2023 Trade Rumors and Gossip Involving the Jazz
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In the end Bilal played against higher competition in higher stake games than most players in the draft. It was a small sample size, but gives me a lot more confidence than if he had only played in the French Jr. League. I think he still projects to be a role player and is still too risky at 9, but I'm personally backing off my position that he has super high bust potential.
Sam Vecenie said he would consider 16+28+Something else for #10 if he was Dallas.
DIdnt really specify what that would be, but I think that's something Utah would do pretty easily if the other thing is just one of their future picks.
DIdnt really specify what that would be, but I think that's something Utah would do pretty easily if the other thing is just one of their future picks.
It feels like historically this is where teams take swings and they almost never pan out. Teams in the lottery are looking for that guy that can put them over the top, but realistically the back end of the lottery is going to get you a rotation player, if you pick well.
Depends on which one but I’d like to keep 28 if we’re adding a future first.
Yeah, you arent drafting Bilal for his ISO game. You're drafting him because he's a high IQ defender w/ elite length/athleticism (and potentially growing) and has displayed he can play a role offensively.
I dont buy him as having a ton of bust potential given the fact he is contributing intagible/role player attributes at an early age.
Truly though that last part does not matter at all. The same could be said about so many players.
How is Bilal any more risky than Ausar Thompson?
Bilal is 1.5 years younger, more or less equals athletically, longer, and contributed to a professional team that made the Finals in a decent league.
Bilal is 1.5 years younger, more or less equals athletically, longer, and contributed to a professional team that made the Finals in a decent league.
That one certainly panned out.
David Hume
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But intellectual honesty presupposes that we do not deceive our colleagues, so if a JazzFan member assesses Coulibaly to be a proper selection at nine, given the cloudy circumstances of proper prognostication, we should not pressure that colleague into hiding their true, robust views. The Enlightenment taught us to move out of acceptance of authority and to chose reason and the cold blooded testing of empirical adequacy.
I would definitely say Ausar is more risky, but I also think he has more upside.
Orlando fans (some of them at least) seem to think that Amen Thompson is going to be available at #6, meaning that Cam Whitmore would go to Houston at #4 and Jarace Walker likely goes to Detroit at #5. Thompsons could go back-to-back at 6 and 7.
If you draft Bilal and Ausar 9/10 you can get the upside creator and the upside off-ball player.
I think if Cam goes 4 then I don’t see Detroit taking Amen at 5 so either a trade up candidate or he falls to 6.
Problem with that tandem is neither is particularly good at shooting.
Eddie Zero
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if you are swinging , picking well is not in the equation at the time you hand in the card lol
We are not drafting some high ceiling boom bust at 9 unless we also are picking 10th