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All-Time Jazz Draft Championship: Thee jazz fan vs. White Chocolate

Who would win in a 7 game series?

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Malone is one of the greatest players of all time, and he was a winner. Maravich was a good player, more style than substance, and ultimately didnt lead his teams anywhere. Star power makes a huge difference, just look at how LeBron almost beat an all time great team with a bunch of scrubs.
 
Watching Tag play, he wasn't a great player but he always elevated the defense, I remember always being relieved when he'd come back in because I just knew we'd get more stops. Think he's underrated as a jazz player. Sometimes he'd sleep walk through stretches of the regular season but he was pretty money in the playoffs. Was always more focused the bigger the game was


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Also not many centers played Shaq better then Tag on defense.

The Jazz under John and Karl were always a very good defensive team in large part due to first Eaton then Tag then Gobert last year. Enough can't be said about a center that elevates team defense.


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Thee jazz fan said:
Also not many centers played Shaq better then Tag on defense.

The Jazz under John and Karl were always a very good defensive team in large part due to first Eaton then Tag then Gobert last year. Enough can't be said about a center that elevates team defense.


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Just look at the Jazz second half record when Gobert got more mins and Kanter was shipped out.


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Good match WC. I got lucky to get the first pick, and lucky Jeff Malone fell to me, and probably Green too. Nice draft for u


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It would be fun to do an all time draft of another team to compare with the depth of the Jazz.


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It would be fun to do an all time draft of another team to compare with the depth of the Jazz.
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Lakers would have enough star power to make 8 competitive teams. I was joking with WC that we should do a combined Jazz/Lakers draft. Our favorite team and our hated rival. At that point, some of the later picks still have nearly as much value as the 1st one. Stockton, Malone, Magic, Kareem, Shaq, Kobe, Worthy, Gobert, Hayward, Dantley, Maravich, etc. . . I'm sure that I'm missing somebody.
 
Lol. Glad this wasn't around for WC to use against me during the vote.

Former jazz center Greg Foster was doing some kind of fan Q&A, and I found this little nugget.

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Got news for ya Mr. Foster. Tag was better and had more to do with the Jazz being as good as they were the u. You sound like a bitter old man. Lol


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Wow!! He really doesn't like tag one bit.

It’s easy: Greg Ostertag. Having to share a name with this doofus is enough to make my blood boil.

To me, Greg Ostertag is the Utah Jazz version of Baby Huey. A schlubby halfwit who lives in his parents’ basement, can’t hold a job and puts his name on the orange juice he didn’t pay for. It’s a damn good thing for him he ended up being 7-foot-2.

He was supposed to be the final piece to the championship puzzle. A hulking big man who could protect the rim, snag rebounds by the dozen and score down on the low block. Instead, he was a lump of flesh that never came close to reaching his potential. Sure, he had some decent games against Hakeem Olajuwon and swatted his fair share of shots, but he was still a colossal disappointment.

What irritates me most is that with some genuine hard work and effort, Ostertag could’ve been super solid. But he wasn’t willing to put in that work. This is compounded when you think about him sharing a frontcourt with Karl Malone—one of the hardest working players in league history. A man whose workouts were as Herculean as they were legendary.

Ostertag put himself and his laziness before the team and in doing so brought the organization down a few pegs. I’m not going to pin all the blame for the Jazz’s misfortunes on him, but a large chunk of the blame has to be placed on his flabby shoulders.

Few things make me more disgusted than when someone has every resource to improve and grow, but refuses to do so. I truly believe that, had Ostertag applied himself, to reach even a Bill Laimbeer level of play, the statues in front of the ESA would have championship rings adorning their fingers.
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