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Following potential 2015 draftees

Here's the youtube video from DraftExpress on Porzingis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWOjHoJ-U6A
 
Beer said:
Thanks for the info, I may be off on most of my post but I am certainly not off on 1 thing. When you play with a bunch of great players you're going to get easier shots than if you're playing with a bunch of no ones. You have to double on more than a few Kentucky players. I like Booker but not until 12 or so.
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Agree.
 
Eminence said:
Looking at the some of the NCAA guards/wings advanced stats in case anyone hasn't glanced at them:

Player- Usage- TS%- Reb%- Ast%- TOV%- OBPM/DBPM- PER

Russel- 29.9%- 58%- 10%- 31%- 15%- 9.4/3.0- 27.8
Johnson- 27.1%- 55%- 14%- 13%- 15%- 4.8/5.7- 22.9
Oubre- 22.8%- 55%- 14%- 9%- 11%- 5.5/3.9- 22.1
Booker- 23.5%- 61%- 5%- 12%- 10%- 7.8/2.0- 21.2
Winslow- 22.7%- 56%- 12%- 13%- 14%- 4.6/4.1- 20.5
Grant- 24.3%- 60%- 5%- 34%- 13%- 8.5/1.0- 26.9

Some things I feel like I get out of all them dang numbers. Russell/Grant are obviously in a league of their own for offensive creation (OBPM/AST%). Though Grant's usage number was lower than I anticipated. On the other side of the ball Johnson is ahead of the others by a ways. All of their TS% seem solid to me, though Booker's the best of the group. All in all they all seem like more than solid prospects and I'd be happy to have any of them in Utah.
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Grant pretty good PER with 26.9. Right up there with Russell.
 
NAOS said:
naive question here:

If Stauskas and Booker were in the same draft, how would they be ranked and compared?

Thanks.
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Stauskas was the #1 option on Michigan so he had a lot of ball handling and creating opportunities. Booker has to play off ball a lot which basically renders him a catch and shoot guy. Comparing them when they had the same role (Stauskas' frosh season), Booker is a much better prospect. I think Booker could do more than catch and shoot and we'll see that in the NBA.
 
Walt Perrin, VP of Player Personnel, just had an interview and said some interesting stuff... He said he's been watching the college game more than the Jazz and is preparing for the draft. He said he's looking at players who can shoot and make plays for teammates, because our defense is good, but we need improvements on offense. When asked if he's fallen in love with some player in the draft who would be worth maybe using our assets for us to throw in and get, he said "yes, there are a couple of guys, that would probably be taken before we pick". Several times he emphasized looking for great outside shooting.

If I had to guess, he's talking about Russell and probably Hezonja?

If those are unavailable I think that makes Booker really intriguing for the FO.
 
stitches said:
Walt Perrin, VP of Player Personnel, just had an interview and said some interesting stuff... He said he's been watching the college game more than the Jazz and is preparing for the draft. He said he's looking at players who can shoot and make plays for teammates, because our defense is good, but we need improvements on offense. When asked if he's fallen in love with some player in the draft who would be worth maybe using our assets for us to throw in and get, he said "yes, there are a couple of guys, that would probably be taken before we pick". Several times he emphasized looking for great outside shooting.

If I had to guess, he's talking about Russell and probably Hezonja?

If those are unavailable I think that makes Booker really intriguing for the FO.
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Thanks for posting I will give it a listen, but in general Walt is terrible.
 
Eminence said:
Looking at the some of the NCAA guards/wings advanced stats in case anyone hasn't glanced at them:

Player- Usage- TS%- Reb%- Ast%- TOV%- OBPM/DBPM- PER

Russel- 29.9%- 58%- 10%- 31%- 15%- 9.4/3.0- 27.8
Johnson- 27.1%- 55%- 14%- 13%- 15%- 4.8/5.7- 22.9
Oubre- 22.8%- 55%- 14%- 9%- 11%- 5.5/3.9- 22.1
Booker- 23.5%- 61%- 5%- 12%- 10%- 7.8/2.0- 21.2
Winslow- 22.7%- 56%- 12%- 13%- 14%- 4.6/4.1- 20.5
Grant- 24.3%- 60%- 5%- 34%- 13%- 8.5/1.0- 26.9

Some things I feel like I get out of all them dang numbers. Russell/Grant are obviously in a league of their own for offensive creation (OBPM/AST%). Though Grant's usage number was lower than I anticipated. On the other side of the ball Johnson is ahead of the others by a ways. All of their TS% seem solid to me, though Booker's the best of the group. All in all they all seem like more than solid prospects and I'd be happy to have any of them in Utah.
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Decided to look through other wings and guards and see if I could find any who might be worth a look later in the draft.

Levert- not really in our pick range, but if not for the injury I'm sure he'd be in the running for the lottery.
Anderson- Numbers equal to any of the above guys, older, want to see him in the tourney.
Wright- Also very solid numbers, I'm sure lots of teams will look at him late first/early second.
 
It's no secret that Russell is the perfect complement to what the Jazz currently have. You can tell by the role Ingles has--taking minutes away from Hood--that the Jazz want to move the ball on offense. Russell puts a lot of pressure on the defense with all the things he can do.
 
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