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share your current thoughts about whether Taylor Hendricks is an NBA player

framer said:
I mean it is really hard to argue the process on Cody now seeing the results. Not sure that same approach would work for every player.

It looks like they did a complete teardown with Cody, and yeah, something like that was probably pretty difficult for him. On the other hand, it appears the teardown for Ace went really well. Outside some shot making, he doesn't resemble himself much as a college player.
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Not very hard to argue at all. I can say he got better because he started getting consistent minutes which gave him confidence. Same goes for Brice. At the end of the day, the argument for why they got better is "because I said so".

Elizah Huge said:
The bottom line is he might not be very good but he also should be playing more. Especially over Kyle Anderson.
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The main argument for why he should be playing is...."why not?". If the answer to that is because we have to play Kyle Anderson, that's a bad answer.
 
Elizah Huge said:
The bottom line is he might not be very good but he also should be playing more. Especially over Kyle Anderson.
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Damn straight.
Hoping things change after the deadline
 
default said:
Is it just a mental thing after the injury? I hope so. He seems to have the size and tools, but doesn't perform even when given time since the injury.
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I think that is a giant part of it. He looked lost his rookie year early and that is how he looks right now. As the season progressed you could see he was more comfortable.

I get that Will likes to coach hard. Yelling and screaming at a kid over mistakes is not always going to inspire confidence. He needs to play with more assertiveness and confidence... he is so afraid to make mistakes right now and then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. I think you need to give him enough time to offer correction but maybe losing you **** on him for a full timeout when he makes a mistake isn't the best way to get to him.

Also, really hard to get in any kind of rhythm when you play. I'd be gifting him 15 minutes a night and let him know he will get that time but he needs to play less scared. At the end of the year if you feel you have enough then you move on. Someone will take a flyer on the kid. Someone might do it now and if this is how they view him then they should take that offer now.

I'm sure the minutes will come in March/April... but I think we should do it now personally.
 
What is Taylor's competition, is it Flip? If so, then not like Flip is any good but he blows Hendricks out of the water. And he is two times cheaper. I just don't see any reason for the Jazz to keep investing time and money into Hendricks. His ceiling came down dramatically, after all.

Flip or a cheap veteran PF can easily replace what Hendricks can become in the realistic best case scenario.
 
If he can recover physically to the point where he gets off the floor to challenge shots and rebound in traffic, plus guard switches, he's fine as a big 3D wing. My role comp for him has always been Dorian Finney-Smith.

The problem is that Hendricks isn't moving well right now, and he's not skilled enough to compensate for it.
 
default said:
Is it just a mental thing after the injury? I hope so. He seems to have the size and tools, but doesn't perform even when given time since the injury.
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It's both mental from the injury and mental in that he never had a mental to play NBA basketball. Dude needs to go to Europe and learn to play.
 
default said:
Is it just a mental thing after the injury? I hope so. He seems to have the size and tools, but doesn't perform even when given time since the injury.
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There is a big difference between random spot minutes and consistent minutes. Basketball is really difficult when playing spot minutes. Particularly for young guys that are learning the game. He has to get consistent minutes to learn anything right now. Worst case scenario he is a great tank commander and best case scenario he shows potential. It's a bummer that after his best game earlier this year his reward was 4 minutes rather than trying to build some confidence. Unfortunately Hardy is known for doing that. The worst was NAW who was playing great but would constantly get his minutes pulled for lesser players.
 
The injury obviously has an impact on things, but if you look back on the tape from UCF (not highlights but actual tape I don't think the low BBIQ stuff should be a surprise at all.
 
sip said:
He has to get consistent minutes to learn anything right now. Worst case scenario he is a great tank commander and best case scenario he shows potential.
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What potential are we talking about? The Jazz are paying him 6 million to show potential (and will pay him 8 million next season). Do you realistically see Hendricks as a solid starter PF in the future? Because you don't develop your future bench players by shoveling tons of time and money into them. You can get impactful vets for cheap: our own Svi is making 3 million and change.
 
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