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Can we cross Marcus Smart off the list?

Will Smart be drafted?

  • Yep, still in play

    Votes: 10 35.7%

  • No chance now

    Votes: 13 46.4%

  • It's a push

    Votes: 5 17.9%
  • Total voters
    28
  • Poll closed .
Jazz4ever

Jazz4ever

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With Snyder being a pick and roll specialist it seems unlikely the Jazz would draft Smart at this point. I don't know if its a fact but also read the Jazz "couldn't fit him in" for a workout either. Chad Ford, as fictional as he is, also reported the Jazz weren't ever really interested in Smart at any point. Is it now a three horse race of Vonleh, Gordon, and Randle (the dark horse)?
 
never been a smart guy.
not compatible with our current line up.
don't believe in his point guard ability.

give me gordon.
 
Fabtrey said:
never been a smart guy.
not compatible with our current line up.
don't believe in his point guard ability.

give me gordon.
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I hope you mean that you have never been a fan of Smart.


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Just because he studies the Pick and Roll, that doesn't mean he's a specialist. I love how everyone takes a small piece of something he once did and it automatically becomes who he is.
 
sgjazzfan said:
Just because he studies the Pick and Roll, that doesn't mean he's a specialist. I love how everyone takes a small piece of something he once did and it automatically becomes who he is.
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He co-authored a pretty detailed analysis on the P&R. It's heavy reading and looks at the P&R from all angles of the court, not just the traditional Stockton-Malone P&R.
 
Core4 said:
He co-authored a pretty detailed analysis on the P&R. It's heavy reading and looks at the P&R from all angles of the court, not just the traditional Stockton-Malone P&R.
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Yeah, but that doesn't mean that's who he is as a coach. It makes sense that he will study basketball as a basketball coach, but we'll have to wait and see how he applies that to his offense.
 
I would not be surprise if the Jazz take Smart for Orlando, In a trade for Parker. For the Jazz, Gordon if Tomic comes over, Vonleh if Tomic stays.
 
After Gordon's miraculous workout today you can cross everyone not named "A-God" off the list.
 
Core4 said:
He co-authored a pretty detailed analysis on the P&R. It's heavy reading and looks at the P&R from all angles of the court, not just the traditional Stockton-Malone P&R.
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In Locke's interview, he is asked about that analysis. Besides saying that 80% of all half court sets involve PNRs, he was told some years ago by Lindsey that PNR defense gets coaches fired and hired. Check out this beginning at about the 7:25 mark:

https://kfanav.s3.amazonaws.com/20140607_Quin-Snyder-with-Locke-WEB.mp3

If it is Smart who can contribute the most on the defensive end in PNR situations, he may still be very much in play at 5.
 
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