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Taylor Hendricks Hype Thread

Pisses me off Dok was #2 on their draft board but they took Whitmore off completely. Should’ve just kept DM and Gobert. My faith in the jazz ability to build a contender is seriously waning.
Rudy and Don together was not working but they for sure should have kept one of the two and built around whomever they kept. We would be much better off and still have some good flexibility. I look forward to the day that we once again look forward to game day 82 nights a year instead of draft day and the trade deadline. I do agree that the reaction from the players, and FINALLY from a few media members might mean we don't blow it up again at the deadline next year. IMO this summer the Jazz have to do something serious to get us better.
 
Rudy and Don together was not working but they for sure should have kept one of the two and built around whomever they kept. We would be much better off and still have some good flexibility. I look forward to the day that we once again look forward to game day 82 nights a year instead of draft day and the trade deadline. I do agree that the reaction from the players, and FINALLY from a few media members might mean we don't blow it up again at the deadline next year. IMO this summer the Jazz have to do something serious to get us better.
This. I keep thinking how awesome it would be to see Lauri with Gobert, and that could have happened.
 
This. I keep thinking how awesome it would be to see Lauri with Gobert, and that could have happened.
Have said that myself a number of times on this board. In this market you simply cant dump HOF type players who really want to be here and really want to win.
 
Have said that myself a number of times on this board. In this market you simply cant dump HOF type players who really want to be here and really want to win.
Well I’m sure the jazz are the only ones that considered him seriously for the first round. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people say they can do a better job than the org at building the team but at this point I’m tempted to make the claim myself. I haven’t been happy with a lot of the decision-making of late.
 
Well I’m sure the jazz are the only ones that considered him seriously for the first round. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people say they can do a better job than the org at building the team but at this point I’m tempted to make the claim myself. I haven’t been happy with a lot of the decision-making of late.
Dok was 2 on an analytics model, not their board
Meant to quote this. From Cy with what’s above.

Meant to quote this.
 
I could be wrong (and please provide the receipts if I am), but I don't think there was any of us who were saying right after the DM trade, "damn, a Lauri/Gobert duo would have been so great if we had just kept Gobert."
Not me. I was ecstatic just to move on from both. A part of me wishes Markkanen had just continued to be another role player. Maybe we’d have Victor or something.
 
The midrange pull-up gave me a glimmer of hope I could be wrong.

It didn't look great, but it definitely looked better than I expected.
 
Yeah let's sell half of your team to collect as many draft picks as possible just so you can totally whiff on the draft.
There was a time when I thought the jazz were half decent at drafting. But then we made a trade down so we could pick a fringe 2nd round prospect in Dok passing on two really good players. Don’t get me started on the butler pick. Sure most everyone loved the pick but what do we know. No other team seemed to want him. Last year is completely unforgivable. We passed on Whitmore, completely leaving him off their board a bonafide top four pick in a strong draft and passing on him twice. We drafted Hendricks 9th. I said he was worth drafting between 15’ish to 25 due to his skill set which is spotting up from three and shot blocking. He doesn’t present a threat really anywhere else can’t dribble or rebound and too weak to defend the post. I know the rest of you idiots got this wrong but I mean you guys are idiots. You’re supposed to get that wrong. But once again the jazz outsmarted themselves. Just once I wish they’d make the right choice, once in a while. If I can see through Hendricks why can’t the jazz?
 
There was a time when I thought the jazz were half decent at drafting. But then we made a trade down so we could pick a fringe 2nd round prospect in Dok passing on two really good players. Don’t get me started on the butler pick. Sure most everyone loved the pick but what do we know. No other team seemed to want him. Last year is completely unforgivable. We passed on Whitmore, completely leaving him off their board a bonafide top four pick in a strong draft and passing on him twice. We drafted Hendricks 9th. I said he was worth drafting between 15’ish to 25 due to his skill set which is spotting up from three and shot blocking. He doesn’t present a threat really anywhere else can’t dribble or rebound and too weak to defend the post. I know the rest of you idiots got this wrong but I mean you guys are idiots. You’re supposed to get that wrong. But once again the jazz outsmarted themselves. Just once I wish they’d make the right choice, once in a while. If I can see through Hendricks why can’t the jazz?
Just seeing his first meaningful minutes and everyone knows he is a raw prospect. Expecting him to be at peak contribution right now is too soon imo. Needs a season or even 2 to grow. Jazz decision to let him work things out here instead of g league
 
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