Jazz select Grayson Allen at 21

[zyzz]

Grayson 'Thiccpaddedhands' Allen has the same hand width as JJJ



Future Summer League legend Isaac "Double Double-A" Haas (that double-entendre) had the biggest hands at the combine. Half an inch wider than JJJ!

 

[Archie Moses]

So just punt and don’t gamble at all... and trade the basketball asset for cash... that really doesn’t help the basketball side at all... but I’m sure it’s reinvested in the program since we are always spending big and buying up assets.

I mean that’s how GSW built their dynasty... and SA too they just gave those picks away for cash because the chances you hit are 5%-10%, so why bother. Smart management... jump way the hell over those dollars to grab at a few pennies.

I try and give a compliment to the Jazz and you get this out of it. Lol

 

[turmoka]

Would be nice if Allen can become Dallas pre-inj Seth Curry (12.8 pts on 48/42/85) for us within 2 years.

 

[LoPo]

I think it's possible that Grayson starts next to Donovan down the road. The kid has all the offensive tools to be a starter and I have faith in the work the coaching staff can do on his defense. If we ever got elite talent at SF or PF, he would seem to compliment everything so well.

In the meantime, I fully expect him to be an improvement over Burks and maybe even Hood for this upcoming season.

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[karl malone]

Another reason I'm on board with this pick is that it adds to our collection of frustrating guys to play against. Teams already disliked facing us, adding Allen only increases that. Soft/mentally weak teams are going to fold. Especially over the span of a 7 game series.

 

[JFFR]

I think it's possible that Grayson starts next to Donovan down the road. The kid has all the offensive tools to be a starter and I have faith in the work the coaching staff can do on his defense. If we ever got elite talent at SF or PF, he would seem to compliment everything so well.

In the meantime, I fully expect him to be an improvement over Burks and maybe even Hood for this upcoming season.

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Starts where? At the 3, over Ingles? Over Rubio?

I just don't see it happening. He's not even taking over Royce's spot when Rubio is out...

 

[fishonjazz]

Starts where? At the 3, over Ingles? Over Rubio?

I just don't see it happening. He's not even taking over Royce's spot when Rubio is out...

Rubio is only under contract for one more year.

 

[MDAV28]

Rubio is only under contract for one more year.

Highly doubt Jazz let Rubio walk unless they can sign a star to a max next offseason. He has been revitalized and looks like a top PG towards the end of the season and his run in the playoffs.

 

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[Jack Strop]

I think it's possible that Grayson starts next to Donovan down the road. The kid has all the offensive tools to be a starter and I have faith in the work the coaching staff can do on his defense. If we ever got elite talent at SF or PF, he would seem to compliment everything so well.

In the meantime, I fully expect him to be an improvement over Burks and maybe even Hood for this upcoming season.

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The bar has been set extremely low. But I hear Lindsey replaced the balance test with the bathroom test. If a prospect has to use the toilet more than once during the workout, he's ****-canned, so to speak.

 

[Jack Strop]

Highly doubt Jazz let Rubio walk unless they can sign a star to a max next offseason. He has been revitalized and looks like a top PG towards the end of the season and his run in the playoffs.

Quin likes him, Donovan likes him. He plays very good defense. Rubio loves Quin and the team. He's coming back. Book it.

 

[Game6Conley]

Allen has a great athletic grade, strong hands, he might act like a punk sometimes but he's certainly not a pushover.

My issues with him always were more in the area of tendencies, he's got 'raw talent', I think he's got some bad habits or played with them at duke for years. It's fair to say that he hogged the ball, or was asked to hog the ball by coach k too much. Overdribbles for sure. He's not really a combo guard, he's got a good 1st step and he's got this in-and-out cp3 dribble u see and then the step back, he can get into the lane too.

To be blunt, i HATE his shot selection. I dislike the way he'd recklessly drive towards the basket, he'd do things that make me say "this works in college, in the NBA u get blocked to smithereens".. Who knows though maybe he can draw a bunch of fouls, he'll be implemented in a role player capacity, so the scaling down of his game could do wonders for stuff like this. Utah's system will ask him to do make fairly basic reads he won't have too much leeway to freelance and get himself into trouble.

He can make tough shots for sure but sometimes he'd like take wild step-backs and just kinda like what I would call hero or kobe ball.. He does have a good game sense though, he's got some ice running thru his veins..

Duke was also abysmal in man-to-man defense. Ask anyone who knows. Their zone was the only thing that saved them from a **** season and many of their players suffered from the imbalance. TREVON DUVAL GOES UNDRAFTED.....

Now it just recently became news that NBA teams loved Boston College's Jerome Robinson who went in the lottery before Michael Porter Jr!!! But if you look back at some of those BC v Duke matchups, Grayson can't check Jerome Robinson at-all, but now that he's lotto material it kinda makes a bit more sense................ Back when I was watching that live and Robinson was getting no respect, I had a feeling, ya know, the consensus was wrong..

and this also applies to Georgia Tech's Josh Okogie who went a pick earlier than Grayson (though Okogie doesn't have tricks up his sleeve like Robinson).