I mentioned the Jazz need to draft two point guards too. I got some blow back from that opinion. I doubt the Jazz do draft two PGs but improving the PG position is certainly the greatest need on the team. Our backcourt especially PG is just terrible. Mo is too costly and is really a SG playing PG. Burks is OK as a backup PG but he is a SG too. Watson and Tinsley are over the hill and should only be getting mop up minutes.
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I mentioned the Jazz need to draft two point guards too. I got some blow back from that opinion. I doubt the Jazz do draft two PGs but improving the PG position is certainly the greatest need on the team. Our backcourt especially PG is just terrible. Mo is too costly and is really a SG playing PG. Burks is OK as a backup PG but he is a SG too. Watson and Tinsley are over the hill and should only be getting mop up minutes.
I agree. I'm not convinced he's in this draft, either. I'm high on CJ McCollum but he's still very unproven as a prospect. And I don't think Burke will ever be more than a solid starter.
If we could package BPA + other considerations for an impact PG who is already in the league, I'd be all for it.
And if the Jazz draft a big, they're almost guaranteed to be a backup as well (if not buried) despite being stocked at the starting positions. Same with wings.
Team needs when the roster is so wildly unbalanced are very relevant.
That is easily the most compelling part of your argument.
Two seasons ago.. I wanted to play the young guys (what some people called tanking, but I called playing for the future), get a nice draft pick (last year) and go ALL in for an elite PG. We'd have the supporting cast with experience and the cap room to sign a PG to a big deal.. we ****ed that up and now we're talking about drafting two ****ty PG's and hope one turns out to be decent so we can continue to bathe in our bubble bath of mediocrity.
mellow
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Ouch.
I try to stay optomistic about the Jazz, but I have a real hard time understanding what this team has done in the draft in almost every year since 1986. I have a real hope that Dennis Lindsey will change that. It is that hope that burns in my soul like a small blue flame pushing back the darkness that would consume my Jazz fanness.
After all, Lindsey came from Houston and San Antonio--two teams that have had much more success in the draft than the Jazz, and have made smarter decisions on players than the Jazz. There is hope. There has to be because I don't want to consider the alternative.
Don't forget that Dragic (who I wanted) went right after Tomic.
Park Bites
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draft is going to be McCollum and Karasev in the first and Mike Muscala in the second
Jazz4ever
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One consequence of drafting a big is it would mean Favors would be the permanent PF, and his defensive impact would take a small hit.
Kanter is going to have to play center against most teams, and the crop of Austin, Adams, Withey, Dieng, Gobert, Olynyk, Jaiteh, Nogueira, etc are all likely centers. A good problem to have though....maybe.
Kanter is going to have to play center against most teams, and the crop of Austin, Adams, Withey, Dieng, Gobert, Olynyk, Jaiteh, Nogueira, etc are all likely centers. A good problem to have though....maybe.