Hey Everyone... Lets Chill on Writing Hendricks Off... TIA

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I dont watch all these guys play but from what I can tell basically you have:

1 guy who has been really good: Wemby (even he was only 3-10 last night)

A few guys have been good and fans are probably happy with: Cam, Amen, Bilal

One guy has been really mid/average: Brandon Miller

Then the rest, guys like Black, wallace, walker, bufkin, JHS, scoot, Howard, dick, hawkins, ausar etc, have been below expectations or just plain bad. A few flashes from a few of these guys but mostly garbage.

Also, most of these guys didn't have an injury in the off season and had more time to practice with their teammates, got to play in summer league, and dont have a roster stacked with dudes who are bonafide playing their same position.

Strawther has been really good.

 

[fishonjazz]

And yeah, rookies dont put up great stats in the pre-season or usually to start the year.

Hendricks is on a different level of not ready than every other lottery pick I've seen.

Hendricks also didn't play in summer league, missed time practicing with his team due to injury and plays on a team stacked with proven nba ballers at his position.

 

[fishonjazz]

Strawther has been really good.

Well I participated in the 2023 draft megathread and didn't hear much at all about the dude. In my post I specifically was talking about guys who we all hyped up a lot and guys drafted before or around Hendricks. Strawther was drafted 29th and wasn't talked about all that much. (im sure this is the part when you will say that you talked about him all the time in an attempt to make yourself look like some kind of genius)

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Hendricks also didn't play in summer league, missed time practicing with his team due to injury and plays on a team stacked with proven nba ballers at his position.

SL isnt game changing. Walker missed SL and he didnt look like a fish out of water.

He didnt have knee surgery like Brice.

 

[fishonjazz]

SL isnt game changing. Walker missed SL and he didnt look like a fish out of water.

He didnt have knee surgery like Brice.

Hendricks didn't play in SL, and missed practice time and has a roster stacked at his position. hater gonna hate.

btw if you loved hendricks in the draft process these are the exact things you would be bringing up to defend his poor play.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Well I participated in the 2023 draft megathread and didn't hear much at all about the dude. In my post I specifically was talking about guys who we all hyped up a lot and guys drafted before or around Hendricks. Strawther was drafted 29th.

There was no one hyped over Hendricks we could have drafted. He was the consensus 9th or 10th guy among nearly every draft person.

I was basically the only person who didnt have Hendricks in their top 10.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Strawther is.

In general, the older rookies have been much better than the 19 year olds. I think that's probably to be expected though.

 

[fishonjazz]

There was no one hyped over Hendricks we could have drafted. He was the consensus 9th or 10th guy among nearly every draft person.

I was basically the only person who didnt have Hendricks in their top 10.

But there were players hyped over hendricks that guys wanted who haven't been any good that were drafted ahead of him.

My point is that a lot of rookies are not playing well.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

But there were players hyped over hendricks that guys wanted who haven't been any good.

You just cherry picked players who had some bad games in the SL.

They have all been better than Hendrikcs because Hendricks doesnt even look comfortable or like he belongs on the court.

 

[fishonjazz]

SL isnt game changing. Walker missed SL and he didnt look like a fish out of water.

He didnt have knee surgery like Brice.

I wasn't trying to say that those things are super duper important.

Do you think its better for a player to be hurt or healthy?
Do you think its better for a player to get more practice time with their team or less?
Do you think its better to play in SL or not?

Thats all I was saying.

Its so weird how you just want to show just how much you hate the jazz rookie lottery pick. It seems very important to you that your hate is out there as much as possible. You are a strange duck.

 

[fishonjazz]

You just cherry picked players who had some bad games in the SL.

They have all been better than Hendrikcs because Hendricks doesnt even look comfortable or like he belongs on the court.

lol. I didn't use a single summer league game for anything.

And I didn't cherry pick. I just went back like 5 days or something. It took a while to do that, I wasn't going to do the whole pre season. That would take too long. (weird cherry picking comment with all the tht cherry picking happening lately lol)

 

[fishonjazz]

I dont watch all these guys play but from what I can tell basically you have:

1 guy who has been really good: Wemby (even he was only 3-10 last night)

A few guys have been good and fans are probably happy with: Cam, Amen, Bilal

One guy has been really mid/average: Brandon Miller

Then the rest, guys like Black, wallace, walker, bufkin, JHS, scoot, Howard, dick, hawkins, ausar etc, have been below expectations or just plain bad. A few flashes from a few of these guys but mostly garbage.

Also, most of these guys didn't have an injury in the off season and had more time to practice with their teammates, got to play in summer league, and dont have a roster stacked with dudes who are bonafide playing their same position.

This.
This was really the point. Anyone disagree with how I ranked these guys that I listed? Has any of Black, wallace, walker, bufkin, scoot, howard, dick, hawkins, ausar, jhs been really good or exceeded expections? Have none of those guys been trash?