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If you could bring back any former Jazz player

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framer said:
Fairly certain AK wouldn't have been fond of the 3 hour practices. He couldn't really stretch the floor either. Gobert's rim protection makes him kind of redundant. Give me prime Memo or Deron and we are in business.
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I don't understand the logic of Gobert's rim protection makes him redundant. That's seems to be like saying Curry's 3 point shooting makes Klay's 3 point shooting redundant, no?
 
checkbookdoc said:
I am shocked at the lack of two obvious players:

1) Gordon Hayward
2) Hornacek

Gordon would take the team to another level, and Hornacek would kill it in this offense!
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Never heard of the first guy. The second guy has already been mentioned several times so I'm not sure what's shocking you.
 
Tom Pitt said:
I don't understand the logic of Gobert's rim protection makes him redundant. That's seems to be like saying Curry's 3 point shooting makes Klay's 3 point shooting redundant, no?
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And it's not like Gobert is better shot blocker than AK... love Rudy but his block % at best year was 6% when AK had whooping 8.5% in his best season. AK was one of the kind - I mean one of the best shot blockers in NBA history. How is that not an asset? Especially when he can do all his damage on the perimeter and outside the paint as well.
 
MVP said:
And it's not like Gobert is better shot blocker than AK... love Rudy but his block % at best year was 6% when AK had whooping 8.5% in his best season. AK was one of the kind - I mean one of the best shot blockers in NBA history. How is that not an asset? Especially when he can do all his damage on the perimeter and outside the paint as well.
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Rudy is ABSOLUTELY one of the best shot blockers in the NBA, to the point where people don't often challenge the paint. Nobody passed up a shot with AK, he would often get them by surprising them from the weak side. The point of the Jazz D is to filter to Rudy and protect the perimeter. We don't need AK leaving his man in the corner for a weakside swat.

AK isn't doing much damage from outside. Prime DWill was great from long, great on the drive, and could defend the hell out of guards like CP3. He would look amazing next to Spida.


AK would be the 3rd star at best on this team. We all know how he handled that. I say this knowing that AK was my favorite player for years.
 
framer said:
Rudy is ABSOLUTELY one of the best shot blockers in the NBA, to the point where people don't often challenge the paint. Nobody passed up a shot with AK, he would often get them by surprising them from the weak side. The point of the Jazz D is to filter to Rudy and protect the perimeter. We don't need AK leaving his man in the corner for a weakside swat.

AK isn't doing much damage from outside. Prime DWill was great from long, great on the drive, and could defend the hell out of guards like CP3. He would look amazing next to Spida.


AK would be the 3rd star at best on this team. We all know how he handled that. I say this knowing that AK was my favorite player for years.
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Rudy is selective in when he goes for blocks too... he understands if he sells out and misses it’s a dunk. I’m consistently amazed at how he challenges and still gets back for the rebound... even when he goes out to the perimeter... I’m beginning to think there are too many that truly don’t understand how friggin great Rudy is... sad.
 
Money Memo.

From 2006-2012 he was one of the most dynamic offensive bigs in the league. And that was when people still posted up and before the league discovered the 3 point shot.
 
framer said:
Rudy is ABSOLUTELY one of the best shot blockers in the NBA, to the point where people don't often challenge the paint. Nobody passed up a shot with AK, he would often get them by surprising them from the weak side.
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That's not true. AK would disrupt other teams offense like no other, teams would change their whole game plan because of that. He was blocking shots on perimeter, mid range, paint you name it. You probably did not watch games when he would block Carmelo, Pierce or Kobe's jumpers 2-3 times in a row and they would stop shooting jumpers with him around trying to drive or pump fake or just pass out. Rudy has benefits of being 7'2 with 7'6 wingspan and sitting in the paint and still as I said his shot blocking % at best year was 2.5% less then AK. If we talking pure shot blocking skill ( ignoring position and physical parameters) AK was the best shot blocker Jazz ever had.
 
MVP said:
. If we talking pure shot blocking skill ( ignoring position and physical parameters) AK was the best shot blocker Jazz ever had.
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That isn't the way it works now isn't it? People entered the paint all of the time against those Jazz teams. Look, I'm not saying AK wouldn't be great to have in place of a Thabo. But are you going to start him over Jingles, based on how this team is built? Is the better defense (Jingles is no slouch himself) better than the deep threat Ingles brings? I'd easily replace Rubio with Prime DWill and not look back for a second. And we would be championship contenders. Sometime Best outweighs better.
 
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