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If Jazz draft Kanter, then hire Karl Malone

Kyoto said:
When Karl wrestled in the WCW in the late 90's he wrestled with 'Diamond Dallas Page' (DDP) as his tag-team partner. The 'diamond cutter' was DDP's signature move that he, and eventually Karl used on Dennis Rodman and Hulk Hogan.
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Thanks hope Karl got his licks in on Rodman
 
Karl definitely needs to teach the diamond cutter to kanter I saw an interview in which he said he wanted to be a professional wrestler after his NBA career is over.
 
I loves me my diamond cutter.

I think the Jazz wouldn't be against Malone as a coach, but I'm of the opinion that they already talked to him and said they're not planning on hiring him or talking officially with him until the lockout is over because then he couldn't work with the players during the lockout. I believe in that conversation, they gave him Favors' agent's number *wink wink* as well.
 
I haven't really been on this bandwagon ever since this idea came up after Karl started doing his hilarious interviews with the media. I just assumed his lack of communication skills would be a problem. I've changed that view point, I do think its a very low risk move that could work out. Bring him in and see how he does, what the hell? Besides, with him on staff we'll get to listen to more interviews. I see that as a net gain.
 
Why do people think that being a great player and being big and strong will translate into being a great coach? One has very little to do with the other.
 
The Jazz should have had Malone on the payroll for years. I would seriously send Jefferson, Favors and Kanter (if drafted) down to Malone for the summer and tell Karl to "have at 'em".

My buddy served a mission in Louisiana in 96. It happened to be where Karl's offseason home was at the time and he got to meet him right after Karl returned from the Atlanta Olympics.

He said if you were awake at 4am, you'd see Karl down at the local High School track running Ike Austin nearly to death. He said you'd literally see Karl training through the whole damn day. Say what you want about the guy, NOBODY worked like he did.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
Why do people think that being a great player and being big and strong will translate into being a great coach? One has very little to do with the other.
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This.

I think with Karl's mindset he could have coached in the NBA 25 years ago, but not today. When modern day NBA players saw what Coach Malone was expecting from the conditioning-wise, etc. you would have ZERO chance at signing any free agents and his players would likely mutiny his ***.
 
The Thriller said:
What sense is Jimmer one dimensional?

Offensively, he might be the most versatile PG the NCAA has seen in years. Long ball game, FT shooting, coming off screens, creating off the dribble, set shot, post up, floaters, and layups are all there. The NBA's MVP didn't have anything close to the game Jimmer had offensively. Drose has 3 moves. Drive and dunk. Drive and contort body to get a layup. Drive and hope to get fouled.

As far as defense? *gasp* his man to man defense wasn't lock down! Oh noooo!

It's not like Dwill, CP3, Tony Parker, and Mike Bibby are all lockdown defenders.

Same things were said about Memo. Being one dimensional. Sure, we all wish he was Dwight defensively. But offensively, was there a more versatile big man (other than Dirk) than Memo in that 2005-2009 era?

Memo and Jimmer were/are anything but one dimensional players (offensively).
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+1
 
The Thriller said:
What sense is Jimmer one dimensional?

Offensively, he might be the most versatile PG the NCAA has seen in years. Long ball game, FT shooting, coming off screens, creating off the dribble, set shot, post up, floaters, and layups are all there. The NBA's MVP didn't have anything close to the game Jimmer had offensively. Drose has 3 moves. Drive and dunk. Drive and contort body to get a layup. Drive and hope to get fouled.
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I don't see Jimmer getting to the lane very effectively in the NBA. IMO, he'll mostly be a spot up shooter and come off some screens. I'd much rather have the guy that can take it all the way to the rack and dunk/get fouled consistently.

Rose averaged 25 points and 7.7 assists this year...Jimmer doesn't have an offensive game to get him anywhere near that in the NBA. Comparing him to Rose is laughable.
 
JohnStockalypse said:
I don't see Jimmer getting to the lane very effectively in the NBA. IMO, he'll mostly be a spot up shooter and come off some screens. I'd much rather have the guy that can take it all the way to the rack and dunk/get fouled consistently.
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I think he will be a good option off of the bench offensively no matter what team he ends up with. I think the real question is whether the guy can play a lick of defense. Pro Jimmer people will say that he was asked to use his energy on the offensive side at BYU. While the people who aren't fond of him will question whether he will be able to even be decent on the defensive side. I don't know who will be right.
 
trigg3r said:
I think he will be a good option off of the bench offensively no matter what team he ends up with. I think the real question is whether the guy can play a lick of defense. Pro Jimmer people will say that he was asked to use his energy on the offensive side at BYU. While the people who aren't fond of him will question whether he will be able to even be decent on the defensive side. I don't know who will be right.
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Well I don't want a shooter off the bench in the lottery...
 
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