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Jazz select Udoka Azubuike with pick 27 & trade Tony Bradley + pick 38 to the Pistons

Man, y'all need to chill about this Jazz draft. Even if everything clicked for the Jazz in a very positive way this season, we're still a 2nd rd team at best in the playoffs. Chill and relax~ lol
 
kabenac said:
Sounds like the front office loved this guy so I'll give it a chance. I'm assuming they like his athleticism and the fact he can play defense.

If we move Rudy it will make more sense.
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Okay but this organization sucks at the draft so maybe you shouldn't.

We have ZERO players on the roster that we actually drafted, and two we traded for on draft night. If the Nuggets didn't gift us those guys we'd be the ****ing Kings right now.
 
Here's a quick peek at where the two former Jayhawks were projected to go from the latest batch of mock drafts:

The Athletic

Azubuike: No. 43 to Sacramento

Dotson: No. 33 to Minnesota

ESPN.com

Azubuike: No. 41 to San Antonio

Dotson: No. 44 to Chicago

Yahoo Sports

Azubuike: No. 37 to Washington

Dotson: No. 33 to Minnesota

CBS Sports

Azubuike: No. 45 to Orlando

Dotson: No. 54 to Indiana

NBADraft.net

Azubuike: No. 43 to Sacramento

Dotson: No. 35 to Sacramento
 
Just trade all our picks for overrated point guards from now on... that’s smarter than what we did.
 
"The KU coach noted Azubuike’s recent 37-inch vertical jump, which was the highest by a center ever measured at the pre-draft combine, and Dotson’s three-quarter court sprint time that was the second fastest of the past decade.

“And we've been telling everybody forever that Dok’s as athletic as anybody we've had here period. And I don't think people ever bought into it.”

“I don't think that gets them drafted necessarily a lot higher,” Self added. “But I do think it makes them more attractive. (If a team has it) down to one or two guys, they may go with that athletic ability. So I'm excited for both of them. I think they both help themselves during this COVID time.”

Regardless of where the two Jayhawks are selected, Self said their chances at NBA success will come down to how well they fit the situation and how willing they are to accept roles that are vastly different from the ones they played at KU.

“Being very realistic, if they could both be backups, that would be an unbelievable role for both of them going into a rookie campaign,” Self said. “They're going to have to learn to play with others and make others better and (blend) in and those sorts of things.”



KU Sports

Wednesday night, nearly five full months after they were expecting to know, former Kansas basketball All-Americans Udoka Azubuike and Devon Dotson finally will find out where their NBA careers will begin. It’s draft day in the NBA. Five weeks after the pandemic-altered 2019-20 season ended with...
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Ya, no bueno
 
So I just wanted to come back to a point that I think is very important:

We do not have the luxury of pissing away draft picks. And save for Donovan and Rudy - who we didn't even technically draft - that's all we've done for the past ten years. We would be the Kings if the Nuggets didn't **** those up.

This is also the first test of new ownership and it looks bad.
 
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