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Gobert's rise to the Greatest Jazz Center of All Time!

For tonight's game:
Gobert needs a single point to pass Chad Gallagher who has a a Jazz career of 6 points and nothing else. Gobert's rebounding gives him the tie break. He probably should already be ranked ahead of Gallagher based on this.
Gobert needs a single point to pass Darryl Dawkins. Gobert's rebounds and one steal give him the edge here when the points are equal.
Gobert needs two points to pass Jeff Cook as he is already ahead in all other stats.
Gobert needs three points and a rebound, assist, steal, or block to pass William Cunningham.

The real goal right now should be Pat Cummings. Gobert needs 10 points.
 
Gobert moves to #52

I'm pulling Gobet past Chad Gallagher. Gallagher has one more point, but Gobert's 20 rebounds 3 blocks and one steal more than make up for that. In addition, with the benefit of the replay, I'm also advancing Walt Bellamy past Chad Gallagher as well, because he was just better AND had more rebounds.

Walt Bellamy moves to #53.
#54 Chad Gallagher
Points 6
Rebounds 0
Blocks 0
Steals 0
Assists 0
Creighton product Chad Gallagher was drafted in the second round of the NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns. He didn't make the squad. He was later picked up by the Jazz and played a total of three minutes spread over two games during a ten day contract in February 1993. The two notable things about Mr. Gallagher is that he retired from the NBA with a perfect shooting percentage of 3-3 at 100% and was the 1991 Missouri Valley Conference player of the year during his NCAA days.
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Gobert's current stats:

Points 9
Rebounds 32
Blocks 5
Steals 3
Assists 0 (still looking for that first assist)

We are moving him past Jeff Cook:

#52 Jeff Cook
Points 7
Rebounds 5
Blocks 0
Steals 0
Assists 0
The pride of Idaho State University, Cook had a 7 year career in the NBA with his stint with the Utah Jazz being the worst. He logged 17 minutes in 2 games with the 85-86 Utah Jazz during the regular season, but added 21 minutes in 4 games in the playoffs. He still has more points than Rudy, but those rebounds and blocks that Gobert is raking up give him the edge, although I considered ranking Cook higher based on just his mustache.
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OK, I think we can go ahead and move Gobert above Darryl Dawkins too.

#51 Darryl Dawkins
Points 6
Rebounds 5
Blocks 1
Steals 0
Assists 1
Yes he played only 4 games for the Jazz in 1987, and yes he only shot freakin' 14%, but he was Chocolate Thunder so I didn't have the heart to rank him any lower. For the next handful of years he would go on to play a handful of games for a handful of teams, but he never would drop below that 14% he efforted for the Jazz. Here is the highlight video. He did none of this for the Jazz. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7z1UY1WbE
 
Gobert is now INSIDE the top 50

#50 William Cunningham
Points 8
Rebounds 8
Blocks 0
Steals 2
Assists 1
Mr. Cunningham, a legit 6'11'' 250 undrafted out of Temple played 6 games for the Jazz, actually starting 2 in 1996. Jazz were pretty good in this timeframe, so the starts are kind of mystifying. He has the distinction of playing for 4 teams in his two year career, which is something, I guess. It appears that Mr. Cunningham now works for the NSA as any pictorial evidence of his basketball career has completely disappeared.
 
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Core4 said:
But Wright had serious musical talent. Ever hear him on the lids?
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The really sad thing is we have gotten this far along on the list and Wright hasn't appeared. He isn't even next. That tells you a lot about the sad stiffs manning the center position for the Jazz and why we should be grateful for what we have now in Kanter and Gobert.
 
framer said:
OK, I think we can go ahead and move Gobert above Darryl Dawkins too.

#51 Darryl Dawkins
Points 6
Rebounds 5
Blocks 1
Steals 0
Assists 1
Yes he played only 4 games for the Jazz in 1987, and yes he only shot freakin' 14%, but he was Chocolate Thunder so I didn't have the heart to rank him any lower. For the next handful of years he would go on to play a handful of games for a handful of teams, but he never would drop below that 14% he efforted for the Jazz. Here is the highlight video. He did none of this for the Jazz. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7z1UY1WbE
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Horrible logic man. He played for Utah in the hospice stages of his career. That's like getting a 37 year old Vince Carter and expecting him to give us an insane highlight reel dunk every night.
 
Dude played for like 3 more years AFTER he left the Jazz. I was more bagging on the 14% field goal percentage. I like Dawkins which is why I ranked him higher than he deserved.
 
framer said:
Dude played for like 3 more years AFTER he left the Jazz. I was more bagging on the 14% field goal percentage. I like Dawkins which is why I ranked him higher than he deserved.
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Maybe a year and a half in the NBA, but his career was certainly in the vegetative stages when he came en vogue to Utah.
 
The Fresh Prince said:
Maybe a year and a half in the NBA, but his career was certainly in the vegetative stages when he came en vogue to Utah.
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No doubt. I wasn't trying to run him down. He was brought in to sell tickets not for what he could contribute. After he was done here he did it elsewhere (but shot better than 14%) It amazes me that Utah was able to keep the team long enough to be successful with this type of stuff and the selling of top draft picks.
 
So here are Gobert's current Stats:
Points 14
Rebounds 41
Blocks 7
Steals 3
Assists 1
This Moves him to #48
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#49 Pat Cummings
Points 15
Rebounds 5
Blocks 0
Steals 0
Assists 0
Pat Cummings was yet another serviceable to good center to find his way to Utah at the end of his career in 1990 in order to play 4 games. The University of Cincinnati product had an 11 year career averaging about 10 and 5. He was a bit undersized to play Center and was 35 so he sure wasn't backing up the Mailman.
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So here are Gobert's current Stats:
Points 17
Rebounds 49
Blocks 7
Steals 3
Assists 1

This is now enough to put him past the absolute lowest possible real measure of Utah center draft picks Luther Wright.
#48 Luther Wright
Points 19
Rebounds 10
Blocks 2
Steals 1
Assists 1
What more is to be said about Luther Wright that hasn't been said? Drafted as a promising player out of Seton Hall University with the 18th pick (crazy that so much was expected out of an 18 pick) it turned out that Luther was pretty much insane. Also insane? the fact that Luther started 2 games out of his 15 game career. An article was written about Wright back in 2007 that I still remember to this day. Definitely worth the read if you have the time. Here is the link.
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