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I told yall...Hood is a beast and a steal at #23.

blackham9258 said:
You know all season I watched tons of college ball and hoped simultaneously that the GSW's would slip into the lottery. I was on the ultimate tank watch all season both for our pick and for the GSW pick.

When hoping for GSW I hoped all season that they would somehow land at #14 and that somehow Hood could fall to #14. If you remember all season long Hood was between 7-12. Then at the end of the year when it looked like GSW was going to make the playoffs I started focusing on players to stash or hoping that TJ Warren would fall.

Then came draft night and when the pick hit #15 I was watching with my boys at a Buffalo Wild Wings and I kept telling them.... Hopefully Hood will drop. As the picks kept falling and his name wasn't called we were like chanting... don't take Hood, don't take Hood and then when it came to our pick we were freaking out and I literally said, 'They had better take Hood, if they don't take Hood I am going to Fire Lindsay." Then his name was called and I was so happy. I was so excited. The two players (after Embiid went down) that i wanted in the draft.

Love him... I just love his all around game. He has the free throw line curl jumper that Harp and Korver used to have for us. Watch that come back this year with Q.

So stoked. This is going to be a fun 4 years.
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Cool story bro
 
I think coming into the draft everyone know Hood could shoot and score off the dribble on jumpers. He has looked very good running the Pick and Roll. Also he has been a ball mover-he gets the ball and makes a good decision right away. The concerns on him are still valid-can he finish at the rim/draw fouls? Will he ever progress from being a poor rebounder and defender?

He is a valuable player but let's make him out to be more than he is.
 
Qman said:
I think coming into the draft everyone know Hood could shoot and score off the dribble on jumpers. He has looked very good running the Pick and Roll. Also he has been a ball mover-he gets the ball and makes a good decision right away. The concerns on him are still valid-can he finish at the rim/draw fouls? Will he ever progress from being a poor rebounder and defender?

He is a valuable player but let's make him out to be more than he is.
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He looks like a good rebounder to me so far.

He has drawn 2 "and 1's".

He is giving effort on defense. His weak frame and short arms are going to limit him (the post defense on one of the 1st plays by Giannis).
 
Core4 said:
Nope, only yamers. Just like ncjazz has been right about every Jazz first round pick of the modern era.

Before Lindsey is fired for not getting an extra 2nd rounder in the Novak trade, I want to thank him for drafting Gobert, Hood and Exum. And everyone please remember just WHY we had that #23 pick
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Gobert, Hood, and Exum all great picks. I haven't quite forgotten though that he moved up to get Burke (and please don't try to blame this on Corbin) when we could have had Giannis at 14 and saved the 3m it cost for the Gobert pick.
 
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Hood and Kawhi have similar games. Hood is coming into the league with a better shot. Kawhi was a better defender entering the league. Hopefully we can craft he and Exum into players. The Spurs draft good players and mold them into GREAT players. We have good players on our hands. It will be fun to watch them grow!
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Actually, no they do not have similar games at all.
We don't have to compare people that are not similar at all do we?

Am I missing some point you were trying to make?
 
Qman said:
I think coming into the draft everyone know Hood could shoot and score off the dribble on jumpers. He has looked very good running the Pick and Roll. Also he has been a ball mover-he gets the ball and makes a good decision right away. The concerns on him are still valid-can he finish at the rim/draw fouls? Will he ever progress from being a poor rebounder and defender?

He is a valuable player but let's make him out to be more than he is.
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I've heard and seen nothing but the opposite. Was this really a criticism coming into draft day?
 
franklin said:
I've heard and seen nothing but the opposite. Was this really a criticism coming into draft day?
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Only negatives i remember of hood pre draft were his poor defense and that he is soft
 
Really like Hood as a player and person. Seems in interviews to have a lot of self awareness... Talks about his role is to knock down shots when Dante and others set him up. I'm not sure why some posters think hood being a good player means we didn't need to resign Hayward. I think Hayward will be one of the few guys we have that can set Hood up. If the ball moves as well as it should everyone gets better looks and percentages rise across the board.
 
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