JimLes
Well-Known Member
We need a thread to fawn over him after he was once again dismissed by a section of our fan base as washed.
I could wax poetic over his passing, shooting, his pick and roll, trash-talking. I'll just get this rolling with this.
Joe Ingles was first eligible for the draft in 2007. He was last eligible in 2009, when he wasn't taken and automatically became a free agent in NBA terms. In other words, no team held his rights.
Now, here are the players the Jazz selected in those 3 drafts, with their overall spots.
2007
25 - Morris Almond
55 - Herbert Hill
2008
23 - Kosta Koufos
44 - Ante Tomić
53 - Tadija Dragičević
2009
20 - Eric Maynor
50 - Goran Suton
This Hill guy was swapped for Fesenko on draft night, so we should really consider Fes a Jazz pick.
Not one of these players is in the NBA right now, nor were any of them in the league last season. I think Koufos might be the only one to have played an NBA game in the past decade of the bunch. 3 of the players were overseas players(Suton and Koufos played international basketball for Bosnia and Greece, but they went to college here).
Now, imagine the Jazz take Joe in 2007 and bring him here right away. Australian league pays peanuts compared to Europe, so the buyout wouldn't been small. What's his ceiling? Manu? Larry Bird? How good might he have been if he played against NBA talent from the age of 20? Eh, at least we drafted Tomić so we could talk about him every off season, right?
I could wax poetic over his passing, shooting, his pick and roll, trash-talking. I'll just get this rolling with this.
Joe Ingles was first eligible for the draft in 2007. He was last eligible in 2009, when he wasn't taken and automatically became a free agent in NBA terms. In other words, no team held his rights.
Now, here are the players the Jazz selected in those 3 drafts, with their overall spots.
2007
25 - Morris Almond
55 - Herbert Hill
2008
23 - Kosta Koufos
44 - Ante Tomić
53 - Tadija Dragičević
2009
20 - Eric Maynor
50 - Goran Suton
This Hill guy was swapped for Fesenko on draft night, so we should really consider Fes a Jazz pick.
Not one of these players is in the NBA right now, nor were any of them in the league last season. I think Koufos might be the only one to have played an NBA game in the past decade of the bunch. 3 of the players were overseas players(Suton and Koufos played international basketball for Bosnia and Greece, but they went to college here).
Now, imagine the Jazz take Joe in 2007 and bring him here right away. Australian league pays peanuts compared to Europe, so the buyout wouldn't been small. What's his ceiling? Manu? Larry Bird? How good might he have been if he played against NBA talent from the age of 20? Eh, at least we drafted Tomić so we could talk about him every off season, right?
