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Fears shot a lot of unassisted, off-the-dribble jumpers. No one is expecting an 18 y.o. to be efficient on those. The 52% finishing at the rim is a fair concern, but should be fixable with coaching. He needs to get his percentage up to the mid-60s. Fears isn't a sure thing, but he's a reasonable risk/reward play
 
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VJ had a similar TS% as Fears and if you believe Fears took easier or better shots isn’t that worrisome?
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
I wish he were a bit bigger, but he's got juice off the dribble. He'll need to learn to finish better and will probably need to work in floaters. He also needs to be able to shoot off the dribble from deep. In that sense, he's underdeveloped, but the baseline of talent is certainly there to be an exciting, dynamic guard in a few years.


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basically everything that one would have said about collier coming out of college - with near exact height/length. we got collier at 29
 
bigmike said:
This dude POPS on tape.

The size is an issue and I do wonder if he’s duplicative to Keynote but I think he’s a better playmaker.

If we don’t trade out of 5, I hope we move down for him or Kas. Or just take them there, whatever.
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he's duplicative of collier but not as good of a playmaker.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
basically everything that one would have said about collier coming out of college - with near exact height/length. we got collier at 29
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The difference is whether the Jazz believe in Fears as a shooter more than Collier. Until Collier shows he can shoot, he's the proverbial Elfrid Payton.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I think the main reason no one is really considering Fears is because we want to believe in Collier.
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it's because he's a near clone of Collier and we got Collier at 29. that's the issue with Fears at 5. there are some things Fears has/does that are better, some things Collier has/does that are better - but by and large they are the same size and have the same strengths and weaknesses.
 
Elizah Huge said:
VJ had a similar TS% as Fears and if you believe Fears took easier or better shots isn’t that worrisome?
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I know I said “easy” before, but what I really mean is efficient/better. Creating efficient shots is a skill and talent. If they had the same TS%, but Fears was all spot ups that would be concerning. But a high% of Fears offense is self created.

And just to be clear, I did call him the biggest boom or bust prospect. There is high uncertainty with his shot. He is no guarantee to hit on his potential, just saying that the ability to create those shots has big value.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
it's because he's a near clone of Collier and we got Collier at 29. that's the issue with Fears at 5. there are some things Fears has/does that are better, some things Collier has/does that are better - but by and large they are the same size and have the same strengths and weaknesses.
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I don’t see them as clones
 
KqWIN said:
I know I said “easy” before, but what I really mean is efficient/better. Creating efficient shots is a skill and talent. If they had the same TS%, but Fears was all spot ups that would be concerning. But a high% of Fears offense is self created.

And just to be clear, I did call him the biggest boom or bust prospect. There is high uncertainty with his shot. He is no guarantee to hit on his potential, just saying that the ability to create those shots has big value.
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Fears is good. He’s probably around 7-8 to me which is fair I think. There are multiple guys I’d rather take a chance on.
 
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