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Top 10 Best Jazz Players of All Time (and the rest) - FINAL LIST!!!

LogGrad98 said:
Thanks!

And I agonized over Favors as well. Tough to replace anyone in the top 10 as it stands here with Favors, but a case could be made. It is interesting to hear what makes a top 10 Jazz player for everyone. Longevity and loyalty are definitely part of the equation, harkening back to our founder, Larry Miller (yeah I know he bought the team, but he really set what it meant to be a Jazz man and defined the culture).
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Favs is still in very good company when you look at the quality of players in his area on the list. I think it is about right.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Most overrated player on these lists is Ingles by far. I get you guys love him but ahead of Okur/Millsap/Bailey/Favors/Robinson/Malone is just a joke.
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I don't think rating him ahead of Okur or Millsap (one of my favorites, but his best career days were in Atlanta, not here) is awful. Neither Jeff Malone. Truck Robinson was really before my time, and looking at his career...he literally played 1.5 seasons with the team. Granted, one season was ****ing great, but still.

I would also have Thurl and Favors over Ingles, but the gap isn't that huge.
 
Coach Ellis said:
He played in 590 games and is the franchise leader in made 3’s.

Plus, everything that he brought to the community and locker room.

If anything, I think too many people were underrating him.
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To be fair, That’s definitely going to be a short lived stat. Don would definitely become the franchise leader this year (in fewer seasons), if he stayed on the roster. If not, some other person who shoots 12 threes a game will eventually pass him. JC in 2.5 seasons is already halfway to Joe’s total.
 
Coach Ellis said:
He played in 590 games and is the franchise leader in made 3’s.

Plus, everything that he brought to the community and locker room.

If anything, I think too many people were underrating him.
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590 games isn’t even top-10 all-time for Jazz players it’s 12th.

Favors played 644 total games with us.

He’s 4th in rebounds all-time, 7th in blocks, 12th in points (a mere 240 behind Deron), 11th in steals, 9th in PER and 7th in win shares.

Ingles is 5th in assists, 9th in steals and then doesn’t come close to the top-10 in any of the other stats.

Also, all that he did for the locker room? What does that mean? It sounds like he isn’t the locker room presence most people thought he was according to Andy Larsen. That was made up by fans for whatever reason.
 
Elizah Huge said:
590 games isn’t even top-10 all-time for Jazz players it’s 12th.

Favors played 644 total games with us.

He’s 4th in rebounds all-time, 7th in blocks, 12th in points (a mere 240 behind Deron), 11th in steals, 9th in PER and 7th in win shares.

Ingles is 5th in assists, 9th in steals and then doesn’t come close to the top-10 in any of the other stats.

Also, all that he did for the locker room? What does that mean? It sounds like he isn’t the locker room presence most people thought he was according to Andy Larsen. That was made up by fans for whatever reason.
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What did Andy Larsen say?

The best evidence for his locker room presence was the absolute culture meltdown we had at precisely the point he was traded this last season, that we saw both in the media and in the quality of play on the floor. Could have been coincidence, could have been brewing for a long time and just bubbled over, or could have been that Ingles did a good job of bringing the team together and when he left it just fell apart.
 
Elizah Huge said:
590 games isn’t even top-10 all-time for Jazz players it’s 12th.

Favors played 644 total games with us.

He’s 4th in rebounds all-time, 7th in blocks, 12th in points (a mere 240 behind Deron), 11th in steals, 9th in PER and 7th in win shares.

Ingles is 5th in assists, 9th in steals and then doesn’t come close to the top-10 in any of the other stats.

Also, all that he did for the locker room? What does that mean? It sounds like he isn’t the locker room presence most people thought he was according to Andy Larsen. That was made up by fans for whatever reason.
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Favors you absolutely have a good point on. I think he’s underrated as well because of the injuries and how his tenure in Utah ended.

But Jingles is underrated as well. Andy Larsen can think whatever he wants about the locker room last year and how much of an impact Jingles had on that. I will say, that I think the Jazz culture was so toxic by that point that no single player could’ve held it together.

This team used to love playing together, and it was evident that running it back last year was a mistake because that simply wasn’t the case anymore. Joe Ingles is a quintessential glue guy, who is in the Utah record books for a reason - for years, he was one of the most dangerous catch and shoot three point shooters in the NBA.
 
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