2023 NBA Draft Megathread

[Handlogten's Heros]

You literally said you have a problem with his mom because she is a woman and that it would be different if it were a man. You don't know **** about what GG's mom or his family dynamic is like. And for the record, family dynamics are very dependent on cultural and socioeconomics conditions. So I do not give a **** about your first hand witness unless it's a first hand witness of interacting with GG and his family. There are so many people that would laugh in your face at this idea that mothers are not tough and their children walk over them. It is me, I am laughing in your face at this assertion.

And yes, you verbatim said it would be different if it was a man and even in this post keep trying to prove your point that woman cannot do what a man can.

Boy if I said that I didn’t mean it. It’s very much a biological connection to moms that i was trying to point out. Not a man woman thing at all.

If it would not be any different if it was a man, why do you feel the need to keep establishing this difference? Bull ****. If there's no difference, there is no need to keep harping on these supposed differences between men and women.

Believe what you want man… I’m out. Apparently I’m a sexist racist if I imply mothers have unique biological connections to offspring.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Racialism. I think that some white parents are also disciplinarians and some minority parents are kind, easy going parents.

I’m white, and my parents whipped my ***. My mom would come at me with her trusty wooden spoon.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I’m biased by my own experience… for sure. So are you… but if you think there isn’t a stronger biological connection between mothers and offspring I think that’s just pretty much science. Maybe in my experience that manifests more as coddling and in different cultures it manifests differently. Either way… I am very cool with his parents being super involved in all aspects of his life but to represent as an agent is not something I like.

I mean, I agree that parent/agent thing is probably a bad idea, but it's more based on the lack of experience.

If my mom was Mark Bartlestein I'd want her to rep me.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I’m white, and my parents whipped my ***. My mom would come at me with her trusty wooden spoon.

You're also like 80 years old.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I mean, I agree that parent/agent thing is probably a bad idea, but it's more based on the lack of experience.

If my mom was Mark Bartlestein I'd want her to rep me.

It’s experience and bias. As a father it’s hard for me to tell kids what the need to hear sometimes. It’s hard to detach. When your kids hurt you hurt… and sometimes it leads to not seeing beyond one particular moment and may lead to short term bandaids to alleviate the pain. Maybe it becomes a benefit… I will not question it here though… lol.

 

[KqWIN]

Boy if I said that I didn’t mean it. It’s very much a biological connection to moms that i was trying to point out. Not a man woman thing at all.

Believe what you want man… I’m out. Apparently I’m a sexist racist if I imply mothers have unique biological connections to offspring.

If it's not a man/woman thing I would suggest not saying it's a man/woman thing verbatim and then going on to why it should be a man/woman thing over and over and over in following posts.

Agent = Parent, probably not good. But it is not bad or made worse because it's a woman and not a man.

 

[Jaymz]

I’m white, and my parents whipped my ***. My mom would come at me with her trusty wooden spoon.

I had yardsticks broken over my leg just for walking home on Sunday from church.

I’m 35, glow-in-the-dark caucasian.

So… I’m with you here
We all get it the same no matter color.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

This great thread is becoming the pet peeve thread for me today. One of my great pet peeves is when people try to incorporate race or religion into everything. It is why I rarely ever go into the general discussion threads anymore. Sorry to inform, but they do not have to be a factor in every aspect of life despite what TV or social media might tell the world. And since I will probably be told "That is because you are *fill in the blank", no I do not fit most stereotypes of people living in Utah or of Utah Jazz fans either.

Now, back to the Jazz and the draft please.

Sorry for derailing things... I'm done with the convo lol.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Barlowe said the player to watch in the G-League Elite Combine is Jazian Gortman of OTE.

Jazian Gortman - Basketball Recruiting - Player Profiles - ESPN

Learn about Jazian Gortman and other recruit player profiles on RecruitingNation.com.

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per ESPN they gave him a "94" rating which is the same as Derrick Lively, Dillon Mitchell, Dariq Whitehead, and Nick Smith JR, so a top 5 HS prospect from this draft class.


View: https://twitter.com/OvertimeElite/status/1624578455697227778


Not sure what his stats are (the OTE site where they have the stats is buggy on my desktop for whatever reason) but he's a hyper quick guard with a shot that looks pretty smooth.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

View: https://twitter.com/OvertimeElite/status/1624578455697227778


Jaylen Martin is the other OTE player at the G_League Elite Camp. Was teammates with Gort on the YNG Dreamerz (team that lost in the finals to the Twins, close games). He wasnt as highly ranked out of HS as some of the more notable OTE players, so it's impressive he got an invite.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

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For anyone interested here is Game 2 of the OTE Finals which features 4 draft prospects (the twins, Gort, and Martin) and several future draft prospects in the coming years. The OTE Finals games where stylistically much better basketball vs regular season OTE. Much less of the transition stuff due to the unique rules.

 

[Elizah Huge]

**** gets super weird in here sometimes.