Potential Draft Pick

[franklin]

Hate to put a damper on your fun but saying we should draft a guy after watching one game is premature.

Hate to put a damper on your day, but reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. Homeytennis' very first word was POTENTIAL, now please go look it up. Those who care about this sort of thing appreciate the heads up. So please STFU next time you have nothing to add but feel the urge to pound keyboard anyway.

 

[franklin]

Do the Jazz even have a first round pick? Some say no, but according to this site, the only pick we're giving up this season is Memphis' pick that we sent to Minny. Don't we still have our own then?



https://www.hoopsworld.com/DraftPickDebt.asp

Reports at the time were they gave Minni two first round picks, there own and the Memphis pick.

 

[NUMBERICA]

This talk of the Jazz's 1st rounder is rather irrelevant since this guy will be lucky to be drafted 60th.

 

[homeytennis]

Precisely the reason to look at guys like this. He could be the next Jeremy Evans or Wesley.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Precisely the reason to look at guys like this. He could be the next Jeremy Evans or Wesley.

We don't know anything about this kid besides that he scores at DII-level competition. Literally nothing. Wesley Matthews scored 20ppg at MARQUETTE and was a smart player and Evans is out of his mind long and athletic. By your criteria ('this guy does something really well at a level of competition so low that it's hardly worth comparing AT ALL'), the Jazz could be looking at HUNDREDS of players. And hell, maybe they are.

Honestly, Stockton's son at Westminster interests me a lot more than this kid. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe he makes it, but if I had to say, this kid will not ever play in the NBA and if he does, it will be after years after toiling away in the D-League or Europe.

 

[homeytennis]

This guy is still learning the game by his own admission. I'm not saying he's a lead pipe cinch but he's playing at a higher level than Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, or Jack Sikma played at.

 

[NUMBERICA]

This guy is still learning the game by his own admission. I'm not saying he's a lead pipe cinch but he's playing at a higher level than Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, or Jack Sikma played at.

So have a lot of other people in the last >20 years. If he plays a winning brand of basketball and is athletic, sure, give him a look. However, somehow I'm skeptical of those points as, again, we know nothing about this kid other than his background and that he scores a lot against bad competition.