What to do with Taylor Hendricks year one

[Handlogten's Heros]

I just dont think that rookies generally add to defense (unless they are the elite of the elite and I just dont think Hendricks is that on D) and the position Hendricks more naturally plays is more crowded than Brice's. I just think Brice has a higher likelihood of contributing early (again, he was arguably the best offensive freshman in the nation along with Brandon Miller) and that his potential year 1 contributions are underdiscussed.

Rookies don’t generally “add” to either side of the court. You hope they develop without hurting you too much. I think Taylor will be good enough at providing some benefits while staying “out of the way” so to speak. Sensabaugh is going to be a worse defender than Taylor… if you are telling me we hand him the ball on offense in a secondary or tertiary role he’s going to hurt more than he helps on that side too… we will see.

 

[homeytennis]

I remember Karl Malone pitching a fit when the Jazz drafted Deshawn Stevenson "because he won't contribute for four or five years." These guys are one year older than DSteve was at the time.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I remember Karl Malone pitching a fit when the Jazz drafted Deshawn Stevenson "because he won't contribute for four or five years." These guys are one year older than DSteve was at the time.

Karma for Malone that DeShawn won a ring and he didnt.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I remember Karl Malone pitching a fit when the Jazz drafted Deshawn Stevenson "because he won't contribute for four or five years." These guys are one year older than DSteve was at the time.

Weird that Karl would complain about someone being too young.

 

[LogGrad98]

Karma for Malone that DeShawn won a ring and he didnt.

Yeah but was it before or after his 4th year?

 

[KqWIN]

I don't think you have to put down one or the other. Brice and Hendricks were both near the top of "NBA ready" guys in this draft. They are very different players, so depending on the context I could see arguments for either. Seems as though the FO has a different read on Hendricks though, so who knows.

 

[NAOS_pt2]

It feels JFC is about to swing wildly back into the "core4" years, where there's nothing but moaning about how Favors, Kanter, Burks, and Hayward (and then Burke) need more minutes—because they're clearly future All-Stars and paving the road to championship glory. My only question right now is when Sensabaugh has his first 50-40-90 season (and if he'll be the youngest to ever do it).

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It feels JFC is about to swing wildly back into the "core4" years, where there's nothing but moaning about how Favors, Kanter, Burks, and Hayward (and then Burke) need more minutes—because they're clearly future All-Stars and paving the road to championship glory. My only question right now is when Sensabaugh has his first 50-40-90 season (and if he'll be the youngest to ever do it).

100% this is where we are headed. Hardy is better than Corbin and we have a better young nucleus... but there will be many tears over vet playing time.

 

[KqWIN]

Complaining about the young players not playing is undefeated. We could win the chip, and there will still be people complaining about the late second round draft pick not playing lol.

 

[fishonjazz]

100% this is where we are headed. Hardy is better than Corbin and we have a better young nucleus... but there will be many tears over vet playing time.

For me it was always about who the vets were. Jamaal tinsely, old washed up richard jeffereson, and old ****** howard (josh howard i think?) all suck anyways . So if the vets suck, and you are tanking anyway, then no reason to play any of those dudes ahead of burks, kanter, favors, hayward etc.

Same with this current team. Lauri, KO, Collins, Clarkson, sexton are all vets who are still good plus we are not tanking so i doubt people will complain much if those guys get minutes over keyonte, sensabaugh, and hendricks.

Last season we had rudy gay who was obviously not going to be around for long, was often checked out, washed up, having a career worst shooting efficiency and was never gonna fetch anything in a trade so young dudes should get those minutes imo.

 

[infection]

For me it was always about who the vets were. Jamaal tinsely, old washed up richard jeffereson, and old ****** howard (josh howard i think?) all suck anyways . So if the vets suck, and you are tanking anyway, then no reason to play any of those dudes ahead of burks, kanter, favors, hayward etc.

Same with this current team. Lauri, KO, Collins, Clarkson, sexton are all vets who are still good plus we are not tanking so i doubt people will complain much if those guys get minutes over keyonte, sensabaugh, and hendricks.

Last season we had rudy gay who was obviously not going to be around for long, was often checked out, washed up, having a career worst shooting efficiency and was never gonna fetch anything in a trade so young dudes should get those minutes imo.

I’m still mad we didn’t trade Josh Howard for a second round pick. Maybe it was KOC all along who got the “no seconds please FTW” mode rolling.

 

[infection]

Also, now’s the chance to be ahead of the curve in doing massive second round pick swaps. Collect enough of those and we’ll find a couple Equate brand first rounders. Maybe even Kirkland.