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Top 10 Best Jazz Players of All Time (and the rest) - FINAL LIST!!!

Very fun, thanks LogGrad. The hardest guy for me to rank was Kirilenko. He had a unique skillset and was really fun to watch, but it never seemed like he had much of an impact on winning outside of the 03-04 season. Part of the problem was his inability to stay consistently healthy from 2005 onward. I ended up leaving him out of the top 10, although I can understand why he landed where he did in the rankings.
 
Moonlight Graham said:
Very fun, thanks LogGrad. The hardest guy for me to rank was Kirilenko. He had a unique skillset and was really fun to watch, but it never seemed like he had much of an impact on winning outside of the 03-04 season. Part of the problem was his inability to stay consistently healthy from 2005 onward. I ended up leaving him out of the top 10, although I can understand why he landed where he did in the rankings.
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Felt the same way about AK, so I left him off my list.

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Most overrated player on these lists is Ingles by far. I get you guys love him but ahead of Okur/Millsap/Bailey/Favors/Robinson/Malone is just a joke.
 
Jazz Spazz said:
Now it would be a different list if it was just favorite players, or players that have the most odd or funniest stories to remember.
Can we include coaches and media too?

OP impersonating a cop
Ingles and his awesome interviews and off court stuff
Pillow forts
Sloan and his Sloanisms - playing with a tuxedo on, jackpotting around
Deron Williams & Robert Whaley aka Torrey Ellis and Bobby Williams
AK- Too many. crying, back tattoo, free pass, etc.
Boozer - all the injuries, foot injury answering the front door... yea right.... And One after a miss
Ostertag getting slapped by Shaq
Malone - Me so Hungry ads
Commercials for various players. Some of them were even good. Gobert going around knocking cups out of peoples hands... pretty funny.
Bolerjack - knowing nothing about basketball but calling things. Banging down 3's. Skip passes, mispronounced names, and 50 others.
Raja Bell & Kobe - Kobe responding to a question about Bell - "I don't know this guy, I don't know this kid. He overreacts to stuff, I don't know him,"

That's just off the top of my head, I know I forgot a lot of good stuff. The non basketball list is pretty great too.
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Greg Foster throat slash should get an honorable mention.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Thanks!

And I agonized over Favors as well. Tough to replace anyone in the top 10 as it stands here with Favors, but a case could be made. It is interesting to hear what makes a top 10 Jazz player for everyone. Longevity and loyalty are definitely part of the equation, harkening back to our founder, Larry Miller (yeah I know he bought the team, but he really set what it meant to be a Jazz man and defined the culture).
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Favs is still in very good company when you look at the quality of players in his area on the list. I think it is about right.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Most overrated player on these lists is Ingles by far. I get you guys love him but ahead of Okur/Millsap/Bailey/Favors/Robinson/Malone is just a joke.
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I don't think rating him ahead of Okur or Millsap (one of my favorites, but his best career days were in Atlanta, not here) is awful. Neither Jeff Malone. Truck Robinson was really before my time, and looking at his career...he literally played 1.5 seasons with the team. Granted, one season was ****ing great, but still.

I would also have Thurl and Favors over Ingles, but the gap isn't that huge.
 
Coach Ellis said:
He played in 590 games and is the franchise leader in made 3’s.

Plus, everything that he brought to the community and locker room.

If anything, I think too many people were underrating him.
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To be fair, That’s definitely going to be a short lived stat. Don would definitely become the franchise leader this year (in fewer seasons), if he stayed on the roster. If not, some other person who shoots 12 threes a game will eventually pass him. JC in 2.5 seasons is already halfway to Joe’s total.
 
Coach Ellis said:
He played in 590 games and is the franchise leader in made 3’s.

Plus, everything that he brought to the community and locker room.

If anything, I think too many people were underrating him.
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590 games isn’t even top-10 all-time for Jazz players it’s 12th.

Favors played 644 total games with us.

He’s 4th in rebounds all-time, 7th in blocks, 12th in points (a mere 240 behind Deron), 11th in steals, 9th in PER and 7th in win shares.

Ingles is 5th in assists, 9th in steals and then doesn’t come close to the top-10 in any of the other stats.

Also, all that he did for the locker room? What does that mean? It sounds like he isn’t the locker room presence most people thought he was according to Andy Larsen. That was made up by fans for whatever reason.
 
Elizah Huge said:
590 games isn’t even top-10 all-time for Jazz players it’s 12th.

Favors played 644 total games with us.

He’s 4th in rebounds all-time, 7th in blocks, 12th in points (a mere 240 behind Deron), 11th in steals, 9th in PER and 7th in win shares.

Ingles is 5th in assists, 9th in steals and then doesn’t come close to the top-10 in any of the other stats.

Also, all that he did for the locker room? What does that mean? It sounds like he isn’t the locker room presence most people thought he was according to Andy Larsen. That was made up by fans for whatever reason.
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What did Andy Larsen say?

The best evidence for his locker room presence was the absolute culture meltdown we had at precisely the point he was traded this last season, that we saw both in the media and in the quality of play on the floor. Could have been coincidence, could have been brewing for a long time and just bubbled over, or could have been that Ingles did a good job of bringing the team together and when he left it just fell apart.
 
Elizah Huge said:
590 games isn’t even top-10 all-time for Jazz players it’s 12th.

Favors played 644 total games with us.

He’s 4th in rebounds all-time, 7th in blocks, 12th in points (a mere 240 behind Deron), 11th in steals, 9th in PER and 7th in win shares.

Ingles is 5th in assists, 9th in steals and then doesn’t come close to the top-10 in any of the other stats.

Also, all that he did for the locker room? What does that mean? It sounds like he isn’t the locker room presence most people thought he was according to Andy Larsen. That was made up by fans for whatever reason.
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Favors you absolutely have a good point on. I think he’s underrated as well because of the injuries and how his tenure in Utah ended.

But Jingles is underrated as well. Andy Larsen can think whatever he wants about the locker room last year and how much of an impact Jingles had on that. I will say, that I think the Jazz culture was so toxic by that point that no single player could’ve held it together.

This team used to love playing together, and it was evident that running it back last year was a mistake because that simply wasn’t the case anymore. Joe Ingles is a quintessential glue guy, who is in the Utah record books for a reason - for years, he was one of the most dangerous catch and shoot three point shooters in the NBA.
 
I’m curious what the case is for Hornacek over Boozer. Not being facetious I am genuinely curious.
 
Elizah Huge said:
I’m curious what the case is for Hornacek over Boozer. Not being facetious I am genuinely curious.
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I think it is more of Horny being the final piece in turning us from a perennial playoff team to a true finals contender. And he gave up a chance at a more central role to be the 3rd wheel to help us get there.

And for me, Boozer was always as much a frustration as a revelation. He scored a lot and got a lot of rebounds, but he also pioneered the matador defense, which was so irritating to watch. I remember a game thread or something once when someone said that on offense he moves like he has wings on his feet and on defense he moves like his feet are planted in cement, or something like that. And frankly the whole "I getting paid regardless" **** was grating, no doubt that had an influence on the voting somewhat. I think part of the good thing about the top 10 is they were all instrumental in us winning, either the best record in the league for the first time ever, or getting to the finals, or keeping the team afloat during rough stretches. It kind of fades after that, imo.
 
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