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What is Rudy's ceiling?

The HOF! I kinda like his chances at aging like Mutombo (who was 1yr older than Rudy right now in his rookie year)
 
Gobert's ceiling? How about Hassan Whiteside? Just kidding. I think a somewhat less physical (and durable) Robert Parish is his ceiling. I think he will always be a complementary scorer.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
He has to prove he can either make some sort of post move outside of 5 feet or hit a jump shot consistently. Until then his ceiling is what we are seeing, just with natural maturation, physically and mentally. His random drive game is cool when defenses fall asleep, but I dont trust it. He flails and seems to get called for offensive fouls. That and he keeps pivoting into the defender on fake DHO, which depending on the ref crew, can always be called as a moving screen.
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If someone had predicted last year(or even the year before) that he would have arguably the most solid hands on our team this year what would you have said?
 
str8line said:
Crazy. He's got a lot of time to improve.
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There's such a strong case of constant improvement with Gobert it really portends well for future development. I remember posting in the draftees thread way back that I believed he could be a 70's type of FT shooter!!!


Rudy's ascension is reminiscent of an NBA quality big hitting their stride in college, except obviously Rudy's doing this in the best league on the planet.
 
He will never be a go to scorer, but I can see him developing his roll game better so that he can average close to 18 points per game.
As far as defense, he can go as high as he wants, he is a the best rim protector in the league and is only gonna improve.
I dont wanna say he wont improve on offense though, I mean he has crazy fire.
The improvement of his hands is a welcome improvement though
 
str8line said:
If someone had predicted last year(or even the year before) that he would have arguably the most solid hands on our team this year what would you have said?
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I would have said (and still say) Favors still has better hands.
 
I still think a big part of Rudy's hand improvement is that he is playing with Favors less which means more spacing/less people digging in on him.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I still think a big part of Rudy's hand improvement is that he is playing with Favors less which means more spacing/less people digging in on him.
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But that goes against the theory that the Jazz are way too good if everyone is healthy. Shouldn't adding a healthy Favors make everything better? Are the Jazz not as good as we think? If an offense gets that only scored 74!! points last night gets even muddier with the addition of Favors then it's a pretty hopeless situation. They are gonna hold teams like GS and SAS under 75 points?
 
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