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If you could bring back any former Jazz player

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Peak Harpring would be pretty sweet on this team. He embodies who we are now and would add a little bit of everything, maybe even being able to play the stretch 4 well, as undersized as he might be for that role.

He wouldn’t be my first choice but he’d be up there and ahead of AK who I’d want nowhere near this club.
 
I would love to see Griffith on this team. In his prime he was stellar. Highly athletic, good defender, deep range, could generate his own shot but played well within the offense, smart player. We forget how good he was, and how good he could have been had he not had that major injury. After his injury he more or less became a 3 and D guy, but before, with the potential he had. Called Dr. Dunkenstein for a reason. Wow.

 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Yes... over the last 40 years humans and basketball have not evolved much... oh wait.
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I wasn't surprised to see a play we ran junior high the jazz ran it last night when they threw that half court pass to Favors and he brought the ball up for a sec and hit a guard on the opposite side - that play has been used to break full court pressess probably long before I was born. Still running it 50 years later, still a basket 10 feet of the ground and 5 guys dribbling it's not a completely different game if they running that saammmmeeee play

Did you ever play organized basketball at any level? If so you'd know what i'm talking bout
 
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rare144 said:
I wasn't surprised to see a play we ran in the junior the jazz ran it last night when they threw that half court pass to Favors and he brought the ball up for a sec and hit a guard on the opposite side - that play has been used to break full court pressess probably long before I was born. Still running it 50 years later, still a basket 10 feet of the ground and 5 guys dribbling it's not a completely different game if they running that saammmmeeee play

Did you ever play organized basketball at any level? If so you'd know what i'm talking bout
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GTFOH... I still play organized basketball and pickup ball several times a week. Just because some of the actions survive it doesn’t mean the game hasn’t changed significantly and that the humans aren’t on a completely different level.

You need to go down to your local blockbuster... rent some old finals videos throw them in the VCR and compare to what you are seeing now. I realize this will make you have to walk up hill both ways in the snow but it’s a worthwhile endevour.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
GTFOH... I still play organized basketball and pickup ball several times a week. Just because some of the actions survive it doesn’t mean the game hasn’t changed significantly and that the humans aren’t on a completely different level.

You need to go down to your local blockbuster... rent some old finals videos throw them in the VCR and compare to what you are seeing now. I realize this will make you have to walk up hill both ways in the snow but it’s a worthwhile endevour.
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And I'll see the same play ran in those tapes. Pull up paint and draw it - you can't. It's commonly ran.
 
rare144 said:
And I'll see the same play ran in those tapes. Pull up paint and draw it - you can't. It's commonly ran.
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Sweet... again not all the actions are irrelevant now but the game is very different from 40 years ago... doesn’t mean everything has changed... if you can’t see it then these words won’t help any.

Computers from 40 years ago had screens and processors... computers today have screens and processors... does not mean they are the same.
 
Yet same IT guys doing their thing, principles behind the tech rarely change.
 
rare144 said:
Yet same IT guys doing their thing, principles behind the tech rarely change.
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Well I can't help you man... you aren't making arguments. The computers is what i was talking about.. they have clearly gotten better and more powerful... as have NBA players.

I saw DM take a jumpshot and do a spin move last night... those are both things Oscar Robertson did... see game hasn't changed. Sounds like some Charles Barkley back in my day ****.
 
rare144 said:
Who would it be?

1) who is currently in the league
2) any from the past, excluding Stockton & Malone
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Prime DWIll or prime, engaged AK. AK would be the perfect stretch 4 in todays game. We would even play him at the 5 against small lineups. And could guard guys like Durant
 
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