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homeytennis

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I saw a blurb that the Hornets are not going to make a qualifying offer to Frank Kaminsky. He was the 9th player taken in the 2015 draft the same draft the Jazz drafted Trey Lyles. This might be a player the Jazz could use as a backup. That draft looks like it was filled with horrible players. I think I counted five first round picks that have been waived by their original team.
 
homeytennis said:
I saw a blurb that the Hornets are not going to make a qualifying offer to Frank Kaminsky. He was the 9th player taken in the 2015 draft the same draft the Jazz drafted Trey Lyles. This might be a player the Jazz could use as a backup. That draft looks like it was filled with horrible players. I think I counted five first round picks that have been waived by their original team.
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Should come cheap and could fill a need.
 
Would love to see Frank Jackson on this team. So much better than Javari Parker. But he isn't the Frank we were talking about, is he?
 
Eenie-Meenie said:
If we could get him on the cheap, why not. He is a good shooter, a good stretch-4, and good team player.
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oh he is a center completely. He is way to slow footed to play PF. Hell he is to slow footed to play much center.

I am suprised that he has been in this league 3 to 4 years and still has average foot work. He doesn't use his hips enough and his post moves and ends up taking small steps.
 
Xthren said:
oh he is a center completely. He is way to slow footed to play PF. Hell he is to slow footed to play much center.

I am suprised that he has been in this league 3 to 4 years and still has average foot work. He doesn't use his hips enough and his post moves and ends up taking small steps.
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I haven't seen him play a lot but what I saw I didn't notice. Is he slower than Kanter?
 
Eenie-Meenie said:
I haven't seen him play a lot but what I saw I didn't notice. Is he slower than Kanter?
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much slower. Kanter rotates his hips well so that allows him to create space on his spin moves, He gets that leg out in from on him. Kanter is also a bull and very strong. He plays with contact.

Kaminsky seems to avoid contact and his hips don't rotate well so on his spin move his leg doesn't get out in front but goes the side. Kaminsky should focus on being a face up big and take players off the dribble instead of posting up. His spin move is decent when he is on the move but from a stationary position in the post to slow. His up an under does remind me some of Todd Fuller
 
The Thriller said:
I don’t think he’s that slow. He’s a lot faster than Kanter.

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I like you a lot thriller but that was not a good video to show that he is not slow. Almost all of the highlights were him shooting the 3 ball. the one drive was decent but it was from a face up position. Also is you notice that he has a tendency to stand around when he is not involved in the play?
 
Don't get me wrong as a back up I would not complain if he was signed but he is not worth more then the min maybe the bi annual (which the jazz don't have) in value. (Just because he is a big and bigs seems to get over paid)
 
Xthren said:
I like you a lot thriller but that was not a good video to show that he is not slow. Almost all of the highlights were him shooting the 3 ball. the one drive was decent but it was from a face up position. Also is you notice that he has a tendency to stand around when he is not involved in the play?
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I’m not advocating a stance on whether we should sign him. But just from that 3 min video it’s pretty easy to see that he moves more like Pau Gasol or Jerebko (pre injury) tall, lurpy, and relatively light on his feet rather than Kanters slow, plopping, powerful steps.

Kanter moves a lot like boozer to me. Slow but every once in a while explosive, especially on offense. Once moving impossible to stop, so they’re charge call risks. While Kaminsky and Gasol are fairly quick and light but easily knocked around by bigger and stronger defenders.

I don’t know if he can play more than 10-15 mins a game seeing how he’s too small to play at the Center and probably not athletic enough to play significant mins at the power forward.
 
Xthren said:
much slower. Kanter rotates his hips well so that allows him to create space on his spin moves, He gets that leg out in from on him. Kanter is also a bull and very strong. He plays with contact.

Kaminsky seems to avoid contact and his hips don't rotate well so on his spin move his leg doesn't get out in front but goes the side. Kaminsky should focus on being a face up big and take players off the dribble instead of posting up. His spin move is decent when he is on the move but from a stationary position in the post to slow. His up an under does remind me some of Todd Fuller
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But he is a good outside shooter, something that none of our bigs are.
 
I’m gonna throw out a name that seems to make no sense given our needs. I don’t think he’d be that expensive but hear me out.

Deandre Jordan. If we opted out of Faves and signed him to a 2/20, we’d could use our remaining 7M on Jamychael Green and the room exception on Caruso.

We’d have 48 minutes of intimidation. Jordan improved infinitely last year from the FT line. He’d be insurance for Gobert. And I think for about 4-6 minutes a game, we could play he and Gobert together with three of our best shooters (Ingles, O’Neale and someone else) on the floor. I think Jordan’s quick enough on the perimeter to defend 4’s and Gobert would be behind him if he’s not.

Mainly, we’d be getting a really good player at a reasonable price, have insurance for Gobert, have a major asset at the deadline that we could trade, and improve our depth.

Conley-Caruso
Mitchell-Exum
Ingles-O’Neale
Green-Niang
Gobert-Jordan

If possible, we could also re-up Sef for additional stretch 4/leadership/depth.

With Green, Ingles, O’Neale, and Sef, I think we’d be fine at the 4.
 
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