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Dwill_PwnasaurasRex said:
Has Jefferson ever stopped sucking? Or stopped a team from sucking?
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Jefferson has been to more NBA Finals than anyone else on our team. A 17 point 5 rebound guy isn't exactly what I call sucking. He may not be Lebron and may not fit in w/the Spurs but he doesn't suck.
 
unluckyseventeen said:
I really hate it when people do this, acting as if it's legitimate beef to say "they passed on this guy, this guy...". Well, guess what, you could say the same thing about every other GM in the NBA. 29 teams passed on Millsap. 29 teams passed on CJ Miles. 29 teams passed on Carlos Boozer and Mehmet Okur. 30 teams passed on Wesley Matthews. Therefore, every GM in the NBA is stupid... I have the evidence to support that point. See?

Here's the truth about the draft: Being able to tell how college talent is going to translate to NBA production is a complete crapshoot. You go off them playing in an incomplete offense against inferior "NBA-level" talent for a few minutes at a time, while several different scouts form an estimation and they collaborate in an attempt to see who might be better than the other. You base assumptions off this, and take a chance. Sometimes it pays works, sometimes it doesn't. You really never know what you're going to get. The higher your pick is, the better chance you're going to get a player that will contribute meaningfully. That's all it is.. a chance.

So, let's not get into the "he passed on this player, and that player..." crap. It's a baseless argument and can be said about every other GM in the NBA.
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We have to give KOC credit for being consistently good at finding talent in the 2nd round. But the truth is, aside from Deron Williams, his first round draft record is pretty damn terrible.
 
akirac73 said:
We have to give KOC credit for being consistently good at finding talent in the 2nd round. But the truth is, aside from Deron Williams, his first round draft record is pretty damn terrible.
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And Deron was Sloan's choice.

You just have to hope that either the Jazz pull off a surprising trade on draft day or that Walt Perrin has really done his homework right and the Jazz get a gamer at pick 9.
 
Just for kicks, I checked on how many former Jazz draft picks are still in the league - 13, just enough for a full team. Without researching how many draftees from other teams are in the league, I'd say that makes us pretty average at drafting, and with our historically late draft positioning, maybe we even rate above-average. If we reunited all our old picks, our depth chart would look something like this:

PG: D Williams, Mo Williams, Maynor
SG: Brewer, DeShawn Stevenson
SF: CJ Miles, Pavlovic
PF: AK, Millsap, Humphries
C: Koufos, Jarron Collins, Nazr Mohammed.
 
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