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Following Potential 2025 Draftees

With Ace you have to talk yourself into him being Ant (not his game but with the red flags) or like Tatum had a lot of that Mamba Mentality that had to be weeded out. Ant had some weird interviews... some flaws in his game... and played for an unserious team. Ant was a much better prospect but you are hoping some of this is just immaturity and the other stuff can be redirected. If they are actually coachable (like interviews I can see drawing some wild stuff out of an 18-19 yo) and a hard worker... that is will be what matters most.

I think the way its trending there is like a 30-50% chance its Ace that is available at 5. I can see a team trading up for him and jumping us (Wizards would be the first candidate)... if he landed at 5 I'd be fine making that bet or taking him and sliding back for someone else we believe in... if there is a nice premium.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
If Ace falls to us cuz he doesn't have great interview etiquette I'm pleased
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The last time a player fell to the Jazz due to just horrible interviews, it was 2023 when Cam Whitmore fell to the Jazz at 16.

... And then the Jazz passed on him for Keyonte because Keyonte interviewed so much better.

Keyonte is viewed as a better prospect than Whitmore and both are pretty marginal prospects so it was obviously fine.

Cam and Ace are obviously very different in that Whitmore basically gave one to two word answers to every question and seemed nearly asleep every time he did interviews, whereas Ace thinks he's the greatest basketball player to ever live. Very different types of bad interviewer so we don't know if the Jazz mind these bad answers from Ace.

The Jazz also picked Cody in large part due to how well he interviewed so we'll see if they change their approach after Cody was horrendous.
 
KqWIN said:
The three sleepers JE had:

Clayton Jr
Traoré
Fleming

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I can see Clayton Jr being slept on based on his age. I can kind of see Traore being slept on based on being an international prospect that people don't get to see and having his numbers tanked by a potentially unrepresentative sample. I'm not sure how Fleming is slept on? Maybe because he played in a lower conference? I would say that's actually why is a little bit of a risk because we don't have a lot of data against good competition.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I can see Clayton Jr being slept on based on his age. I can kind of see Traore being slept on based on being an international prospect that people don't get to see and having his numbers tanked by a potentially unrepresentative sample. I'm not sure how Fleming is slept on? Maybe because he played in a lower conference? I would say that's actually why is a little bit of a risk because we don't have a lot of data against good competition.
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That entire list is my slept on list, since I now don’t think Noa is slept on anymore.

I think Clayton late first will look like a homerun in a few years.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I can see Clayton Jr being slept on based on his age. I can kind of see Traore being slept on based on being an international prospect that people don't get to see and having his numbers tanked by a potentially unrepresentative sample. I'm not sure how Fleming is slept on? Maybe because he played in a lower conference? I would say that's actually why is a little bit of a risk because we don't have a lot of data against good competition.
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I've just seen so many mocks recently that have Clayton in the teens that I am not sure he really is slept on... seems pretty high/about right to me.
 
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