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Gobert's rise to the Greatest Jazz Center of All Time!

Corbin needs to take the leash off this beast. Let the French Phenom become the greatest ever that he's destined to become.

More minutes for the Steifel Tower. Any more DNP - Coaches Decisions and a dedicated Jazzfanz member is going to need to organize a picket line outside of Energy Solutions Arena.
 
Added Brett Vroman and inserted an overlooked Paul Grant at #46. Notice he is rocking the black and copper alternate road Unis. Loved those uniforms.
 
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Didn't he play bass in Dokken?
 
framer said:
#51 William Cunningham
Points 8
Rebounds 8
Blocks 0
Steals 2
Assists 1
Mr. Cunningham, a legit 6'11'' 250 undrafted out of Temple played 6 games for the Jazz, actually starting 2 in 1996. Jazz were pretty good in this timeframe, so the starts are kind of mystifying
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They're not mystifying at all. I remember this well because one of the games he started was nationally televised. It was 1998, not 1996. He started because the two Gregs were both hurt and the Jazz preferred to keep Big Dawg coming off the bench.
 
See that's just like Jerry Sloan, limiting the Big Dog's development by playing him fewer minutes. #FreeAntoineCarr
 
framer said:
See that's just like Jerry Sloan, limiting the Big Dog's development by playing him fewer minutes. #FreeAntoineCarr
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You gotta bring players along slowly. You can't just take a 36 year old, only 18 years removed from playing HS ball. and let him play large minutes. It could ruin his confidence and hinder development.
 
Gobert also passes Walt Palmer:

#43 Walter Palmer
Points 42
Rebounds 21
Blocks 4
Steals 3
Assists 6

I personally remember Walt Palmer as the worst player on the first NBA simulation game I played at my friend's house on his Sega (I think.) You would start the game up, select the Jazz, then immediately cut him. In real life, Palmer played in 28 games for the 90-91 Jazz, including 6 minutes in the playoffs. Drafted in the second round by the Jazz out of Dartmouth, Palmer went on to play one more year for Denver then headed to Europe. There, he single handedly unionized European basketball. Seriously, look it up. Definitely a living embodiment of the age old maximum, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, head to Europe, fail there, then discover a need to unionize European basketball players."

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#42 Pete Chilcutt
Points 47
Rebounds 43
Blocks 4
Steals 5
Assists 10
For some reason I had high hopes when the Jazz acquired Chilcutt even though he was eight years into a mediocre career. He was brought in to replace the departing Greg Foster. He certainly wasn't the answer to getting us back to the finals in 1999. It also amuses me that him and Scott Padgett were on the same team for some reason. It's like we were into collecting white college allstars with no NBA game at precisely the point that we should have been getting real help for Stockton and Malone. But hey, at least we didn't trade Danny Ainge for the right to draft him like the Kings did. Chilcutt currently works as a sixth grade teacher, which is kind of cool.
This is pretty much how I remember Chilcutt on the Jazz
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If you had to choose right now between Gobert, Favors, or Kanter to let one go, who would it be? For me it would be Kanter for his inability on D. If he can show he can hit a 3 with regularity, that could change. But Gobert is looking like a true impact player.
 
zman1527 said:
If you had to choose right now between Gobert, Favors, or Kanter to let one go, who would it be? For me it would be Kanter for his inability on D. If he can show he can hit a 3 with regularity, that could change. But Gobert is looking like a true impact player.
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Kanter because his contract is over this year and we would have to actually pay him money. 2 more years of cheap Gobert after this year.
 
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