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Jazz draft Taylor Hendricks at 9

I agree, Lauri was much more offensively polished even before college, coming from Europe. If Hendricks ever gets to that level of offensive play, he will be a superstar in the league.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Please stop trying to comp this dude to Lauri.

Hendricks might be what people thought Lauri was prior to him actually be used properly, but Hendricks doesn't have that kind of ability and should probably be used the way Lauri was used on a team like the Cavs.
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Good to see you making the comp to Lauri as well.
 
What if we compared Hendricks to Favors with a 3 point shot? Jazz D with Gobert and Favors was amazing. Much more upside on offense with Kessler and Hendicks.
 
stitches said:
I agree, Lauri was much more offensively polished even before college, coming from Europe. If Hendricks ever gets to that level of offensive play, he will be a superstar in the league.
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Lauri might become a new trendy player that draws a lot of comparisons. It was Draymond, Mitchell etc. before. Seems like a lot of the combo guards this year were compared to Shai. Everyone likes to make a comparison to the new star.

While I understand why that comparison is made....Lauri is so unique, especially his offense. Is there really anyone in the NBA that compares to him? If you could combine the strengths of MPJ and John Collins you have Lauri, but truthfully he's one of a kind and I think it's dangerous to make a comparison to a one of a kind player.
 
Who’s the best comp in the league for someone who makes a ton of threes and dunks it a ton? Lauri is the poster boy for that. There was some metrics done with Hendricks’ college stats and Lauri was the the top of the list. I don’t think anybody is saying Hendricks will become what Lauri has but as prospects entering the league they are extremely similar in many ways.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Who’s the best comp in the league for someone who makes a ton of threes and dunks it a ton? Lauri is the poster boy for that. There was some metrics done with Hendricks’ college stats and Lauri was the the top of the list. I don’t think anybody is saying Hendricks will become what Lauri has but as prospects entering the league they are extremely similar in many ways.
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and prior to this past season, one of the main knocks on lauri were his lack of skills with the ball/shot creation skills - which is what everybody seems to criticize hendricks for.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
and prior to this past season, one of the main knocks on lauri were his lack of skills with the ball/shot creation skills - which is what everybody seems to criticize hendricks for.
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Lauri showed it in college and first two years in the league till his idiot coach got in the way. Even then, when he got the touches he showed the skill and ability and put up numbers. Hendricks never has. Dunks and threes is only similarity.
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
. Dunks and threes is only similarity.
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Nope. Attempts per game, percentages, rebounds per game, assists per game, points per game.. In addition to the similarity of how they get those points (dunks and threes) So so so many similarities. Almost identical stats offensively. Defensively there are less similarities as Hendricks clearly has Lauri beat on that end.
Also Hendricks has shown the ability to put up numbers. He averaged more points per game and rebounds per game than everyone taken after of him and around him in the draft.
It's like you have dementia.
 
I think the draft long term will be judged by the George pick more than the Hendricks pick. The Pacers for me got the best player in our range and they were happy with him in Wallace. Trading up clearly wasn't going to happen with the Pacers because they didn't want us to draft their guy.

There were only two trades in the lottery. OKC to get Cason Wallace so Orlando couldn't grab another guard (odd) and Washington moving to 7 from 8 to stop someone else from grabbing Bilal (also kind of odd since the Pacers weren't going to grab Bilal in the first place.

So, it looks like trading up was expensive.
 
Essentially, we will be chatting about grabbing George vs Jalen Hood Schofino / Cam Whitmore / Podz / Dariq Whitehead for a long time. For me, I prefer the high reward gamble of drafting Whitmore, but I don't have to travel, eat, sit on the bench, and play with the guy and if he was that bad...

There will always be someone that looks good somewhere in the draft after George, but unless they were drafted somewhere in the next 4 - 6 spots, they would have felt like a reach. Cam will not have felt like a reach so there is the defining moment for the draft and it will be on this board for a LONG time.
 
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