Speaking of drafting with hindsight, y'all need to switch to NBATv right now to see who the Jazz should've taken.
Maybe we get lucky this year picking #12. In a few years philly fans will say, "can't believe we took Mudiay and that guy was drafted by Utah 8 spots lower."Man, the fact that Klay Thompson was taken 8 picks below Enes Kanter is just mind blowing.
Paul Millsap is a garbage vet? Okur? Big Al? Favors? Marvin Williams?
^ that's who he had to compete with. The only one I would realistically expect any inexperienced rookie to outplay is Williams, which he did.
Gobert emerged this year, and Favors was already signed as a cornerstone. Do you begrudge being able to see Gobert play more? Gobert and Booker were crying for more minutes too, ya know. Tell me, why should a player with his potential have been content as a role player? That's the mindset that turns lotto picks into Marvin Williams. We just never had a fit for him. Maybe things would have been different had we not kept Ty the last year of his contract, or started the rebuild a year earlier. Who cares. We're going to be great without him. He'll be good too.
Let's say Exum doesn't start next year with Burks back, possibly bringing over Neto, or we get a vet PG. I'll be pissed if he resigns himself to a role player. Even if he isn't better than who is starting ahead of him, I know his potential. I don't want our lotto picks selling themselves short before they've really had a chance to grow--they are too painful to acquire.
We saw Enes' talents, but never had fertile ground for him to grow here. He needed minutes and a PG, we had little of either. Favors was already a year ahead of him in NBA development in NBA years, and more if you consider college, and as a defensive big, his impact was less reliant upon a PG. Gobert is a freak of nature, and also a defensive big. We just weren't Enes' right fit.
Yes, but that's not what this article/thread was about.
Then he should have been a great fit in Utah. Go figure.
I think this is all being blown out of proportion. Not wanting to go to a team that has a log jam and no immediate plans of fixing it is not unreasonable. It's very logical. Answering a question with honesty isn't treachery, or a quality of a bad person.
As has already been said, the immature **** was said in his post shootaround interview. I think his post game was misconstrued, as is this. Why be so hyper-sensitive? Why look for **** to be pissed off about like a chemically imbalanced teenage baby mama?
Im not sure if you and others don't get it because you are this way or you feel that people are automatically owed something in society or what. But the issue is not that he didn't WANT to be in the situation, or even that he said so publicly imo. The issue is that once he was in that situation he slacked off and played ****ty on purpose because he didn't get his way. Then he cried about not getting his way and botched about how terrible things were because he didn't get his way instead of ****ING DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT like actually DOING HIS ****ING JOB AND EARNING HIS TIME. That's the issue. That's the insult to everyone who goes to work for a hell of a lot less than he makes and busts their *** for pennies while prissy little bitches like Kanter cry about how unfair life is as a 20 year old millionaire. Suck it up and do your job.
He didn't say he didn't try hard, he said he didn't bring it every night.
First off, this article/thread isn't about that comment. But, since you brought it up, I think that's the comment that has been least understood. He didn't say he didn't try hard, he said he didn't bring it every night. The first would be worth all the vitriol, the second I read as an acknowledgement for lack of production, not effort. He is saying he wasn't consistent. He views his lack of consistency as a product of his inconsistent role. His native tongue isn't English, his grammar and syntax are almost never correct, but yet so many are quick to believe his every word is chosen without error there, and that he purposefully sabotaged his reputation as a hard worker just to get back at the Jazz?
The comment I take issue with is the one about only missing the mountains--that was childish.
Reread the article in the OP. Honestly, what is so bad about it? It's a lot more honest than slanderous. Those who are hurt are letting their anger blind them.