Summer 2015: FIBA games of Utah Jazz players

[NCJazz]

France just beat Spain-- and I honestly think France > Serbia.

It quite honestly depends on the play of Boris Diaw. If he's out of shape and non-disciplined, it dramatically hurts their team. We saw what he did against the Heat.

Guess who beat France in the semis of last year's World Cup? True look good with all the NBA guys but Serbia has proven they are legit as well.

 

[Jazz4ever]

Gobert not even the tallest guy on French team.

Alexis Ajinca. Certainly a player in many GMs minds when they passed on Gobert.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Yeah he looks noticeably bigger in those pics. Hopefully that will translate to better defensive plays next season.

yeah cause he kindof sucked so bad in that aspect of the game last season .....

 

[BTP]

I don't know if it was mentioned previously, but apparently Alex Jensen is an assistant coach for the German National Team and will work individually with Pleiß(since last Sunday) until August 1, when he's officially allowed to join team activities under his NBA contract.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

I don't know if it was mentioned previously, but apparently Alex Jensen is an assistant coach for the German National Team and will work individually with Pleiß(since last Sunday) until August 1, when he's officially allowed to join team activities under his NBA contract.

Cool. This is a big positive for the Jazz. What's Jensen's German connection?

 

[Stoked]

I don't know if it was mentioned previously, but apparently Alex Jensen is an assistant coach for the German National Team and will work individually with Pleiß(since last Sunday) until August 1, when he's officially allowed to join team activities under his NBA contract.

Cool. This is a big positive for the Jazz. What's Jensen's German connection?

Other then just being hired as an assistant coach I do not know of one.

I think it is great that a Jazz coach will be working with Pleiss that much. It will ease his transition and give the Jazz coaching staff more insight into his strengths and weaknesses going into training camp.

 

[BTP]

Cool. This is a big positive for the Jazz. What's Jensen's German connection?

My guess is Pleiß. He was hired late June, when the Jazz had his rights and probably a good idea he'd join them.
The official press release states, that they needed someone, who
a) had both FIBA + NBA experience(Maybe individual scouting on NBA opponents)
b) is a good development coach

Maybe the Jazz even wanted him on that team to monitor and steer Tibor's individual offseason workouts. There's another interview with Jensen, where they only published the German version. He's speaking about his work with Gobert, experience as a ball player himself and he wants Pleiß to play with more energy and anger.

 

[addictionary]

Hey guys,

The Jazz roster has included at least one Turkish citizen for quite some time now. Let's not cut this trend. FIBA U-18 European championship. Turkey Roster: Furkan Korkmaz. Follow that guy. Draft him. Championship!

 

[Stifle Tower]

Do the Jazz have the most international players on their roster?

 

[stitches]

Hey guys,

The Jazz roster has included at least one Turkish citizen for quite some time now. Let's not cut this trend. FIBA U-18 European championship. Turkey Roster: Furkan Korkmaz. Follow that guy. Draft him. Championship!

I hope he's there when we pick. He looks really good from the little I've seen. Unfortunately he's probably going to be a top 10 pick.

 

[addictionary]

I hope he's there when we pick. He looks really good from the little I've seen. Unfortunately he's probably going to be a top 10 pick.

Mock draft is a bitch. You never know. But the dude's stock is only going up. I hope he stays healthy. This has been and still is a really stuffed offseason schedule for the guy.

 

[Hekate]

Looks like Korkmaz will go before Güven. Güven's stock can fall a little bit because he is very rusty but I wouldn't mind him even if he is not a great fit with Jazz.