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Following potential 2014 draftees

As long as we draft Wiggins or Parker, I'll be happy. It's amazing that these dudes are only 18, walk on a college basketball court, and are the best players on their team. Tons of talent and they're only going to get better.

So here's to the Steph Curry diarrhea debacle that will land us the top two picks, which will result in us drafting both Wiggins and Parker.
 
So here's a question
Do Jazz have to get Wiggins or Parker to be a legit contender for next ten years?
Would Randle or Exum or Embiid or whoever be enough to contend?
 
slc said:
So here's a question
Do Jazz have to get Wiggins or Parker to be a legit contender for next ten years?
Would Randle or Exum or Embiid or whoever be enough to contend?
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Randle is a guy I think can lead a contender, too. It would be more complicated if we drafted Randle than it would if we got Jabari or Wiggins, cause we'd have to figure out what to do with Favors/Kanter, but he's definitely someone who would be a legit #1 pick in a normal draft.

Exum...not sure. Many scouts seem to be grouping him in with Wiggins/Parker/Randle, but I haven't seen enough of him to really say, tbh. If he IS on their level, then he'd fit in nicely at the 2 with Hayward at the 3.

Embiid seems to have major potential, but is several years away from being a major contributor (he just started playing basketball in 2011, I believe).
 
spycam1 said:
Coach Cal said that if he simply wanted to win basketball games this season (and not also focus on developing the players' games), then he would never have Randle be more than 7 feet away from the basket. You would never say that about LeBron. Comparing anyone to LeBron is just silly, imo.

I think Randle can certainly play some SF in college, and he probably will be fine seeing spot minutes there in the NBA against certain match ups, but he's a PF--a versatile PF, I'll give you that, but a PF none the less. He completely dominated inside against Mich St. His post moves are already better than Griffin's, Favors', and so on. He's not a guy you want floating out on the perimeter for the majority of the game, therefore, he's not a SF. Just.......let it go. Please. At least take it down a notch.
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Was just reporting what Marcus Lee was saying....
 
I suppose missing one of those top two would then make free agency very important for us.

Well it already is i guess, we should have a thread for that as well.
 
PKM said:
Calipari told some close friends that last year's team that ALMOST beat Duke early in the season were high-fiving each other in the locker room because they felt it was a sign how good they would be.

Versus this year's team loses a close one to MIchSt and Cal said half the team was literally crying in frustration and that night ALL of them were in the gym practcing on their own to get better.
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I actually wanted UK to lose at the end there just so they can learn from the experience.

Kinda like a mother watching her son fall and get up without helping him.
 
BTP said:
Honestly 1 win vs a team that's top3 worst coached teams in the league doesn't make the Jazz playoff contender. Right now the Jazz are the worst team in the league by quite a big margin. And that has 3 reasons:
1) Burke injury
2) Bigs playing inconsistent
3) No bench(That may change though with injured guys returning)
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yep there were qualifiers to what I said.(That right now I don't see us hitting)
 
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