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Jazz draft Brice Sensabaugh at 28

It’s a buzzkill because his health can only be proven overtime, but as others have said, if he fell to 28 being that productive it must be pretty bad.
 
Coach Ellis said:
I’m not worried about the weight, just his health. His knees have been an issue since high school. If he can overcome that, then I think he’ll have a chance to be pretty good. If not, well. . . as much as I like the kid, I would’ve drafted somebody else instead because of the injury issue. I’d rather be proven wrong.
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Weight is very much part of the health of his knees
 
Maybe Jazz can limit his minutes and games
Maybe if he only plays 20 minutes per game and 60 games Jazz can keep him healthy
 
For him it strictly comes down to health. He already has an elite nba skillset which is shooting the ball from everywhere. He has as clean and consistent of a shooting stroke as you will ever see. In the nba I think he is probably best off longterm limiting his game to more a spot up shot to limit the wear and tear on his legs. He can be an elite spot up shooter that gets 20 minutes a game and has a decent length nba career. He is capable of being far more than a spot up shooter but I think the bigger the role you give him the sooner his legs will breakdown. The question then comes down to if you want a far more impactful player for 4 years and then possibly done or a solid specialist guy that can be a consistent contributor for 10 years.
 
Coach Ellis said:
I’m not worried about the weight, just his health. His knees have been an issue since high school. If he can overcome that, then I think he’ll have a chance to be pretty good. If not, well. . . as much as I like the kid, I would’ve drafted somebody else instead because of the injury issue. I’d rather be proven wrong.
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Weight and health are deeply correlated and demonstrably causative. Furthermore, weight/health rely a lot on him being able to use his legs. Meniscus injuries are the most chronic you will find, especially if his interventions have been to just keep scooping out damaged tissue because that tissue doesn’t really recover.

Anyone who isn’t freaked out by the information we already have access to better just be taking the position of “Meh, it’s a worthy swing at 28 that has strong odds of missing.”

I think there were a lot of good talents on the board and another swing that has a better NBA body by orders of magnitude that I would’ve easily taken over him.

TLDR; I think drafting a dude anywhere in the first round who by all indications is gonna be bone on bone if he isn’t already is a bad bet.
 
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str8line said:
I didn't really pay attention to the draft so my green opinion after watching some highlight vids is Brice is a badass and Keyonte is kind of meh. Keyonte's body seems small for the NBA.
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Well I was wrong about Keyonte but hopefully end up being right about Brice.
 
Brice was cooking on offense and had 8 assists no spastic passing but solid passing. You have to do two things well to stick in the NBA and it could be ISO scoring and passing. And his weakness will be defense.
 
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