisted of some work the post: both srg wh an assistant ach fendg, and learng how the Jazz might move players around him to fd open cutters and short, ’s not that Gay don’t want to be around, or that he’s takg easy.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz forward Rudy Gay (8) heads down urt after skg a 3-pot shot, NBA actn between Utah Jazz and Toronto Raptors, at Vivt Arena, Salt Lake Cy, on Thursday, Nov. 18, Gay’s but wh the Utah Jazz on Thursday night was, by pretty much all measur, a spectacular succs: 20 pots, five rebounds, two assists jt over 18 mut … ridiculoly effective shootg … solid fendg … and an adorg home crowd absolutely we’re npickg, he wasn’t perfect: He did miss one of his eight shots, after all.