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Rip Hamilton a superstar lolololololol
Utah Jazz to build during draft or free agency 2015-2016?? Or???
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latin jazz
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Lol at this. The Pistons was a great team, an entity. The sum of their parts was better than the individual talent, similar to what's going on with the Hawks. Their team had fringe-all stars, solid starters. Billups, Rip superstars? That's a reach.
Does it help to have a superstar on your team to win a championship? Sure, it helps (not guaranteed though....see Knicks).
Perhaps we have one superstar already....Rudy!
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stockcillo12
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Splitter?
framer
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If the second half of this year with such a young team is not a fluke, the Utah Jazz have a chance to be a historically great defensive team, not best in the NBA but best all time. With that type of trajectory it is really difficult to compare the Jazz with teams in the last 10 years or so. Also, our oldest key player is as old as Detroit's youngest when they won the championship. It is the exact wrong time to blow the thing up looking for "superstars."
gregbroncs
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None of those guys were even close to conversation as best player at their respective position. Most of those guys were considered less than a lot of current Jazz players are right now before that team became what they were. The Jazz could very well have players right now that become better than every one of those guys. And as you show in here everyone of those guys were in their prime for those runs and non of the key Jazz players are.
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Also as others have said you are seriously overrating every one of those guys.
Joe Bagadonuts
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Imagine that. A group of players wins a championship and they start to get recognition as a result. Whoda thunk it. What makes you think this same sort of recognition wouldn't happen if the Jazz won a championship? And then you could say, "See, we only won a championship because we had players who would eventually earn recognition."
With Chauncey Billips as a superstar (second team All NBA once, Third Team All NBA twice), how many superstars are in the NBA today? Just in PGs, I'd place Curry, Paul, Westbrook, Rose, Parker, Wall, Lillard, Lowry, Irving, Teague, and Bledsoe in Billip's league or above. Are there 11+ superstar PGs in the league right now? The bottom of that PG list is pretty close to "average starting PG".
Rip Hamilton as a superstar is even silier, almost not worth debating, shooting fish in a barrel. Scored 20 ppg twice in his career. Never made an all-NBA team. This is boring. Not just a star, a SUPERSTAR?
Please give me a list of players you consider superstars today. If there are more than 10, we have a problem with defining the word "super" Then I'll show you#11 who is better than these guys.
(By the way, I LOVE Rip and Chauncey and this team, but superstars are LeBron, Kobe, Magic, Curry, Hakeem)
precisely.