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How disappointed are you with Rodney Hood?

Gameface said:
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18PPG since this thread was made. shooting an unreal FG% from 3 too...

we need hood....he is vital to the growth of this team.
 
Gobert at #27 & Hood at #23, two of the biggest steals in back to back drafts. Regardless of what you think of DL, you have to give him credit. Hood is looking like a vital piece to the future of this team. The improvements that he's made over the last year & a half have been incredible.
 
karl malone said:
Gobert at #27 & Hood at #23, two of the biggest steals in back to back drafts. Regardless of what you think of DL, you have to give him credit. Hood is looking like a vital piece to the future of this team. The improvements that he's made over the last year & a half have been incredible.
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But...but...but...we are all canonizing DL way too early and he's been average at best.
 
karl malone said:
Gobert at #27 & Hood at #23, two of the biggest steals in back to back drafts. Regardless of what you think of DL, you have to give him credit. Hood is looking like a vital piece to the future of this team. The improvements that he's made over the last year & a half have been incredible.
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Huge DL fan, but he screwed up taking Burke over Antetokounmpo and letting Caroll leave. With that said, his track record in the draft is pretty dang solid. Burke (barely), Lyles and Neto all look like legitimate NBA players, Gobert is a star, Hood was a steal and Exum is an unknown with potential. That's a pretty damn solid first 3 years in his 5 year plan. Between that, keeping Hayward, Favors and Burks and then jettisoning Kanter. . . I'm happy with his effort so far.

Now he needs to prove that he can add a star. That's the most challenging thing in the NBA. Hopefully that guy is Gobert or Exum, but if he can add a starting caliber PG at the deadline, he still should have a boatload of assets and a nearly MAX salary spot to add to the core group.
 
Ellis269 said:
he screwed up taking Burke over Antetokounmpo
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I just want to say that burke was ahead of giannis on everyone's draft board
 
fishonjazz said:
I just want to say that burke was ahead of giannis on everyone's draft board
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Most consensus boards, but there were some of us who hated the idea of getting Burke. We liked the idea of going after a guy with ridiculous upside like Antetokounmpo or Schroder or Gobert. I was so disappointed that they traded up for Trey, and then equally elated when they traded up for Gobert. The Jazz needed star power and Giannis was brimming with it, even then.

In fact, I only moved Antetokounmpo up my personal board after I read several articles about the Jazz top brass scouting him in Greece personally. After looking at him closely, I loved what I saw and still contend that the Jazz should have taken him instead of reaching to fill a need at PG - especially since they were planning to tank that season.
 
Ellis269 said:
there were some of us who hated the idea of getting Burke.
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I'm one of them. I was one of the few who was not happy we picked trey. I wanted mccollum and had dennis ahead of burke too. (I did want a pg though so I was not thinking about giannis at all)

My point is that most gm's would have taken burke before giannis so it's not like DL really made a bad pick... Sometimes guys just don't pan out
 
What I love thinking about is how good he will be 2-3 years from now. He is gaining confidence guys. And he sees he can put up numbers quick in this league. He may become an alpha dog. I know that's wishful thinking. But he's been playing well enough to see it in his future.


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themanknownassting said:
What I love thinking about is how good he will be 2-3 years from now. He is gaining confidence guys. And he sees he can put up numbers quick in this league. He may become an alpha dog. I know that's wishful thinking. But he's been playing well enough to see it in his future.
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The recent comparison is to Harden without all the douchieness. That might be a best-case scenario that is highly unlikely, but he's certainly starting to assert himself more on offense AND has not been a liability on defense (minus bad fouls) like Harden often is. Even if he can develop into the uber-confident alpha that Jimmy Butler has become would be perfectly fine for the Jazz. A #1 option on offense is really the biggest missing piece that they have.
 
What I see from Hood is a taller Rip Hamilton without the damn facemask. That is a good player. That is a piece on a championship team.
 
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