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Lyles is the pick at 12

Xsy said:
The overall reaction to this pick is why I hate Jazz forums.
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Yes, it's overboard. DL is the same guy who picked Rudy Gobert at #27.

There are probably 4 or 5 potential star players in this draft and they all went top 5. If we wanted one of them we would have had to swap out an existing core piece.

Lyles can be a good player.
 
BTW, the more I watch of him the more I like his shooting stroke. It looks pretty good, I don't know why his jump shooting %s were so bad.
 
Lyles is several months younger than Exum. Give him 2 years to really start showing what he can be. I don't think he's ever bothered to work out that much. The natural ability is legit.
 
I think if the Jazz didn't pick Lyles, they might actually have picked Dekker ahead of Booker, but that's just a hunch.
 
stitches said:
BTW, the more I watch of him the more I like his shooting stroke. It looks pretty good, I don't know why his jump shooting %s were so bad.
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This.
I was just watching the video posted by pgab and his stroke is great looking.
 
Catchall said:
Yes, it's overboard. DL is the same guy who picked Rudy Gobert at #27.

There are probably 4 or 5 potential star players in this draft and they all went top 5. If we wanted one of them we would have had to swap out an existing core piece.

Lyles can be a good player.
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Same guy who moved up to get Trey Burke
 
Guys we could compare Lyles to potentially based on size and talent level (give or take)....

- Boris Diaw
- Juwan Howard
- David Lee
- Carlos Boozer
- Greg Monroe

He should be a solid rotation player. He's a guy who could potentially get offered a $50 million contract after his rookie deal.

He might turn out to be better than all those guys.
 
Mission Accomplished said:
Same guy who moved up to get Trey Burke
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Yeah, and most of us were extremely happy when that happened. He picked a need instead of BPA, and it failed. This time he picked a BPA over need. How about we wait and see what happens before we go about killing ourselves?

If anything, the Trey Burke pick just goes to show that we don't know **** until the player actually gets on the court and plays.

Edit: Ew, this was my 1,000th post. Yelling at dumb Jazz fans who over react to stupid things.
 
fishonjazz said:
This.
I was just watching the video posted by pgab and his stroke is great looking.
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I wonder if it had anything to do with playing the three and just generally shooting from places he had less practice from.

Sorry about misremembering Booker's wingspan - I think the bigger concern would probably be that compared to Klay he showed very little of anything besides spot up shooting.
 
mhindy said:
I wonder if it had anything to do with playing the three and just generally shooting from places he had less practice from.

Sorry about misremembering Booker's wingspan - I think the bigger concern would probably be that compared to Klay he showed very little of anything besides spot up shooting.
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For some reason he's a better shooter off the bounce. I think somebody posted numbers saying he shot 45% off the bounce while he was one of the worst shooters on catch and shoot shots. It's weird... it usually is the other way around.
 
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