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Drafting random blank slates at #5 is very common, lol #5 picks over time 2025: Ace Bailey 2024: Ron Holland 2023: Ausar Thompson 2022: Jaden Ivey 2021: Jalen Suggs* 2020: Isaac Okoro 2019: Darius Garland (only played 6 games in college) 2018: Trae Young* 2017: De'Aaron Fox* 2016: Kris Dunn...

This is because we intentionally surrender above the break threes.

We have bad defensive personnel, but come on, lol. This is the worst scheme in the league and essentially no one gets better defensively under Hardy.

Will Hardy is on pace to finish 30th in defense three years in a row and like..... I think there is a common denominator there.

Brandon Miller got a shoulder injury that the Hornets refuse to discuss or give guidance about while Miller keeps going to different doctors for second and third opinions.

This feels extremely confident for a guy who shot 31% from three over five years in college. His G-League numbers are OK, but no one defends at all in the G-League. He's should play to see if he's an NBA player, but he's most likely going to be an offensive 0 guy who should be an 11th man.

Brandon Miller is probably out for the season for the Hornets, but the Jazz have essentially nothing at center if Kessler is injured so the the Hornets should be favored.

We have like 4000 PFs on the roster and almost no playmakers, it's kind of a roster problem more than anything.

No, no one plays defense in the G-League and Ace and Hendricks need to learn how to defend. The issue might just be that Lauri can't play with Ace or Hendricks and Ace and Hendricks can't play with each other (they're all PFs with no ball handling) so they may just have to wait on the bench...

I mean, sure, he's a total zero on offense, but he needs to learn how to defend and dribble to be a viable NBA player. The dribbling probably won't come from NBA reps, but the defense probably does need NBA minutes! The Jazz need to play him even though he sucks to help him learn how to defend...

First of all, Demin has been horrific. Demin is so bad at ball handling that he has not attempted a shot from inside the arc this year. Second of all, Ace was considered very raw, yes. He's a PF who is 30 pounds underweight, he's a very young 19, he was not good at Rutgers, he doesn't know how...

One thing you could argue is that we're trying to boost Lauri's trade value currently and Ace and Hendricks are such horrendous fits with Lauri (all three being PFs who can't dribble) that we'll start playing Ace and Hendricks more after Lauri gets traded.

It's hard to say "player development doesn't work like that" with Hendricks in particular simply because he's bad mostly because he doesn't know how to play perimeter defense and he's played 150 minutes of perimeter defense in his entire life that wasn't on the hard tanking 2022-2023 Jazz post...

Hendricks getting so few minutes just seems kind of stupid. 1. Yes, he's extremely bad currently 2. The main reason he's bad is because he can't defend but he's gotten basically zero important defensive reps in his entire life so that probably contributes.

Hendricks and Ace Bailey are like the only young players on the roster with two way potential and both guys are at least three years away so we kind of have to trade Lauri regardless before the deadline as this timeline and roster makes no sense.

Yes, which is why it's both semi understandable and not super pleasant!

Taylor Hendricks was drafted 2.5 years ago and is still three years away at best and that's semi-understandable but not super pleasant.

Yeah, he's really good at making jumpshots and scoring inside. He has a ton of defensive upside (and scoring upside if he improves his handle), but it's going to take time. He's a young 19.

He's extremely raw and coming off the flu and some minor injuries, not too surprising he's starting slow.

I am extremely doubtful Svi continues to put together many more good games and he and Brice are probably at the same real level of competency. I mean, yes, the Jazz could nibble around the edges and intentionally sabotage the team by playing guys out of position etc, but I don't know what the...