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Following Potential 2018 Draftees

Incidentally, I think Thabo Sefalosha's contract has a bit of trade value to teams that want to win. We might be able to trade Sefalosha and #20 to move up to #16 or #17 possibly. We'd probably have to take back a bit of money, but now that we have Crowder, Exum and O'Neale we might be able to move Thabo.
 
It's been oft said that I bring up and talk about all the players, which is of course a generalization. If you look at the 3-star recruits i've mentioned, it's really just a handful of them and their success rate is really really high....

Donte DiVicienzo is a player i've been posting about here since early freshman year... his stock is at an all time high, clearly in the Jazz 2nd rd range. I'm surprised there isn't more people clamoring for him. He's a player Matt Harpring will love for damn sure. 6'6" athletic, strong, can shoot, explosive, engaged defender. whats not to like? Gimmie Donte over Grayson Allen any day of the week.

If u go back to any of my posts about him from years ago u'll see I had him pegged pretty much spot on. Even said he could be a priority 2nd rder, not just a player they take a flier on in the 50's.
 
There was some funny old twitter posts dug up of Donte's nothing too crazy, the best one was along the lines of how his father wanted him to play soccer and called him a ***** for playing basketball..
 


I like him. I could see him as a bench player. Good size. Decent handle. Confident shooter. Plays defense. Kid has some swagger to him. Good kind of player to use a 2nd round pick on.
 
Gilles de Rais said:
It's been oft said that I bring up and talk about all the players, which is of course a generalization. If you look at the 3-star recruits i've mentioned, it's really just a handful of them and their success rate is really really high....

Donte DiVicienzo is a player i've been posting about here since early freshman year... his stock is at an all time high, clearly in the Jazz 2nd rd range. I'm surprised there isn't more people clamoring for him. He's a player Matt Harpring will love for damn sure. 6'6" athletic, strong, can shoot, explosive, engaged defender. whats not to like? Gimmie Donte over Grayson Allen any day of the week.

If u go back to any of my posts about him from years ago u'll see I had him pegged pretty much spot on. Even said he could be a priority 2nd rder, not just a player they take a flier on in the 50's.
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Donte will measure at 6'4". but yeah, definitely like him better than grayson.
 
So the first domino of returning bigs has fallen with Daniel Gafford going back to Arkansas for his Sophomore season. Not a particularly good thing for the Jazz anyway you slice it, it's likely he'd have gone top-20 and pushed whoever else their looking at back a slot..

PSU's PG Tony Carr, a former 4-star PG_AB favorite, is entering the draft and hiring an agent. He should be safely inside the top-40.

It also seems that Troy Brown (Oregon) is not only in but his agent being hired is imminent. their playing it like his time at Oregon is done, which has major implications for college basketball next season cuz if he returned Oregon is the best team on the west-coast hands-down...
 
seattlejazzfan said:
Donte will measure at 6'4". but yeah, definitely like him better than grayson.
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I think he's more like 6'5" tbh, could be a deal-breaker with Utah if he's 6'4", putting him next to Mitchell doesn't seem as viable... Even though he's 21 I do actually think he might hav a case to return next year and boost his stock higher. If he's close to the 1st rd he should probably strike while the iron's hot, thats what I thought about Buddy Hield after his Jr. season though too..
 
Gilles de Rais said:
It also seems that Troy Brown (Oregon) is not only in but his agent being hired is imminent. their playing it like his time at Oregon is done, which has major implications for college basketball next season cuz if he returned Oregon is the best team on the west-coast hands-down...
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I still like Troy Brown. I think he'll be a better pro than college player. He doesn't have super upside, but could be a solid rotation player. He'll at least be markedly better than Tyrone Wallace, who has been getting real minutes with the Clippers.
 
I am still solidly on the train of draft the best 3/4. I think that is the direction the position is moving in the future and will give the Jazz the best chance to compete in the future.
 
Xthren said:
I am still solidly on the train of draft the best 3/4. I think that is the direction the position is moving in the future and will give the Jazz the best chance to compete in the future.
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I’m in the draft the best non center... unless you are absolutely effing convinced that you are getting a Gobert/Capela like prospect.

Drafting for positional need is a bad idea. Get the best player possible hopefully one with decent upside. I’m not really that excited after 11/12 in this draft tbh... no prospect that I really love in our range or hate.
 
Catchall said:
I still like Troy Brown. I think he'll be a better pro than college player. He doesn't have super upside, but could be a solid rotation player. He'll at least be markedly better than Tyrone Wallace, who has been getting real minutes with the Clippers.
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Tyrone Wallace is gonna stick in the NBA! Perhaps in a DeAndre Liggins type capacity he's got staying power though. Watching those Cal teams I always had a good feeling about his pro potential.

Troy Brown if he were to really develop into a knockdown shooter, which is unlikely, would have a ton of upside IMO.

Jazz or their fans don't need to concern themselves with him though. He's completely redundant to Exum, who imo is/was definitely a superior prospect..
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I’m in the draft the best non center... unless you are absolutely effing convinced that you are getting a Gobert/Capela like prospect.

Drafting for positional need is a bad idea. Get the best player possible hopefully one with decent upside. I’m not really that excited after 11/12 in this draft tbh... no prospect that I really love in our range or hate.
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There are some Capela like candidates in that range, which is the range Capela himself went in...

The closest is probably Maryland's Bruno Fernando, who could very well be staying to improve his stock for next years draft, possibly as high as the lotto..

The other, and now Capela plays the game with an indomitable will -- so he's not an ez comparison, would IMO be True-7footer, Mitchell Robinson.. He has elite physical tools, there's no question about that, u watch him play for like 5 minutes and you'll see it.

Mitchell Robinson directly benefits from Daniel Gafford returning to Arkansas for his Sophomore season too.

We all know nationally the Jazz fly way under the radar. People see the team in small spurts and are impressed though, because they have impressive players/system/coach etc. To me, Mitchell Robinson is the perfect kind of player for the Jazz in that respect, he's got major "who the hell is this guy" power... I still think he compares to Hassan Whiteside, and I think he can play some PF, he's got fantastic, WCS levels of agility and footspeed.
 
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