Salt Lake Tribune - High school coaches reflect on when they knew Jazz stars could be NBA players

[Utah Jazz Newsfeed]

Is it nature or nurture? When does potential first show itself and when is that same potential realized? As the Utah Jazz embark on the team’s first playoff appearance in five years, reflection is as much a part of the equation as anticipation. The quest for the Larry O’Brien trophy began for Jazz players not with the first whistle of this NBA season, but on high school courts in places like Brownsburg, Ind. and Meridian, Miss. As Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors, Rodney Hood and Shelvin Mack hop...

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/5157860-155/high-school-coaches-reflect-on-when

 

[Game6Conley]

In.

Many of my opinions in the draftee's thread about young players that seem destined for the league early on are usually just me reflecting comments already said by their coaches....

Obviously those coaches have a vested interest. It's an interesting dynamic for sure. There is invaluable info to be learned from the coaches tho, NBA teams certainly know and operate like this..

the chronology of when a player reaches "NBA Can't miss" status is something that people argue about on extreme ends of the spectrum. Obviously I'm far from infallible, I'm pretty good at this tho.. U need a supreme BS detector to decipher this stuff, I'm still working on calibrating mine.

all I can tell you for sure is it's a case-by-case basis.. anyone who casts blanket statements about age is WRONG.

Here's Andre Drummond at 15 years old..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubzfhn52568

 

[infection]

Do they interview Keith McLeod's HS coach?