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Draft Game - Jazz land 3rd pick, Wigs&Jarbi both gone. Who do you take?

who do you take?

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Embiid.

Drafting him easily makes us the the biggest if not the best front court in the entire league. He and Favors could develop into something like what the Spurs had in the late 90s early 2000s or what the Rockets had waaayyyy back when with Sampson and Dream (prior to Sampson's injuries).

With Embiid and a solid 2 picks to fill in backup PG and a solid wing, this team would be into the playoffs and able to compete with anyone. And if there's one thing Indy has taught us, size can be a great neutralizer. No one can stop Durant or James. However, size can help contain them and beat the hell out of their team's soft under bellies. If Miami or OKC go down it will be because their bigs are destroyed.

Whether or not Embiid is a better pickup than King James II remains to be seen. To me, Parker provides so much. Ball handling, scoring, leadership, etc...
 
I have this weird feeling Exum is going to be really, really good even though I'm never blown away when I watch him.
 
I think you could make a case for all 3 of them...
One thing I read about Denver the other day was about the high altitude home advantage and you have to have players who have a lot of endurance. First note is that what I've seen from Kanter he doesn't fit that pattern too well. I'd really like to keep Favors as he's apparently happy in Utah and a good personality.
So I'll create scenarios how I'd like to form the roster with either of the 3 guys available at 3...I don't have a real preference at this point of the season I think all 3 good be very valuable, but Embiid isn't such a sure thing and I don't like the untapped potential price tag.
1a) Jazz have #3 and select Julius Randle. As they have the 2nd worst record they also have the 32nd pick and select Nik Stauskas. The Golden State pick ends up being #14 and with it the Jazz select James Young.
They also trade Gordon Hayward in a sign and trade for Goran Dragic and the 18th pick in the 2014 draft with which they selct Jahii Carson.
Furthermore there's another trade around Trey Burke to Toronto for Terrence Ross and a future first rounder.
I really wanna find someone who might be looking for Enes Kanter and/or Burks and might have something valuable to return at the 3/4 position, but I can't think of anyone.

So this would leave a depth chart of:
Dragic/Carson
Young/Stauskas
Ross/Burks
Randle/Evans
Favors/Gobert

Maybe I'd try to move Kanter+Ross+Burks in some way that would put us into a position to get Stanley Johnson in 2015 as SF of the future. Otherwise we'd just throw money at either Kawhi Leonard or Jimmy Butler.

With the other options I'm still puzzling a little what I'd like to see but I'm done lineup tinkering for now!
 
BTP said:
I think you could make a case for all 3 of them...
One thing I read about Denver the other day was about the high altitude home advantage and you have to have players who have a lot of endurance. First note is that what I've seen from Kanter he doesn't fit that pattern too well. I'd really like to keep Favors as he's apparently happy in Utah and a good personality.
So I'll create scenarios how I'd like to form the roster with either of the 3 guys available at 3...I don't have a real preference at this point of the season I think all 3 good be very valuable, but Embiid isn't such a sure thing and I don't like the untapped potential price tag.
1a) Jazz have #3 and select Julius Randle. As they have the 2nd worst record they also have the 32nd pick and select Nik Stauskas. The Golden State pick ends up being #14 and with it the Jazz select James Young.
They also trade Gordon Hayward in a sign and trade for Goran Dragic and the 18th pick in the 2014 draft with which they selct Jahii Carson.
Furthermore there's another trade around Trey Burke to Toronto for Terrence Ross and a future first rounder.
I really wanna find someone who might be looking for Enes Kanter and/or Burks and might have something valuable to return at the 3/4 position, but I can't think of anyone.

So this would leave a depth chart of:
Dragic/Carson
Young/Stauskas
Ross/Burks
Randle/Evans
Favors/Gobert

Maybe I'd try to move Kanter+Ross+Burks in some way that would put us into a position to get Stanley Johnson in 2015 as SF of the future. Otherwise we'd just throw money at either Kawhi Leonard or Jimmy Butler.

With the other options I'm still puzzling a little what I'd like to see but I'm done lineup tinkering for now!
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Omg, that is horrible.
 
Surprised that Embiid is in the lead. Is this just because he has been compared to Hakeem recently? I dont think he is on that level.

I think people are sleeping on Smart.
 
I'm banned from the 2014 prospects thread so I don't know who the best power forward is, but Favors-RandleMalone is legit ten year foundation.
 
Right now Embid, but Exum is probably a close second. Wouldn't be upset with Smart or Randle either.
 
Hack said:
Omg, that is horrible.
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Care to explain? I think that team would be an immediate 3rd place in the West in 2016. And if you can replace Ross with Stanley Johnson somehow it's even better.
This team provides you with strong inside defense, help defense, wing defense, transition buckets, stretches the floor, has a back to the basket threat. It's built to abuse high altitude home advantage to its maximum. It's the whole package.
 
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Embiid without even thinking about it. Heck if the Jazz didn't have Favors, Kanter and Gobert, I might take him over everyone. I still think the Jazz should look into trading Kanter/Burks or Kanter + a 2016 pick for another top pick. Yea I doubt people would do it but it would be awesome.

I am just hoping against all hope that GS pick provides a miracle. A draft of Wiggins/Parker + Embiid might go down in NBA history as the greatest single draft ever. Ok I am going myself worked up... a man can dream... can't he?
 
When did Embiid start playing basketball? His ceiling might be very high but damn that floor can be painfully low. I'd probably lean towards going with more of a sure thing.
 
The one-and-done culture of the NBA draft makes evaluations like this so hard to gauge. Embiid, Randle, Smart and Exum look to be the best players after Wiggins/Parker. I'd say that Embiid is probably the best pick, just because it's so hard to find dominating big men. Randle/Favors would be a smaller front-court pairing, but they'd sure be an exciting one IMO. If they decide to keep Hayward (which I think they will) I think that they go with one of the two big guys over Smart/Exum.

I'd personally be happy with any of the top six players and then build a roster around them and their specific talents.
 
BTP said:
Care to explain? I think that team would be an immediate 3rd place in the West in 2016. And if you can replace Ross with Stanley Johnson somehow it's even better.
This team provides you with strong inside defense, help defense, wing defense, transition buckets, stretches the floor, has a back to the basket threat. It's built to abuse high altitude home advantage to its maximum. It's the whole package.
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Because you are assuming too much and making way too many changes. Its way too much risk. And most importantly, trading Trey Burke for Ross is a terrible trade. And I like Ross. But Burke is more valuable.
 
Hack said:
Surprised that Embiid is in the lead. Is this just because he has been compared to Hakeem recently? I dont think he is on that level.

I think people are sleeping on Smart.
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His performance last night might have something to do with it.

This move made me very encouraged he'll be more than just a force on the defensive end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Irvvb7Y4-w
 
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