Following potential 2015 draftees

[Park Bites]

I am hoping a team falls in love with porzingis and looney.

 

[Park Bites]

and kaminsky

 

[Stifle Tower]

It depends on how the lotto shakes out, imo. Stranger things have happened. Exum was supposed to be a lock in the top 4 last year until Orly fell in love with Gordon.....and Elfrid Payton apparently.

So he dropped 1 spot. Russell is projected by most to go ahead of Mudiay. I think Mudiay could be the one to drop a few spots. He's a big unknown, maybe less than Exum, but China isn't exactly Europe or the NCAA when it comes to level of competition.

 

[Coach Ellis]

I don't see Russell outside of the top 4. If the Jazz want him, they have to pay a premium price to do so. I'm still high on Stanley Johnson. Think he has some Jimmy Butler type of potential. I can see him developing into a star defender early (especially in a lineup that features Gobert, Favors, Hayward and Exum) and then figuring out his offensive game a few years down the road.

 

[Elizah Huge]

If the season ended today the lottery would look like this:

1. New York Knicks
2. Minnesota Timberwolves
3. Philadelphia 76ers
4. Los Angeles Lakers
5. Orlando Magic
6. Sacramento Kings
7. Denver Nuggets
8. Detroit Pistons
9. Charlotte Hornets
10. Indiana Pacers
11. Utah Jazz
12. Atlanta Hawks via Brooklyn Nets
13. Phoenix Suns
14. New Orleans Pelicans

Realistically the highest the Jazz could move up to is #9. The Hornets are 30-41, the Pacers are 31-41, and the Jazz are 31-41. The Nuggets are 28-45 and Pistons are 28-44.

Say the Jazz did move up to #9, I think the best 8 players are Okafor, Towns, Russell, Mudiay, WCS, Winslow, Johnson, Hezonja. All it would take is one of the teams ahead of them to fall in love with Porzingis, Kaminsky, Looney, or even Oubre for one of them to fall to us. On the flip side if we stayed at #11 we would be guaranteed one of:

Okafor
Towns
Russell
Mudiay
WCS
Winslow
Johnson
Hezonja
Porizingis
Kaminsky
Oubre

It would be awesome to end up at #9 and somehow Hezonja fell to us. Also don't think it would be all that bad to take Oubre at #11.

 

[spycam1]

Was really impressed with Winslow tonight. He seemed very poised and stepped up big time at the right moments.

 

[kabenac]

Looney is garbage, hasn't impressed me in any games I've watched.. He's skinny as a rail too.

Did you watch his defense?

 

[Park Bites]

Did you watch his defense?

Frustrated wiltjer all game. The zags leading scorer

 

[spycam1]

Frustrated wiltjer all game. The zags leading scorer

The Kentucky reject.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Did you watch his defense?

Nah, WC doesn't know ish.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The Kentucky reject.

More like the smart guy who rejected Kentucky.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Nah, WC doesn't know ish.

You're the idiot saying Delon Wright isn't a 2nd-rounder when DX has him at #29.