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Why did the Kelly Tripucka experiment fail in Utah?

Bodhi said:
Ah so Sloan wasn’t the coach for every Jazz player ever?
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Fun fact. Maravich scored 31 in one of the Jazz first wins in Utah in 1979. They beat the Bulls coached by Jerry Sloan. Never forgave Nissalke for benching him that year. Didn't even play him on Pete Maravich poster night.
 
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It was a system issue with both Dantley and Tripucka. Dantley and Layden didnt get a long and his style of play made it difficult to develop Malone. Puke didn't play great defense but was a a good shooter and really helped the offense flow. He was a guy that was better with more touches and the offense didnt give him that. To this day I am a fan of both of those guys. AD was a legit all star.
 
Hearsky said:
The Jazz were seriously and rightly concerned about AD corrupting Karl. AD was telling Karl to save his energy on defense and make business decisions. AD was doing his best to drive a wedge between Karl and the organization.


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While you’re certainly not wrong, I do have a few counter points:

- AD was certainly a malcontent, but he wasn’t too much of a problem for the Jazz prior to Karl Malone’s arrival. He was threatened by Karl and probably had zero issues with giving the young player some bad advice. I put a lot of this on Layden for not hammering home a “Me and Karl” type of attitude with AD as opposed to “Me or Karl”. For what it’s worth, I don’t think AD’s advice about not playing defense was going to effect a guy who had one of the best work ethics in professional sports history.

- I think AD is one of the first examples of the Larry Miller philosophy of trying to field a team of 12 boy scouts. Larry had a lot of issues with AD, as evidenced by how long he held out before finally giving in and retiring AD’s number. Simply put, Larry didn’t like AD and the second the Jazz knew what they had in Karl, he was out the door.

I think what made Phil Jackson one of the winningest coaches is NBA history was his ability to manage egos and personalities inside his locker room. He was an absolute master at it. If Layden had a little bit of that in him, I think he could have gotten more buy-in from AD and the team woulda been an juggernaut.

From what I’ve heard, AD was a flat out ******* and maybe he was too much of a malcontent in the locker room but he did manage to carve out a 15 year NBA career while playing on some pretty good teams. I’d love to have seen what the Jazz could have been had they kept him.
 
Jazzman12 said:
While you’re certainly not wrong, I do have a few counter points:

- AD was certainly a malcontent, but he wasn’t too much of a problem for the Jazz prior to Karl Malone’s arrival. He was threatened by Karl and probably had zero issues with giving the young player some bad advice. I put a lot of this on Layden for not hammering home a “Me and Karl” type of attitude with AD as opposed to “Me or Karl”. For what it’s worth, I don’t think AD’s advice about not playing defense was going to effect a guy who had one of the best work ethics in professional sports history.

- I think AD is one of the first examples of the Larry Miller philosophy of trying to field a team of 12 boy scouts. Larry had a lot of issues with AD, as evidenced by how long he held out before finally giving in and retiring AD’s number. Simply put, Larry didn’t like AD and the second the Jazz knew what they had in Karl, he was out the door.

I think what made Phil Jackson one of the winningest coaches is NBA history was his ability to manage egos and personalities inside his locker room. He was an absolute master at it. If Layden had a little bit of that in him, I think he could have gotten more buy-in from AD and the team woulda been an juggernaut.

From what I’ve heard, AD was a flat out ******* and maybe he was too much of a malcontent in the locker room but he did manage to carve out a 15 year NBA career while playing on some pretty good teams. I’d love to have seen what the Jazz could have been had they kept him.
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And now he is an elementary school crossing guard.


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