Please tell me that's not true.
It's not true. Never could have happened. It was about as likely as a tornado in Salt Lake, or a black guy becoming president. Does that help you feel better?
Anyway, just before the draft everyone knew the Jazz were targeting a pg. Jazz brought in all the top talent, There was a workout with Larkin, Schroder, and McCollum. The Media seemed to home in on McCollum, he was a terrific three point shooter, he was mature, a leader, a small school who wanted to play anywhere. McCollum was saying all the right things: he loved the city, he liked small programs, he was mature, ready to contribute, I think he had the same agent as Hayward or something like that, etc etc.
Then the Jazz drafted trey, who refused to work out for them, and whom they had only interviewed in Chicago because the NBA made Trey do mandatory interviews.
McColum has a screw in his foot that supposedly scared the Jazz off. Instead, they chose the player with parents who have a couple of loose screws. And the rest is history.
Small market teams can't succeed when they make drafting mistakes. This is just another time the Jazz have hurt themselves by drafting the wrong guy. Speaking of which, Trey Lyles looked awesome tonight.