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For me, the Hill trade is a win now move and an okay one. It doesn't make me feel great that he only had one year left.

I love the Bolomboy move. We drafted a guy with an elite NBA skill at #52. He's a local guy too which helps some fans get excited.

I hate that we couldn't trade up to get Korkmaz, Luwawu or even Davis or DMurray after they plummeted. I'm assuming we tried.

I don't think the Paige pick makes any sense unless we are trying to win the DLeague this year. I don't see him ever wearing a Jazz uniform in the regular season. We should have draft and stash or sold the pick or flip for a future 2nd.

#60 doesn't bother me. He's got size and potential. He was worth the flier. I don't expect much though.

Overall and factoring in the Hill trade, I give this a C. If Hill plays well and any others help us out, it could rise to B. If Hill leaves after one disappointing year, it would be the worst draft in franchise history.

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Side Note - the OKC trade with Orlando all but guarantees us their pick in 2018. I think Durant and/or Westbrook leave either this summer or next but Oladipo with Adams, Kanter, Sabonis and other pieces should be a low level playoff team in 2017-18. If they end up being a bottom feeder, we would never get a first from them.

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Lol at the guy saying we should've signed Chalmers instead of trading for Hill.

I'd give it a B. Sounds like they tried and failed to get into that late first-round, that would've made it a A+ for sure.
 
I don't get the Tyrone and Paige picks but adding Hill and Bolomboy is legit. I'd give it a B or B-.
 
I'd say A-

This draft sucked *** and we got a starter out of it.

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King Cy said:
I'd say A-

This draft sucked *** and we got a starter out of it.

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Agree. Also believe we got a player that will make the team in Bolomboy. Kinda perplexed why the Jazz decided half of the roster needed to be point guards. But I fully trust Lindsey knows what he's doing. I believe we will add a significant piece before training camp. OKC won the night without having a pick.
 
My biggest complaint was that we couldn't do what the Warriors did to get McCaw. Loved him. Otherwise, the quality of this draft was poor. I'm not too bent out of shape that we, for the most part, stayed out of it. And hey, we turned a late lottery pick into (and this is at the very minimum) a top 15 PG. I can live with that.
 
SCS said:
It's a waste because we could have just signed a similar combo guard in free agency without giving up anything. Mario Chalmers for instance.
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This might be sort of true if there was no limit to the number of players you could have on your team.
 
SCS said:
Chalmers was just one example. The key factor here is, is George Hill THAT much better than Chalmers (or anyone else available in free agency) that you give up a lottery pick for him? No chance.
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Since you can only play 5 players at a time, players who are only a little bit better are a lot more valuable. If they allowed us to play Chalmers and whoever we could have gotten at 12 plus four other starters (for a total of 6 guys) at the same time, you would be right.
 
SCS said:
Chalmers was just one example. The key factor here is, is George Hill THAT much better than Chalmers (or anyone else available in free agency) that you give up a lottery pick for him? No chance.
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Yes, George Hill is way ahead of Chalmers. Late lottery picks were jack this year. Players who were projected to go in the 2nd round or late 1st ended up getting taken with late lottery picks this year.
 
Did we just learn the value of Trey Burke? I'm assuming the Jazz reached out and tried to trade him for a pick and no one took.

[MENTION=4696]SCS[/MENTION]- what free agent point guards are you talking about?
 
JFFR said:
Did we just learn the value of Trey Burke? I'm assuming the Jazz reached out and tried to trade him for a pick and no one took.

[MENTION=4696]SCS[/MENTION]- what free agent point guards are you talking about?
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I have a feeling trading into the late first round probably got extremely hard with all the late lottery/mid first projected picks falling because teams where reaching for players.
 
Wasn't sure where else to post this. Does anyone know if OKC now has to give us their 2017 1st rd pick (if non-lottery) because of the Ibaka trade?
 
King Cy said:
Yes, George Hill is way ahead of Chalmers. Late lottery picks were jack this year. Players who were projected to go in the 2nd round or late 1st ended up getting taken with late lottery picks this year.
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Career stats
Hill- 11 ppg, 3 apg, 3rpg
Chalmers- 9 ppg, 4 apg, 3rpg

Hill is a better 3 pt shooter but I don't classify him as "way ahead"
 
SCS said:
Career stats
Hill- 11 ppg, 3 apg, 3rpg
Chalmers- 9 ppg, 4 apg, 3rpg

Hill is a better 3 pt shooter but I don't classify him as "way ahead"
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Cool.

Meanwhile the rest of the world who watches basketball think Hill is really good, including Zach Lowe who thinks he is better than Serge Ibaka.
 
Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 4h4 hours ago
The one thing that gets hammered home whenever he is in the news: a lot of people wildly underrated George Hill. He is really good.
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