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Following Potential 2018 Draftees

stitches said:
I mean.. 11 of the next 16 are on the road and we are 3-17 on the road so far on the road... it doesn't seem to matter the quality of opposition. We are just bad on the road. We might lose 13 of the next 16 and be at about .339 winning percentage ... this is about no. 5-no.6 lottery position. Then the trade deadline comes and DL might have a legit case for trading most pieces that are not part of the future of this team but still help us win some games.
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At this point I think the best we could do is 6 but would be happy with 7/8. As soon as Gobert went down the first time we should have hit the tank button. Win streak zapped a lot of the upside. Chicago, Bkn, Charlotte, should all pass us if we tank a little harder. Phoenix will likely out tank us... LAL suck too much but they have no tank motivation so who knows.

6/7 gives us okayish odds at hitting top 3 and let’s us be in a position to scoop up someone who falls... Porter or Young I could see sliding just a hair. If not take one of the bridges.
 
Also if for some reason you end up at 5 with Ayton I would hope we’d have some trade partners lined up. Move back a few spots but take a good haul to do so. If we are at 5 the prospects around that range are Bamba, Jackson, so teams with centers needs may have made pitches on moving up... if Ayton slid I would think they would up their ante.

I don’t want anymore ill fitting pieces that we try to make work. Time to have a full and complete team that compliments each other. If they love Ayton then move Gobert.
 
6'8" long armed SF freshman Kezie Okpala, who got a late start because he needed to get his grades high enough to play for Stanford, is yet another possible 1st rd talent 3'n'D type..

I watched this kid bust shaq's sons *** really bad in a game last year he dropped like 50 on him (the oldest one, shaqs youngest son might even be better than Shareef btw)... Very impressive kid, he'll pass all the psych profiling with flying colors -- easily one of my favorite 4-star freshman, he's easily got some of the highest upside of the entire 4-star crop...


TBPFH -- Stanford has the most slept on crop of SF's in the nation, with Okpala, da Silva and Pugh.
 
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If there's a Gobert spectrum for giant shotblockers, Pascal Chukwu at Syracuse is on there in the low end range...

He's a legit 7'2" with a 7'8" wingspan.. no doubt he's gonna get several NBA looks, could have more upside than some of the C's we've seen taken in the 50-60 range in recent drafts.

doesn't shoot much but there's real upside with him, it's one of those situations where his age isn't truly telling about his upside, he's one of those bigs who's coordination is still catching up with his height in his early 20's.

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Tony Carr is a 4-star Sophomore PG at PSU.. He is one of the lead guards I located in that hyped PG crop from the HS class fo 2016, that was kind of overlooked and would be rated much higher in a standard PG crop...



Anyways, guess what? I'ma be right again... He's actually getting some 1st rd hype. Stong built 6'4" PG with a J... He's like that kid Ray McCallum from years back that won the Kings the Summer League title, but better, and tougher..
 
Revolution 9 said:
I dont think we go any lower than that. I predict we draft 11 or 12. With Gobert coming back, and a softer schedule we will get more wins.
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Okay, but if Hood and Rubio aren't having good scoring games, the Jazz don't really have enough offense to win a lot of games. Rudy will help hold opponent's scoring down a bit, which helps.

Yesterday against the Heat, Mitchell and Hood had decent offensive games, but Rubio went 0 for 6 and finished with 4 points. That was the difference in the game. All three of those guys have to score to make the Jazz competitive.
 
Catchall said:
It's justifiable to take Jackson or Porter Jr. at 5. At this point, Ayton is probably expected to go top 4 with Doncic, Young and Bagley.
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Well that's not the point of a hypothetical question, you know, to bring it what is expected to happen. It's to ask what they would do if the hypothetical scenario occurred.
 
Catchall said:
Okay, but if Hood and Rubio aren't having good scoring games, the Jazz don't really have enough offense to win a lot of games. Rudy will help hold opponent's scoring down a bit, which helps.

Yesterday against the Heat, Mitchell and Hood had decent offensive games, but Rubio went 0 for 6 and finished with 4 points. That was the difference in the game. All three of those guys have to score to make the Jazz competitive.
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Actually I thought the opposite. Because Rubio took less shots and was less involved in actively trying to score, the Jazz played better and almost beat a good team on the road.
 
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