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How bad/good is Cody Williams?

sip said:
I'm excited to see the what Cody and Ace can do defensively. We haven't had that type of length defensively since probably AK and Brewer but they were kind offset by Boozer and Okur. Add in a healthy Hendricks and Kessler and you may have the makings of a damn good defense. Plenty of length to hopefully offset Key defensively or ideally it forces him to take ownership on that end of the court. He has the physical tools to be decent on that end of the court but he has been surrounded by terrible perimeter defenders since he was drafted so it may have led to a mindset of not caring that much. It seems like guys try harder on that end of the court when other guys are putting in the work as well.
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I've been saying this a few too many times, but the Jazz's defense could take a substantial nonlinear jump. Good systems with the right minor additions can do that. It's not implausible to go from 28th or 29th to above league average.

Now that they've traded away most of the vets, the defense is clearly the biggest potential risk to the tank. They have to make sure that Ace, Hendricks, and Williams get a lot of shots up this year. And, for the love of Jebus, can we get more 3s from Kessler? At least for next season? Ensure the tank in these ways, pls.
 
Cody was one of the absolute worst defenders in the league last year and was terrible defensively in college as well. The defensive improvement for the Jazz with Cody is that Cody is probably going to barely play this year.

Ace has tons of defensive upside, but is probably going to be bad defensively this year as he's 18 and was bad defensively in college. The Jazz have put bizarrely low expectations on Hendricks this year (saying they don't expect him to be 100% for the whole season) so we'll see with him.
 
Miggs said:
Cody will be better than Ace so far as winning basketball is concerned. Maybe Ace will score 19 a game on 19 shots and rebounds well but I think Cody will be the better overall player in 3-4 years.
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This is crazy talk.

Cody is more likely to be out of the NBA in 3-4 years.

He had one ok SUMMER LEAGUE game, followed by a good SUMMER LEAGUE game, followed by a horrible SUMMER LEAGUE game.

Last season he was one of the worst players I have ever seen. A mediocre summer league (when you were the 10th pick and had a year of NBA play under your belt) hasn't changed how I feel about Cody.

I saw things in the summer league that give me some hope but not much.
 
fishonjazz said:
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This is crazy talk.

Cody is more likely to be out of the NBA in 3-4 years.

He had one ok SUMMER LEAGUE game, followed by a good SUMMER LEAGUE game, followed by a horrible SUMMER LEAGUE game.

Last season he was one of the worst players I have ever seen. A mediocre summer league (when you were the 10th pick and had a year of NBA play under your belt) hasn't changed how I feel about Cody.

I saw things in the summer league that give me some hope but not much.
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that's as a second year player. and even in his good summer league game i think he had 0 rebounds.

either way, i agree - he's shown certain things that sorta give you a glimmer of hope of if you you're looking for it, but i'd like to see him step it up a bit in vegas.
 
I think the weird thing for me is when dudes want Jazz players to fail to make their predictions come true. I have been down on Brice since months before we drafted him but I want to be proven wrong on him so bad, because, wait for it.................I'm a fan of the team he plays on.
 
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