Keyonte is frustrating as hell. Any time I start to really like him he seems to disappear for a stretch and makes me second guess what I'm thinking. I love his potential as a 3 level scorer though in the nba with more spacing. He has a nice compact jumper with deep nba range and the shiftiness to create space.
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Balance is old school. New school is positionless bball. A bunch of tall athletic dudes who can switch every poition.
Drafting positions ended for me in 2013. Passing on giannis to trade up for a short guard trey burke just sucked. Never pass up good players to take a position you think you need. Draft the best player available. Even this year with 3 big 7 footers already on the team. If the best player is 7 feet tall you draft them. Me im looking for height and athletisism.
Not recently. A bunch of the projected lottery picks have been passing on the combine of late.
Unfortunately the jazz front office had Trey as their best player available. Their analytics guys had him rated as the best pg prospect since Chris Paul.
I mostly agree with you, except you do need at least one person to help set up the bigs who usually cannot create their own shot. Most of the time that is a guard unless you are named Lebron James.
Leif is a Jazz fan, btw.
My top 3 prospects are Victor, Scoot and Amen. I would trade up for Jarace, Cam or possibly Ausar. Otherwise, I'd take my favorite guard at ~10 and GG at ~15. That said, I'm not sure anyone's going to let the Jazz trade up.
It been a long time, but i thought i read or heard that they really liked giannis and had him rated very high, but corbin insisted he needed a guard and they did rank trey very high as well. I always had the impression giannis was their highestest rated prospect, but they needed a guard. Ever since that draft ive alway thought best player over need every time.
My recollection is that the Jazz liked Kelly Olynyk in their draft range, but they heard through the grapevine that Boston was planning to trade up with Dallas to take him. Maybe they'd have taken Giannis if they stayed at $14 and Olynyk was off the board. I think the Jazz would have traded up with Minnesota regardless.
Eddie Zero
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it works in favor of stubborn stat heads who micro manage scouting departments more than it works to their disadvantage -so yeah you really need to have a solid scouting department who can convince owners to take risks like Giannis who had all the tools and the generational potential if he figured it all out. I am pretty certain DA has this under control. we aint picking for need unless that prospect is the bpa
The thing that worries me about Black is that his misses from 3 look pretty bad.
I want to like him so bad because I love his size at the point guard position, but every time I watch him I come away underwhelmed. His shooting is a concern.
My information wasn't public knowledge as far as I know. I received it from someone that was in upper management with the LHM group at the time.