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Takes on the 1st and 2nd-year players....and progress if there happens to be any

Taylor is already a pretty nice NBA role player but not sure if he can develop into anything more.

The rest should consider themselves lucky to be still in this league in 5 years.
 
I hope Keyonte becomes a talented scorer and a MUCH BETTER decision maker but 39% FG and 33% 3pt is not a talented scorer in my book.

Calling Keyonte a "talented scorer" is a symptom of a common NBA sickness – overvaluing your own draft picks. When a guy isn't really showing you anything but there's a lot riding on him, you start squinting hard because the truth is too depressing. Chucking becomes fearlessness, ballhogging becomes leadership, getting blown by on the perimeter becomes bad help defense by someone else. You see it all the time.

Key will develop, but so will every young player. If you take away the rose-tinted glasses, he's a tweener with no elite NBA skills who's still blatantly quitting on defensive plays and sulking in his 2nd year. Not ideal, but it is what it is.
 
Also we have to consider the Jazz are playing playoff caliber teams, veteran playoff caliber teams.

If we are getting our asses kicked by Washington/Portland/Brooklyn there might be some warranted concern.
 
100% of your takes here are doom and gloom, it's why I'm genuinely curious why you stick around when you think there's no hope and misery is all there is.
Misery is what miserable people spread, just like happiness is what happy people spread.

Sometimes its just that simple.
 
I will go with superstars since I think both of them have a good shot at ending up in the HOF
For me a superstar is an MVP contender

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How many all stars are you expecting to acquire per draft? Quite the bar!


I haven’t seen anything from these dudes, but someone tell me who the picks at those spots should have been that would have you feeling differently today.




This thread seems disingenuous as hell.
One actual star in the last 5 x 1sts would be great. Ainge hits a lot of base hits on draft picks was my point then and remains my point.

I was pissed draft night for us not grabbing Matas. Jury is still out on that one and will be for a while. I was also super bummed when the suns grabbed Dunn.

Also, I am not paid to be a draft analyst or a GM, so why can't I be frustrated when other GMs appear to do better? That's what forums like this are for.
 
Ah, I see we are at the "Walker Kessler will be a career back up!" and "It is clear that Taylor Hendricks will never be an NBA player!!!" point of the early season.

Especially from the people demanding that we give large amounts of playing time to rookies and second year players to "help the tank" then bitch about losing.

You guys should just get on that Ute bandwagon if you want to be frontrunners.
 
Ah, I see we are at the "Walker Kessler will be a career back up!" and "It is clear that Taylor Hendricks will never be an NBA player!!!" point of the early season.

Especially from the people demanding that we give large amounts of playing time to rookies and second year players to "help the tank" then bitch about losing.

You guys should just get on that Ute bandwagon if you want to be frontrunners.
I want to be able to embrace the tank while the young guys also flash potential. I don't want to embrace the tank while the young guys all look like busts
 
Patience is not a virtue for everyone.
Extreme variance in performance night to night is to be expected with so many young guys. I'm sure we'll have nights where everyone looks good at points this year too. After the first game everone was saying it was a perfect L, competing with a playoff team until the end of a close loss, lmao
 
I want to be able to embrace the tank while the young guys also flash potential. I don't want to embrace the tank while the young guys all look like busts
I mean it has been 2 games. 1 of those games the young guys looked pretty good. I don't think you are being reasonable at all.
 
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