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Rather have him than Gaines (I think). He seemed like a bit of a prima donna with chucker tendencies if i remember right, so I don't know. But hey, it's something.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Rather have him than Gaines (I think). He seemed like a bit of a prima donna with chucker tendencies if i remember right, so I don't know. But hey, it's something.
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He is exactly what you said. But he is good at the pick and roll and is a good catch and shoot player. Good 3 point shooter (in comparison to the rest of our team).
 
Bronco70 said:
We should look into trading for Eric Maynor. I hear that kid's pretty good.
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Eric Maynor's legacy didn't start to take off until after we traded him. Before we traded him he was a chucker that shot a low percentage from the field and was a liability defensively.
 
Is that sarcasm, Honz? Maynor was playing pretty darn good, IMO, when we unfortunately traded him. The only poor performance I remember was when he got schooled by Ty Lawson, but I think a lot of that had to do with his inexperience.
 
honz said:
Eric Maynor's legacy didn't start to take off until after we traded him. Before we traded him he was a chucker that shot a low percentage from the field and was a liability defensively.
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That's not the point, slugger. The point is that he finally gave the Jazz another player besides Deron who could actually create shots, and was a freakishly athletic player on a team that needs athleticism, and was young and mature, and was so impressive in certain facets of his game that he'd even earned a little bit of trust from Sloan. The complaints you list are common of many rookies. Most rookie guards are mediocre-to-poor defenders, so that's a moot point. Anyway, I still think the trade had to be made - a team like Utah can't give up the chance to save $10 million when all it needs to give up is a backup PG - it's just unfortunate that the team had to part with one of its most promising young players in years. I mean, take a look at Utah's first round picks the last decade - in 26 games, Maynor was already better than most of them.
 
I loved the Maynor pick when we drafted him and liked him as a player on the Jazz, but he definitely "got better" once we traded him.
 
About time. Hasn't it been a couple of months since he expressed his deepest heartfelt desire, sincere or not, to play on the Jazz? I still point to that one stat popping year he had. It doesn't matter that he is not that player anymore, he still has to have some of that putting the ball in the hoop in him. Just enough to provide of us with a spark for a handful of minutes at a time.
 
honz said:
I loved the Maynor pick when we drafted him and liked him as a player on the Jazz, but he definitely "got better" once we traded him.
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Although I agree that the Jazz did what they had to do, it would have been nice to be able hold onto Maynor. No, he wasn't tearing the league up as a rookie, playing behind one of the league's best PGs, and scratching for PT with Price, but for the burn he got, he showed an awful lot of upside. I don't think we're going to see someone nearly as good in that spot for quite some time.

Oh, this is a Mike James thread... sorry.
 
honz said:
I loved the Maynor pick when we drafted him and liked him as a player on the Jazz, but he definitely "got better" once we traded him.
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May be so but I remembered him having a huge game against the Cavs while playing for us.. something like 22 pts..
 
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