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Top 5 Jazz Players of All Time

Pick 5

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    52
gomretat said:
There are 3 no brainers - Stockton, Malone, Dantley. And Eaton needs to be on this list. He had way more impact on the outcome of games than a number of those listed.
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Am I living in some type of bizarro world where Maravich never existed?!
 
gomretat said:
There are 3 no brainers - Stockton, Malone, Dantley. And Eaton needs to be on this list. He had way more impact on the outcome of games than a number of those listed.
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Horny needs to be listed. I would have had him over Okur or Boozer in my voting.
 
Cy said:
And never got out of the 2nd round of the playoffs and only made the PO 4 years?

Ummmm.... he is what we would call "overrated player getting stats on bad teams and enjoys it more than winning". He was style over substance.
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So Chris Paul isn't one of the top-5 players in the NBA because he's never been out of the 2nd-round round..
 
White Chocolate said:
So Chris Paul isn't one of the top-5 players in the NBA because he's never been out of the 2nd-round round..
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He's also made the playoffs nearly every year of his career and his teams win every year. Don't twist what I'm saying. Also, CP3 career isn't over and he plays to win, not just for stats.
 
Cy said:
And never got out of the 2nd round of the playoffs and only made the PO 4 years?

Ummmm.... he is what we would call "overrated player getting stats on bad teams and enjoys it more than winning". He was style over substance.
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my favorite part
 
As I stated in the OP certain compromises had to be made to pare it down to 10 players. Maybe I should do a series of players from different eras for voting and combine them to get to the final 10 or something but I think this is pretty close. Win shares is not a bad point of comparison really.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Can't find ostertag on the list....
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I'm searching for Handlogten. I had to settle for Stockton, Malone, Dantley (who I never enjoyed watching but he sure was effective pushing people around with that enormous butt) and Hornacek. I wish I could have chosen Kirilenko because he was initially on an amazing trajectory, but man, did he ever become a different player once he got paid. I left Pistol off for the same reasons Cy did. He was never any good as a member of the Utah Jazz. In fact, he was pathetic. The other player I gave serious consideration to was Okur.

It seems like a large portion of the current team is making a play for inclusion on this list. If they continue on their current trajectories it's going to get really, really crowded in the top five of the Jazz.

Edit: Whoops I meant to mention DWill. He also made my list.
 
davidbenoit said:
Am I living in some type of bizarro world where Maravich never existed?!
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I think the bizarro thing is that you probably weren't alive to see him on the Utah Jazz so you have no concept of how bad he was. Definitely the worst player on the team even though he had a highlight filled offensive career on the New Orleans Jazz. He was fun to watch when he played well, but it would never have been fun to cheer for his team because they never won.
 
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