Following Potential 2025 Draftees

[The Jazz Wonderbra]

My draft priorities:

- Trade up without overpaying for the #2. Lauri for the #2 for example. Most people feel like that isnt enough but getting an All Star for the #2 pick is fair trade value in most drafts especially with other draft considerations.

- If not then stay at 5 and pick the guy that falls between VJ, Tre, and Bailey

- Pick #21 pick up one of the superfreak lanky athletes remaining in the model of Essengue, Flemming (most likely not available that late), Beringer, Raynauld, etc especially one with the highest ceiling. If none are available then snag a Yang.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Can any Analytics Assassins see how many 6'5 (without shoes) or taller lottery picks with 3 (or less) dunks on the season haves fared in the NBA?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

So Kon tested with a 36.5 inch max vert… slow agility drill… I don’t want to hear about Tre being the better athlete at this point. He has some advantages but not sure that’s one.

 

[Schrödinger's Gerbil]

But we already have Kessler. Why throw the kitchen sink to draft a guy who might one day be better than a guy who’s already solid? Why not use those assets to obtain a good player to replace one of our many sucky players? I don’t understand why the center position is a priority (throw the kitchen sink) when our 1-3 are dreadful?

Edit meant to respond to @whatthe

It's the hope for the new, better, bigger, brighter, shinier thing together with the discounting of what one already has.

It's kind similar to those people on game shows who win a large sum of money but who then gamble it away on the hope of winning an even bigger prize. (Very dumb. It's "house money," or so the reasoning goes. As if it's not real. However, it's pretty much the same thing as taking the same sum of money out of your bank account and gambling that.) Or like the paunchy middle-aged man who's wife hasn't maintained the same figure she had at 19 whose eyes go wandering. (The large number of balding, overweight middle-aged men who objectify women and think they're an object of sexual desire for young female hotties is always an amazing thing to behold.)

The known is never is as good, sexy, or exciting as the unknown, into which we pour all of our hopes, dreams, and fantasies.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

So Kon tested with a 36.5 inch max vert… slow agility drill… I don’t want to hear about Tre being the better athlete at this point. He has some advantages but not sure that’s one.

Don't be stupid

 

[Deleted member 365]

It's the hope for the new, better, bigger, brighter, shinier thing together with the discounting of what one already has.

It's kind similar to those people on game shows who win a large sum of money but who then gamble it away on the hope of winning an even bigger prize. (Very dumb. It's "house money," or so the reasoning goes. As if it's not real. However, it's pretty much the same thing as taking the same sum of money out of your bank account and gambling that.) Or like the paunchy middle-aged man who's wife hasn't maintained the same figure she had at 19 whose eyes go wandering. (The large number of balding, overweight middle-aged men who objectify women and think they're an object of sexual desire for young female hotties is always an amazing thing to behold.)

The known is never is as good, sexy, or exciting as the unknown, into which we pour all of our hopes, dreams, and fantasies.

This is a weird post and I don’t really know what you’re talking about.

I dont think we should be throwing the kitchen sink at any center (it’s the most replaceable position in basketball) unless they’re named joker. And I wouldn’t throw the kitchen sink at any duke player in this draft unless they’re named cooper.

 

[Schrödinger's Gerbil]

This is a weird post and I don’t really know what you’re talking about.

I dont think we should be throwing the kitchen sink at any center unless they’re named joker. And I wouldn’t throw the kitchen sink at any duke player in this draft unless they’re named cooper.

It's a response to this from you: "But we already have Kessler. Why throw the kitchen sink to draft a guy who might one day be better than a guy who’s already solid? " You were wondering why we'd throw the kitchen sink at someone at a position when we already have someone good there. This is why, in my opinion, with some editorializing on the side.

 

[Deleted member 365]

It's a response to this from you: "But we already have Kessler. Why throw the kitchen sink to draft a guy who might one day be better than a guy who’s already solid? "

Yes. And read my response to you (which you obviously didn’t read)

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Don't be stupid

Bro he’s got better activity stats, driving numbers, and basically equaled Tre here… add in the fact that he’s likely in a different class strength wise. Tres off the dribble stuff is his big advantage imo.

 

[Schrödinger's Gerbil]

Yes. And read my response to you (which you obviously didn’t read)

LOL, We're evidently on different wavelengths. Oh well.

BTW, I did read it, and I agree. If the Jazz draft Maluach or Knipple, I'm shaving my head, donning a burlap sack, and pouring ashes on my head.

I wouldn't mind a decent backup center who can stretch the floor and is serviceable on defense (e.g., a poor man's Miles Turner) but not as a high draft pick. Kessler is a quality center, we have other, more pressing needs.

 

[Deleted member 365]

LOL, We're evidently on different wavelengths. Oh well.

BTW, I did read it, and I agree. If the Jazz draft Maluach or Knipple, I'm shaving my head, donning a burlap sack, and pouring ashes on my head.

I wouldn't mind a decent backup center who can stretch the floor and is serviceable on defense (e.g., a poor man's Miles Turner) but not as a high draft pick. Kessler is a quality center, we have other, more pressing needs.

So you want to throw the kitchen sink at a backup center?

If he’s the BPA at 21? Sure whatever. But I don’t think the Jazz should throw “the kitchen sink” at any center in this year’s draft. The only player who warrants the kitchen sink is cooper Flagg.

That is the argument that you injected yourself into.

 

[Schrödinger's Gerbil]

So you want to throw the kitchen sink for a backup center?

God, no. Where did I say that?