Taylor Hendricks Hype Thread
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He only works at the 5 against guys that lack strength and have a more perimeter oriented game. He is going to be at his best at the 4 I would guess with the ability to switch on to most players without getting eaten up. It should be fun to see his game grow over the rest of this year as he gains confidence. I love the fact that he doesn't show any hesitancy when it comes to shooting the 3 ball even though he isn't hitting them right now. He will definitely have a few games where he gets hot and we get a good idea of what he may be in the future.
Maybe if you have a perfect defensive lineup around him, but I dont think he is going to command a defensive unit at the 5 on the strength of his ability to play the 5.
framer
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I think the draw of Hendricks is that he allows you to play a traditional rim protector at the 5 except in extreme small ball matchup situations.
Alright, so I haven't been very active here but there have been a handful of things I've wanted to say that I haven't been able to get around to. This may seem a little late, but I found the whole idea of the FO throwing cold water on TH very bizarre. Not directly, obviously, but the vibe coming from the leaks and people around the organization was to almost combat fan expectation or enthusiasm not by saying "hey, he's a rookie, we're glad we have him, he's got a lot of learning and maturing, etc., etc., but we're working with it" but rather by basically saying "hey, you guys are unrealistic because this guy sucks." More than strange, the irony seems to be lost that it's a self-indictment. He sucks? Oh, okay. He's on our roster as a result of the experts experting last draft. The natural retort is probably, "but our hands were tied because we were in the 9th spot and the 8 other guys got drafted before us." The reason we were in the 9th spot, again, is a result of the experts experting last year. If the argument is "hey, we couldn't get a good enough look at him to know _____," well, guess what. Yep, that's right. No matter how you slice this and no matter how far you keep kicking the can on this argument, it still flows back to self-indictment. I'm not saying anything bad about TH (that's certainly not my opinion), I just think it's funny that instead leaking out about how he's our guy and we expect it to be slow but we're working with him and whatever, it's just leaked out "he ****ing sucks" as if every turn of this process doesn't end with responsibility on the shoulders of the FO.
That said, I'm under no illusion of perfection and I try to reign in complaining [too much] about decisions in hindsight. If the decision is patently obviously poor in foresight (Collins, THT, etc.) then I will criticize that rather than things that had decent reasoning but just didn't work out. I believe most people will believe in and push the idea that, yes, even professionals make mistakes, but I just wish this wasn't just an idea that only gets thrown out and acknowledged post hoc. It's easy to say "hey, they make mistakes, too" well after the fact. It's the challenge that before and during the poor decision making that nobody can appeal to the idea that the decisions could be wrong but more of an appeal to letting the experts expert. Let's just apply it equally to both sides and acknowledge some level of agnosticism about the process. If the FO believes TH sucks, it means last summer they had no clue what they were doing. If it's a function of draft position, it shows that before and during the season, the FO had no clue what they were doing. Right now I kinda feel like we have no clue what we're doing but that will only be acknowledged well after the fact of "well duh this didn't work out and it's not hard to see why" but most people who consider themselves reasonable would eschew acknowledging this in real time.
tl;dr I like Hendricks and he needs to play and it's one of the many dumb things about the Collins trade.
Flame away.
That said, I'm under no illusion of perfection and I try to reign in complaining [too much] about decisions in hindsight. If the decision is patently obviously poor in foresight (Collins, THT, etc.) then I will criticize that rather than things that had decent reasoning but just didn't work out. I believe most people will believe in and push the idea that, yes, even professionals make mistakes, but I just wish this wasn't just an idea that only gets thrown out and acknowledged post hoc. It's easy to say "hey, they make mistakes, too" well after the fact. It's the challenge that before and during the poor decision making that nobody can appeal to the idea that the decisions could be wrong but more of an appeal to letting the experts expert. Let's just apply it equally to both sides and acknowledge some level of agnosticism about the process. If the FO believes TH sucks, it means last summer they had no clue what they were doing. If it's a function of draft position, it shows that before and during the season, the FO had no clue what they were doing. Right now I kinda feel like we have no clue what we're doing but that will only be acknowledged well after the fact of "well duh this didn't work out and it's not hard to see why" but most people who consider themselves reasonable would eschew acknowledging this in real time.
tl;dr I like Hendricks and he needs to play and it's one of the many dumb things about the Collins trade.
Flame away.
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Its weird... I still can't tell if they were going for "hey we got Key at 16 and we had him 10th right after TH" and they were trying to make it sound good. Or maybe they were going for "hey we don't love how this worked out and we are all looking for the people that did this".
Its just weird they pimp up certain guys like Ochai as untouchable or a must start guy in Year 2 and temper expectations on other guys so hard. Not sure if there is anything we can or should make of it.
homeytennis
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Regarding Infection's comments regarding Tay Henny's suckiness, at the moment he really does as in Luka style suckiness. It's disappointing as Luka averaged about 10 ppg last year during the tankapalooza. I realize that Scouts and FOs don't nail every pick but it seems some alarm bells should have been going off. It's also disappointing that the FO is shrugging their shoulders at this now.
Maybe this is me reading into too much….but Zanik was so excited when talking about how the draft fell. It makes me wonder if they actually had Keyonte higher, or maybe he personally thought of Keyonte higher, and they made a gamble to wait on Keyonte and got both. TH wasn’t going to fall to 16, so they rolled the dice and got both.
I don’t think I can co-sign a lot of @infections thoughts. For example, I don’t think trading for JC is necessarily an indictment on TH….but I think everyone can see that internally the Jazz don’t seem super high on him for whatever reason. I had expectations of TH…and I think he’s fell short of that. But I don’t think he’s as bad as the internal reviews (what’s been reported) seem to indicate.
homeytennis
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In one of the write ups of the Magic game they wrote about Tay Henny's twin who also plays at UCF. The twin is a college pine rider. He is 6'6" and is averaging about three ppg after redshirting last season. It makes you wonder about the family's athletics gene pool.
Hmm… Exum had a twin. So did Hayward. So did Jarron Collins.
This has to mean… something.
Not really
I got all the athletic, smart, and good-looking genes instead of my siblings.