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Following Potential 2025 Draftees

Saint Cy of JFC said:
Vecenie has us taking Fears at 5 and Jase at 21. I just cant see that being reality and seems like a really stupid mock. Just no way in hell the Jazz draft a small guard after taking Fears.
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I just cannot do it lol. I like Jase at 21 but my hell... what are we doing.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Vecenie has us taking Fears at 5 and Jase at 21. I just cant see that being reality and seems like a really stupid mock. Just no way in hell the Jazz draft a small guard after taking Fears.
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I'm not seeing this on the Athletic. Is it in his draft guide?
 
Tre and Fears give me the same amount of no defense cringe. Tre gives me Key vibes where he truly has never given AF about defense in his life and that's ingrained in him. Fears gives me Sexton vibes where he might give an angry face and make a hustle play but overall still sucks badly on defense.

Go BPA at #5, of course, but at some point you do have to question if the FO/coaching staff even cares about defense. How many years in a row are we going to be 30th in defense? If we go double zero defense I will be upset.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Vecenie has us taking Fears at 5 and Jase at 21. I just cant see that being reality and seems like a really stupid mock. Just no way in hell the Jazz draft a small guard after taking Fears.
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He and Jeremy Woo both have us taking Fears with both Tre and Ace still on the board.
 
Jingled said:
He and Jeremy Woo both have us taking Fears with both Tre and Ace still on the board.
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I want to believe the the Jazz have Tre at #3 or #4 on their board. I have to think we're blowing smoke here. Maybe the Jazz are down on Ace and would take Fears if Tre is gone, but Fears over Tre would be a bit shocking to me. The lack of shooting, finishing and defense with Fears raises real questions.

Meanwhile, Washington and Brooklyn, if not also New Orleans, have allegedly been trying to trade up to get Fears. It makes sense that the Jazz would posture as though these teams need to trade with us or get up to 4.
 
Kon is the favorite at #4....I think he makes the most sense for them. OTOH, they seemingly drafted Salaun for everything besides his ability to play basketball. Kon's biggest strength is how he plays basketball, so I wonder if that's who they will actually go with.
 
KqWIN said:
Numbers w/o Flagg are fairly promising as well. I'm 100% sure he could have done more with more opportunity. Guess it just depends on how far you're willing to go with hypothetical Kon with more opportunity. The other side of this is that he also benefitted from being on a such a strong team.
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This.

As I've said before – being on that Duke team, with more athletic scoring threats everywhere and the ball moving in what was essentially an equal opportunity offense, turned Kon from a Top 25 prospect to a Top 10 one.

He'll get a rude awakening in the NBA.
 
My last board before the draft. Again disclaimer - I have seen very limited film(more like highlights of a lot of the players outside the lottery range) so take with a pinch of salt.

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1. Flagg
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2. Dylan Harper
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3. Jeremiah Fears
4. Tre Johnson
5. Ace Bailey
6. VJ Edgecombe
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7. Cedric Coward
8. Kon Knueppel
9. Kasparas Jakucionas
10. Walter Clayton Jr
11. Ben Saraf
12. CMB
13. Joan Berigner
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14. Carter Bryant
15. Will Riley
16 Hugo Gonzalez
17 Jase Richardson
18. Thomas Sorber
19. Hansen Yang
20. Khaman Maluach
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21. Derik Queen
22. Noah Essengue
23. Nolan Traore
24. Egor Demin
25. Drake Powell
26. Adou Thiero
 
For whatever it's worth... if #LockeWatch is still a thing, Locke was pushing hard for not passing on Ace if he's there to take for the Jazz.
 
KqWIN said:
Kon is the favorite at #4....I think he makes the most sense for them. OTOH, they seemingly drafted Salaun for everything besides his ability to play basketball. Kon's biggest strength is how he plays basketball, so I wonder if that's who they will actually go with.
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I do think they are both very serious hard workers though... so wouldn't be completely different in demeanor from what I hear about both.
 
Basketball Novice said:
There is no way that guy has insider info, right?
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There used to be time when we were able to guess who the Jazz are targetting purely based on the way Locke was covering them and who he was pushing before the draft. Since DL has been gone, this has not been the case... but... who knows? Maybe he got his sources talking again?
 
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