Following Potential 2020 draftees
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I don't know... #LockeWatch is undefeated.
2020 - Woodard???KqWIN said:
Lets see how that one goes.
I certainly would.
Doesn’t do much for me either. My semi-realistic pipe dream is Cole Anthony falling to us.
Like, in other years he’d be an obvious 2nd rounder.
Woodard too, no? I would not be a fan if we drafted him at 23.
I think his game is more suited to the NBA than college and he might pop, but I can’t see the Jazz going for him considering how many scoring guards we already have in-play.
I feel a little differently about how the Jazz should view Maledon since our guards are just not that good or willing as passers and he has intriguing size. Ingles is our best passer/floor general by a landslide and that’s not tenable long term.
Based on the stats, you probably have a point. But his physical profile is damn tempting and nothing seems broken about his game.
Like, I see no reason he couldn’t be PJ Tucker.
Precious Achiuwa was still available on the Locked On NBA exercise. Locke picked Woodard ahead of McDaniels, Maledon and Achiuwa.
I don't know ... I think that label is reserved for McDaniels this year
So you're in the draft planning room of another team. Someone asks if anyone has any intel on what the Jazz might do. You say, "internet fans think their play-by-play gives away the pick almost every year." Does your "war room" run with this?
It's kind of weird. None of the "plugged in" national media seem to be thinking the Jazz have any particular interest in Woodward.
When we heard confirmation on Grayson Allen from Tony Jones about Jazz interest in him a couple of years ago, we should have figured it must be true because previously Tony had been way down on Grayson. This year, it seems that Tony independently likes Woodard. So it's a little hard to read.
I’m not sure Achiuwa is a modern NBA player. Shot is bad, bad court awareness. The only players that get to do that are centers that do all of the big things exceptionally well and he doesn’t have the size for that.
That all changes if Achiuwa obtains sufficient perimeter skills, but non-shooting 4s are not a thing on real teams. The 32% on 3s doesn’t concern me as much as the 60% from the FT line and that his arc is all over the place.
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Sound like they had a full dinner date... interesting.
I mean, that was half tongue in cheek, half serious, but Locke has been spoiling Jazz picks for close to a decade now with incredible reliability. If the forums voted on #LockeWatch every year and released the winner as sourced information we would definitely get cred for having legitimate insiders with knowledge about the workings of the Jazz FO. With the exception of the trade years when it's been a bit more ambiguous , every single time Locke zeros in on a prospect he likes more than everybody else in the draft community it turns out it's ultimately the Jazz pick.
I don't know how I would treat such information as another team's GM, but IMO you definitely need to keep it in mind. For example lets say OKC(drafting no. 25 via Denver) loves Woodard and it would take just their second round pick to move to 22 in front of the Jazz, I would probably do it based on this information. It sounds weird, but this is not like it's a single year lucky pick. This happens damn near every single year.
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If they liked Donte Divincenzo a couple years ago, Josh Green would make sense. If the Jazz stay at #23, it probably comes down to Green and McDaniels. I still think Maledon should be in play though, as a George Hill-like combo-guard.
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There is a whole stack of players I would take ahead of Woodard--Maledon, McDaniels, Bolmaro, Reed, Flynn, Ramsey...
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Locke seriously needs to find out a better way to articulate he's appreciation of a good NBA build. Creep level through the roof!
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