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Davis is a sexy pick for the Jazz because of the potential and surprise factor, but please don't pass on Udoh if he is still on the board.
 
VINYLONE said:
Yeah, that article is mind blowing. Most of our players are ****ing undersized. KOC is speaking garbage. The lakers decided to take their team in the direction of being bigger rather than quicker than everyone else...and it basketball that works.
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Well the Lakers didnt just have taller players. Their players also had a good bit of quickness and athleticism to go along with the skills. You dont get players like that without some luck and without the league helping you get them. Gasol, and Bynum when healthy, have an optimum mix of length, quickness and skills. A GM's dream.
 
vj_74 said:
Well the Lakers didnt just have taller players. Their players also had a good bit of quickness and athleticism to go along with the skills. You dont get players like that without some luck and without the league helping you get them. Gasol, and Bynum when healthy, have an optimum mix of length, quickness and skills. A GM's dream.
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Which is why I'd love to see the Jazz have Tomic and Whiteside up front. That would make life much easier on D.Will and everyone else.
 
The Jazz supposedly wanted to bring back Whiteside for another workout, which could mean nothing. I'd bet the Jazz are taking a serious look at him, just based on potential alone.
 
David Stern said:
The Jazz supposedly wanted to bring back Whiteside for another workout, which could mean nothing. I'd bet the Jazz are taking a serious look at him, just based on potential alone.
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Or maybe because he was so bad and decided to quit early (because of the thin air) the Jazz wanted to see if there was actually something ailing him. When he decided he didn't want to come back he made it clear how much he cares about possible being drafted this high.
 
bat said:
Or maybe because he was so bad and decided to quit early (because of the thin air) the Jazz wanted to see if there was actually something ailing him. When he decided he didn't want to come back he made it clear how much he cares about possible being drafted this high.
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I think you're reading too much into this.
 
VINYLONE said:
Not off topic at all.

I think it's definitely plausible. That said, I think most of the players are a known quantity for the most part. I mean, they are so thoroughly dissected, both physically and mentally, there really isn't much else to discover...until they get into the game and then all bets are off. I don't know how much teams share with each other, but I'm sure it's a lot.

I think it's hard to predict who is or is not going to be a bust because in the end the teams are dealing with human beings who are, if anything, completely dynamic.
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I think so, too. It'd be pretty careless if they hadn't done most of their homework by now. Even the Jazz officials say, time and again, that these workouts are merely to gain a little more information than they already had.

I also like your description of judging players and their potential to be NBA studs or busts. You could have all the best information but could never guess that the player you pick eventually gets in a wreck (Hurley) or gets hurt during training camp (Oden) or in October. Even the toughest and best athletes can get hurt (see Michael Jordan: Luckily for them it turned out OK.). However, no matter how you judge, I do think you still go for the BPA. I'd rather have to deal with making room for Jordan, alongside Drexler, then pick Bowie to fill a need. The Jazz need to take a lesson from that. Sometimes they say they went with the BPA but instead it seems like they went with the safest pick available. I hope they take a chance this time and go for someone with "unlimited potential" as this article says:

https://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/bowie.html
 
P.S.

I wonder what their media room looks like?

In the past, I'm sure it was crazy: Tapes and then DVDs everywhere!! However, today, all they'd have to do initially is record the game onto a digital source (digital broadcast, camcorder, etc). If it's analog, then record to a digital source (DVD or Blu-Ray, for example) and then they would have the option to further condense the footage down, using a modern encoder format (H.264/MPEG-4/x.264), to save space, and keep all their footage on a media server. They could then place the media server on their network and then anyone could access it from any networked computer/media device.

In addition, if they're really trying to be mobile, they could allow Internet streaming. This would make the most sense because then any field employee, with proper credentials, could access their private media server whenever they needed to. No more carrying folders of DVDs or bags of hard drives. ;)
 
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David Stern said:
I think you're reading too much into this.
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I agree. However I do find it strange that if a guy had such a terrible work out for a team that appears to be right at about the top of his draft range, why he would turn down an opportunity to go back to have a better work out.

Either his agent didn't hear good things from the Jazz FO, or Whiteside just doesn't have much interest in being here.
 
Chad Ford 6.0

1. Wall
2. Turner
3. Favors
4. Johnson
5. Cousins
6. Monroe
7. Davis
8. Aminu
9. Babbit
10. Udoh
11. Hayward
12. George
13. Patterson
14. Aldrich
 
Just say no to Babbitt. We already have endured five years of poor-defending starting PF and C; the Jazz don't need to blow their second top 10 pick in as many years on another poor defender. I don't care if he can shoot 40% from Temple Square to the ESA. If he can't defend, no darft.
 
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