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Great thread. I must have watched this 50 times over the past 6 months, great edit and the tune is as smooth as DMs stroke.

 
Who would you rather have right now, prime D Will or Mitchell?

Would you rather have Boozer or Favors?
 
Thee jazz fan said:


Just another day at the office for John Stockton.
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That 2nd 3 would have been called a foul today. But in that time it was a regular thing that didn't get called. Imagine if Stockton and Hornacek had the 3 pt green light players are given today. We would have had a field day. Most of Stockton's 3s were like that, contested and usually only in a desperate situation, and he still shot 38% for his career. Imagine if we provided some spacing and made it part of the arsenal. Would have been a different animal that is for sure.
 
You know it is easy to forget the past. Stockton was an unbelievable ball player. I was perusing stats for fun and found these gems from the playoffs in the 80's:

87-88: Games - 11, PPG - 19.5, RPG - 4.1, APG - 14.8, Steals - 3.4, 50.7% FG, 82.4% FT, 43.5 MPG...his 3 pt percentage is the only crack in the foundation in this one, at 28.6%, but holy hell. We get excited when Hayward averaged 17 pts, 4 asst and 4 reb.

88-89: Games - 3 (small sample size but holy ****), 27.3 PPG, 3.3 RPG, 13.7 APG, 3.7 steals, 50.8% FG, 75% 3 pt, 90.5% FT, 46.3 MPG.

I mean really what planet was this guy from? Wasn't he an inflated 6'1"? He was white and slow, right? Son of a bitch it is easy to let time fade the memories but, wow, to read some of this was crazy. Definitely one of the GOAT, and definitely top 2 at his position all-time.
 
TheStormofWar said:
"Uh oh."

Still the greatest clutch shot in Jazz history. Second being Book's under hand scoop with 0.2 seconds left.

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Every time, EVERY TIME I watch this clip, I get tears in my eyes. I am taken back to my kitchen in Sandy in 1997, surrounded by my brothers. He hits that shot and I am running around the house like a ****ing maniac. Best moment in Jazz history, but I am feeling good that in the next 2 years we will have a better one.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Who would you rather have right now, prime D Will or Mitchell?

Would you rather have Boozer or Favors?
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prime DWill was beast and better than Mitchell now, but I'm still taking Mitchell for his ceiling.

Then as likable as Favors is Boozer was quite a bit better IMO. Dude had what 34 pts / 15 rebs in a game 7 win on the road? Also think prime Boozer's game would work really well today.
 
idestroyedthetoilet said:
Prime Boozer was better than prime Favors. He had 2 damn good seasons, and his defense was reasonably good too.
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No, his defense was not reasonably good. His man on man was not awful but he could not protect the rim and was 0 help on help defense.

Their stats are pretty comparable when Favors was 23 (net rating +11) and Boozer was 25(net rating +10). But Favors got hurt for the next 2 years and this year sacrificed his stats for the team.

Ironically Favors is the type of player that would dominate Boozer.
 
 
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