2023 NBA Draft Megathread

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I formed a solid opinion on Hendricks before most of the board even knew who he was.

 

[framer]

Bitching about a draft where we possibly ended up with a top 3-5 player when our highest pick was 9th feels silly.

Sir, this is Jazzfanz.

 

[Elizah Huge]

The board favorite is Lauri and I dont see myself hating on Lauri? Do you? I said he would average a career high this year.

You are acting like I post like the Upside dude.

Like I said when you aren’t doing your bit I love your posts.

 

[KqWIN]

I don't think a trade up was in the cards. I go back to the Jazz straight up saying on draft night that they would have taken any of the eight players picked ahead of them over Hendricks I have NEVER seen a team say that about a draft pick in any sport.

I think it was common knowledge around the league that there was a drop off after #8 and we happened to have the ninth pick, it's the most Jazz thing ever, so shouldn't be surprising. What I'd be more curious to know is where other teams had Hendricks, did everyone see him as a top guy in that next tier? Or were opinions much more varied? Obviously we liked George more than others, so great job there (I have to remind myself that we got him at #16 in my head it's always #10).

All that said, only Cason so far is really do anything to make us lament taking Hendricks at #9, so I'm okay with it for now. If George was taken between 10 and 16 and looked how he looks with us we'd be much more salty than we are now, all in all things worked out okay.

If Keyonte continues his trajectory, and Hendricks becomes even a rotation level NBA player, it's a successful draft. Maybe even a great one.

It was definitely odd when they came out and said that. Like you said, I've never seen that said in any sport either.

I think it was actually considered a 9 man draft, but if you wanted to call it a 8 man draft Hendricks was absolutely included in the 8. The 9th guy would have been Cam. Bilal was a late riser. Hendricks was getting a lot of buzz at 5 and 6 IIRC.

 

[framer]

I always saw Hendricks as a raw athlete sort of pick. He has tools and he can shoot, which is a plus, but he was going to need time to develop his NBA role. Moreover, because it didn't look like his coaching in College did him any favors. He's an NBA 3 and he has never played that position. His ideal looks a lot like Chicago and Cleveland thought Lauri was, but with more defense. That is a valuable player.

I wanted Walker because I thought he was ready to go from day 1. I was pretty wrong on that.

Also wanted no art of JHS, and if we are going to way early crap on players and the people pimping them. . .

 

[Elizah Huge]

It was definitely odd when they came out and said that. Like you said, I've never seen that said in any sport either.

I think it was actually considered a 9 man draft, but if you wanted to call it a 8 man draft Hendricks was absolutely included in the 8. The 9th guy would have been Cam. Bilal was a late riser. Hendricks was getting a lot of buzz at 5 and 6 IIRC.

This is correct.

 

[One Brow]

I formed a solid opinion on Hendricks before most of the board even knew who he was.

Who would you have picked instead, assuming you could not trade up?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Who would you have picked instead, assuming you could not trade up?

JHS for sure. Dick would have been my next pick.

 

[One Brow]

JHS for sure. Dick would have been my next pick.

Why don't you ever talk about how they are doing, instead of picks taken before Hendricks?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Why don't you ever talk about how they are doing, instead of picks taken before Hendricks?

JHS has been injured since early October. Not much to talk about. Would be cool to see him in the G_league.

Dick just started for the Raptors. His stats are booty cheeks to the maximum, but he's at least getting on the court and looks the part.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

JHS has been injured since early October. Not much to talk about. Would be cool to see him in the G_league.

Dick just started for the Raptors. His stats are booty cheeks to the maximum, but he's at least getting on the court and looks the part.

I mean JHS was *** in preseason but it was real quiet around here. Even if we took him and he was healthy he'd be in the G League.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

It was definitely odd when they came out and said that. Like you said, I've never seen that said in any sport either.

I think it was actually considered a 9 man draft, but if you wanted to call it a 8 man draft Hendricks was absolutely included in the 8. The 9th guy would have been Cam. Bilal was a late riser. Hendricks was getting a lot of buzz at 5 and 6 IIRC.

This is correct.

How do we know this is correct? It is certainly not corroborated by any actual evidence. The top 8 teams all picked in the top 8, no one wanted to move. If any team had wanted him at 5 or 6 then the Jazz should have been just fine saying they were one of those teams after the fact, but they did the exact opposite.

I'm not saying I'm right or you're wrong, but I do think my position is a bit stronger than then one without a single whiff of evidence.