The Official Love/Hate draft thread

[LoPo]

Love in the 2nd round - Okogie, Frazier, Grayson
Relatively happy with in the first round - DonteD, Brown, Huerter

This is my most undecided draft of all time.
The bad thing is there's not that one player I'm gonna go nuts about if we get him (like Mitchell).
The good thing is there is not that one player I'm going to be crushed about should we not get him (like Kawhi).

 

[The Midnight]

I'd hate it if we draft Donte as indicated on the table.

 

[Hekate]

Love: Okobo
Like: Frazier, Brown, Simmons
Relatively Happy With: KBD, Okogie, Donte D
Meh: Allen, Musa, Melton, Hutchison, Huerter, Evans, Khyri
Hate: Holiday, Brunson, Robinsons, Wagner

 

[Jack Strop]

Love: Anyone Lindsey drafts, cuz after getting Mitchell he has a free pass this season.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

fair. edited.

okay, jagoff, you can't post in this thread and not have an entry.

What happened in the 11 minutes between these posts?

 

[Roy_McAvoy]

Why that composite ranking? What am I, chopped liver? https://jazzfanz.com/threads/coltons-2018-mock-draft-compilation-v-2-0.93249/

Because it's a more sensible composite ranking. Your ranking includes several mock drafts of people who have no idea what they're talking about and weights those as equally as guys like Jonathan Givony's mock.

Elie Okobo as #29 consensus ranking? Come on, no way he falls that far. Aaron Holiday as #17 composite? No chance. There's also guys in those mocks who have since withdrawn from the draft.

love: Elie Okobo, Khyri Thomas
Like: Donte Divicenzo, KBD, Kevin Huerter
Relatively happy with: Chandler Hutchison, Mitchell Robinson, Melvin Frazier, Troy Brown, Omari Spellman
meh, but sorta disappointed: Anfernee Simons, Jacob Evans, Aaron Holiday, Jalen Brunson, D'Anthony Melton, Dzana Musa
Hate: Grayson Allen, Gary Trent Jr

 

[fishonjazz]

using this and go as high as Troy Brown at 17 because that is where there is a drop off

do as many categories as you want (meaning, if you just want to do a love and a hate rather than 5 like i've done) but who do you

love: Okobo, Khyri
Like: Okogie, Musa, Jerome Robinson, KBD
Relatively happy with: Hutchison, Huerter, Frazier, Troy Brown, DD, Trent, Milton, Wagner
meh, but sorta disappointed: Simons, Evans, Holiday, Brunson, Melton, M Robinson
Hate: Grayson

How do you feel about Donte ?

 

[stitches]

This is specifically for #21 pick(some of the meh/hate picks would be good picks in the second)

Love: Elie Okobo, Kevin Huerter
Like: Troy Brown, Chandler Hutchison, Keita Bates-Diop
Relatively happy with: Dzenan Musa, Anfernee Simons, Khyri Thomas, Jacob Evans, Josh Okogie, Donte DiVincenzo
Meh, but sorta disappointed: Jerome Robinson, Melvin Frazier, Shake Milton, DeAnthony Melton
Hate: Grayson Allen, Aaron Holiday, Mitchell Robinson, Jalen Brunson

 

[Jazz Spazz]

Love: Okobo, Frazier, Okogie
Like: Huerter, KBD, Brown
Ok w/: Donte, Musa, Mitch Robinson
Meh: everyone else
Hate: Allen, Holiday

 

[seattlejazzfan]

How do you feel about Donte ?

He's one I'd be fine with. Wouldn't be thrilled, but he can shoot, he's tough, aggressive and athletic. Don't love his size/length.

 

[kabenac]

Which site predicts the best? I know last season I looked into NBADRAFT.NET and their Jazz track record and it wasn't too pretty (admittedly, draft predictions outside the top-10 get tough to predict):

Starting in 1999, here's a list of the correct picks:

-Trey Lyles (2015)
-'Wenis' Kanter (2011)
-Deron Williams (2005)
-Aleksandar Pavlovic (2003)

Love: Trent Jr., Khyri (seeing how his coaches talk about Khyri and hearing him talk basketball give me the impression DL will fall in love with him as he has that Rudy/Mitchell work-ethic yet low-key nature)

Like: Shamet, Holiday

Relatively happy with: Allen, Spellman (I like him but think he could be had in the 2nd round), DiVincenzo, Bates-Diop, Wagner (another 2nd round trade-up target)

Meh: Huerter, Evans, Okobo, Hutchinson

Hate: Brunson (won't be able to defend)

If Khyri is gone at 21 I hope we can trade down for a later first and some 2nd round picks. I see several rotation guys from 31-40. I had mentioned a trade with Philly would be something to consider.

 

[colton]

Because it's a more sensible composite ranking. Your ranking includes several mock drafts of people who have no idea what they're talking about and weights those as equally as guys like Jonathan Givony's mock.

For what it's worth my composite outperformed all other mocks last year EXCEPT Jonathan Givony's mock.