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Locke going all-in on Kobe Bufkin. What are your thoughts?

Ferguson_Mellochill said:
It's weird that Locke would be this loud and obvious in his support for Bufkin. I'd wonder if it's a smokescreen, but I too am pretty confident in Bufkin being a solid guard in the league. Several years back, Locke was very overt in his support for Trey Lyles, then it turned out that the Jazz drafted Lyles.

Maybe the idea is to throw people off the trail of Bilal Coulibaly?
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Not sure how well Locke is able to read the tea leaves under DA (not saying he can or can’t, just saying I legitimately don’t know) but it’s definitely a different era than the DL regime. Unclear what that all means for Locke’s insights.
 
infection said:
Not sure how well Locke is able to read the tea leaves under DA (not saying he can or can’t, just saying I legitimately don’t know) but it’s definitely a different era than the DL regime. Unclear what that all means for Locke’s insights.
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Locke can't be completely disconnected from the organization. He works for them. He also can't telegraph who the Jazz are planning to pick without some good reason. If he's announcing to the world that the Jazz are comfortable drafting Bufkin at #9, then maybe this is a message to teams that are trying to get the Jazz to trade up with them to soften the market.

There might also be a game of chicken going on with OKC. The Jazz reportedly like Bilal, and so a rumor circulates that OKC may have promised him at 12. (If the Jazz want Bilal, they'll have to take him at #9, so they can't trade 9 in a deal to move up.) Bufkin appears in a photo working out with SGA, and the Jazz go loud about being interested in Bufkin. When in reality, both the Jazz and OKC are trying to move up to draft Jarace Walker.
 
Yall just remember the guys he likes that we drafted. He likes more than one player in each draft.
 
The Jazz may need to move 16 and 28 to move up. Any pick better than 14 gets them a player with some skill.

Players like Dick and Bufkin seem just out of range with where they fall, but getting either after our first pick would be terrific.
 
There was a time where Locke's "guy" was drafted every year by the Jazz. Whether that was conscious/sub-conscious or intentional/unintentional I don't think that is a thing anymore with a whole new regime.

It's hard to not like Bufkin. At #9? I have him a tier down but it's not the most offensive pick. He is younger than a lot of the Freshman this year. I would feel more strongly about taking a wing at #9 (Bilal, Hendricks, Dick) and taking whatever guard falls (George, Bufkin, Wallace).
 
Certainly think there will be better guys available at #9 but I do like him. His strengths speak for themselves and he strikes me as a "high floor" guy.

My hope is a top wing/forward falls to us at 9, and if we moved up from 16 to 12-13 for KB, I'd be fine with that.
 
PresidioTrojan said:
Certainly think there will be better guys available at #9 but I do like him. His strengths speak for themselves and he strikes me as a "high floor" guy.

My hope is a top wing/forward falls to us at 9, and if we moved up from 16 to 12-13 for KB, I'd be fine with that.
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From reading all the draft related threads I think the vast majority of jazzfanz feels this way. I think most of us want a top wing/forward with the first pick and then a pg with the second pick. I know that is how I feel. I would love the first pick to be Cam, Hendricks, Walker, Bilal (in that order). Second pick Im hoping for Wallace, black (dont freak out eliza maybe we trade up), bufkin, george etc.
 
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