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Following Potential 2018 Draftees

For a while my top 3 choices have been Huerter, Okobo and Troy Brown. The past few weeks I've been thinking Huerter was the most likely to fall to us at 21, but now I'm starting to think he's the least likely of the 3 to still be there when we pick.
 
Comparing Josh Okogie to Miles Bridges, Okogie had more blocks, more steals, more FT attempts, a better 3-pt %, and otherwise comparable shooting numbers playing as a guard on a much crappier team at Ga. Tech.

He gives up 2 inches and 10 lbs to Bridges, but has 3.5" more wingspan and he's a markedly quicker in the open floor. I think you can play Okogie at the 3 and do just as well. If instead of asking Okogie to carve up defenses with his dribble you let him slash from the wing, I think he'll be an effective player.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
Miles isn't that good and didn't get any better from frosh to soph season.
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Hmm I disagree. He looked a lot more polished and improved his FT% from like 68% to 85%. I just think he'd be the perfect jack-of-all-trades guy. Great athlete, can shoot, versatile on defense, high bball IQ. I think Ingles is the perfect mentor for him too and I think he has a very high floor.
 
zyzz said:
Hmm I disagree. He looked a lot more polished and improved his FT% from like 68% to 85%. I just think he'd be the perfect jack-of-all-trades guy. Great athlete, can shoot, versatile on defense, high bball IQ. I think Ingles is the perfect mentor for him too and I think he has a very high floor.
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Went from 39% to 36% three point. 49% to 46% FGs.

Very willing to admit i could be wrong on him. Just never liked what i saw of him at MSU. Don't see him being an efficient shooter or reliable defender. Ball stopper.
 
Catchall said:
Comparing Josh Okogie to Miles Bridges, Okogie had more blocks, more steals, more FT attempts, a better 3-pt %, and otherwise comparable shooting numbers playing as a guard on a much crappier team at Ga. Tech.

He gives up 2 inches and 10 lbs to Bridges, but has 3.5" more wingspan and he's a markedly quicker in the open floor. I think you can play Okogie at the 3 and do just as well. If instead of asking Okogie to carve up defenses with his dribble you let him slash from the wing, I think he'll be an effective player.
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Just love Okogie. Perrin's comments on him were glowing. #fingerscrossed
 
seattlejazzfan said:
Went from 39% to 36% three point. 49% to 46% FGs.

Very willing to admit i could be wrong on him. Just never liked what i saw of him at MSU. Don't see him being an efficient shooter or reliable defender. Ball stopper.
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I think Miles Bridges is the Caron Butler of this draft. He's not as big as Butler, but is more athletic. He'll score 18 ppg and knock down open shots, but I'm not sure he can be relied upon to do much else.
 
Once upon a time I brought up Miles Bridges here back when he was still rated a 4* recruit. Just cuz his dunks are so spectacular I wanted to show em off...

He's crazy for not just going 1-and-done tho, that MSU team with all that talent was pretty underwhelming, which is nearly an impossible thing to do with a big like JJJ....

I kinda feel like all Miles Bridges related posts should have dunk highlights so here's one of my favorites. Miles Bridges has definitely thrown down some of the best dunks i've ever seen watching a game. He's got this Gerald Green way about him as a dunker. And if you're really being honest Gerald Green's body of work dunking in NBA games is SPECTACULAR...

 
I feel like Izzo is taking most of the heat for them underperforming. I didn't watch enough of them to know if that's justified though. Seems to be the popular opinion anyway.
 


Lol I wonder if the Kings are smokescreening everyone or if they really hate Luka. The internet scouting amateurs think that it's a smokescreen because they generally don't like Bagley and because Vivek's son posted the pic of Luka at dinner with Vlade/Vivek.
 
zyzz said:


Lol I wonder if the Kings are smokescreening everyone or if they really hate Luka. The internet scouting amateurs think that it's a smokescreen because they generally don't like Bagley and because Vivek's son posted the pic of Luka at dinner with Vlade/Vivek.
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Obviously the Kings wanted to find the new 'DeMarcus' and start that whole process all over again. Bagley is another big who doesn't play defense right?
 
https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/...ight-trade-the-jazz-try-to-strike-gold-again/

“We certainly like the talent available where we are at,” Lindsey said. “But we will have conversations throughout the week, and those conversations, we anticipate will be more in-depth as the draft gets closer. We think where we’re at, there are gifted players. But, we are not aware of how high we can get on draft night.”
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Perrin told The Tribune — without naming names — that there are players on the board who the Jazz would try to make a move for, if available.
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Projected lottery picks that could fall include Miles Bridges, the athletic forward from Michigan State. The Jazz have worked out Boston College’s Jerome Robinson and Oregon’s Troy Brown, but both have seen their stock rise to where the Jazz may have to pull a trade in order to draft them. Alabama’s Collin Sexton would fit well with Mitchell in a future backcourt because of his athleticism, but Sexton is projected to be drafted in the top 10.
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zyzz said:
I feel like Izzo is taking most of the heat for them underperforming. I didn't watch enough of them to know if that's justified though. Seems to be the popular opinion anyway.
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Oh they were a trainwreck, it's justified. that was EASILY Izzo's most talented roster too anyone who says otherwise is a fool. Tactically what Izzo was doing was unsound, and his rotations were just as bad as his tactics, and the way I see it he was defiant and ignorant until their final moment, and his calculated gambles backfired a la Stannis Baratheon's attack on the Boltons.

Watching them in their final moments force the ball to Josh Langford for contested three's summed it up perfectly. It was like watching a disarmed boxer who's afraid to throw their best punch. For Bridges to return for that was flabbergasting.

For a team that talented to lose to Syracuse is a borderline disgrace...
 
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ONE LOVE said:
Obviously the Kings wanted to find the new 'DeMarcus' and start that whole process all over again. Bagley is another big who doesn't play defense right?
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Bagley will almost certainly be the pick if the Kings stay at 2. He actually could lead them in scoring as a rookie........... And Rebounding... why not? If he hits the ground running they can dump Zach Randolph and just take the training wheels off right away.

His fit defensively at Duke was a major issue, he's got plenty of room to improve.. And it's not like the Kings have any stalwart defensive PF's that he's going to be any downgrade from, Skal, Z-Bo, and it remains to be seen what Harry Giles does but reports sound promising.

Call me crazy but I would actually trade #21 for Giles.
 
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