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The Udoka pick is the worst in team history

Handlogten's Heros said:
Strong disagree. Taking a guard coming off an amazing season for the best team in the country... when he won MOP was perfectly reasonable. He's also shown more NBA potential than Udoka.

Taking a traditional center over Bane and others was really bad. Herb has been a revelation but there are long toolsy guys like him every year... some hit and some do not.
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I like Bane, but Herb Jones is a perfect compliment to any team. He defends, can run a little offense, defends as well as anybody in the league and can play SF, PF or C. He would have fit our needs very, very well.
 
What makes it even worse is that right after the draft we used our $9.5 million MLE on Derrick Favors. So, we wasted our first-round pick and all our cap space on backup centers, when backup center is the cheapest and easiest position to fill. You can get a very good backup center for the minimum, just look at Whiteside.
 
Jazz dealing for Mike Conley is exactly like when Hawks traded for Mike Bibby. Expect Hawks knew exactly what they were getting. Just lower your expectations.
 
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Doke is probably the second worst pick. A hair better than drafting a shot blocking big man from Europe in 2007 when Marc Gasol was still available.

Lakers wouldn't be able to get Pau if they didn't get to draft Marc. Then the Kobe-Odom-Pau trio would never have been formed to take away Sloan's last chance to win the Jazz a championship.
 
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Without any context Dante Exum over Marcus Smart was pretty bad. With all the context that has already been discussed here, this was worse.
 
LoPo said:
I like Bane, but Herb Jones is a perfect compliment to any team. He defends, can run a little offense, defends as well as anybody in the league and can play SF, PF or C. He would have fit our needs very, very well.
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I agree... I just think guys like Herb are in a lot of drafts... just they can't turn the theory into production like he has... if that makes sense. So it may be a draft miss but at least it makes sense. The Udoka pick never made sense and was a miss. I generally will be less forgiving if I understand the general premise behind the pick. Drafting is hard.

Bane/Jones.... Give me either guy and I'd be happy. I don't consider JB a miss.
 
Jingled said:
What makes it even worse is that right after the draft we used our $9.5 million MLE on Derrick Favors. So, we wasted our first-round pick and all our cap space on backup centers, when backup center is the cheapest and easiest position to fill. You can get a very good backup center for the minimum, just look at Whiteside.
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It was the simplest thing to mess up. Like when docs amputate the wrong leg.... You performed the hardest part of this job very well... but you effed up with the sharpie marker.
 
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