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Yes, I thought about DeRozan as well, so I checked his stats prior to starting this thread. DeRozan is 24.5 now. He played as a 20 PPG scorer and the indisputable leader of the team since the second half of the last season when he was still 23.

In a couple of days. He has been in the league for 4 years. He really improved his rebounding and passing, but his FG% declined every year. So, is he what it is right now or does he still has a potential to get significantly better? To be honest, I do not remember any great wing player who...

It is too bad that the Mavs players in 2011 did not have the opportunity to read this wise post and, in their ignorance, defeated the mythical (and healthy) LeBron in 6 games. Ditto for the 2013 Spurs who were a lucky tip and a desperation shot away from beating the same LeBron in 6 games. Oh...

We don't have to look at the championship teams: there were to few of them to see the trends and much of that stuff happened a while ago and may not be relevant in the current NBA. Lets look at this year contenders (Miami, Indiana, San Antonio, Oklahoma, Clippers, and Houston. Only two teams...

So how exactly this "ONLY way to win a title" worked out for Celtics, Cleveland, Charlotte and Orlando? I mean, for those teams that actually drafted the majority of the stars that you mentioned?

There is no point in comparing the drafts of the mid-90s with the drafts of the late 2000s: in the 90s most of the players entered the draft as 22-year-olds who played 4 years in college and were well known. Later the teams started swinging wildly at the raw 18/19 year olds, producing such high...

But what makes those three certain stars? Looking back, the common predictions about the future of the players in the draft proved to be wrong more often than right. We do not have to go far but our own Marvin, who received serious considerations as a first pick and was drafted second by the...

I would much ather have the 7th pick that was hard earned, with our players fighting for the wins every game and growing in the process then the 4th pick obtained by deliberate tanking, fantom injuries and wink-wink communications from the front office to the team players.

We all know the draft reality: there are 5 certain future stars in the 2014 draft and the talent drops sharply afterwards. And, since the Jazz seem to be much more likely to draft in the dreaded 6-10 range, they will waste an once-in-generation opportunity to get a star and will be doomed to...

Because the Jazz tries to copy the Spurs and Thunder, not the Sixers or Minnesota.

I was at the game. Favors was very passive and pouty, Jefferson and Marvin invisible and Hayward looked tired and disinterested. The only positives were composed and unflappable as usual Burke (btw, he was creating nice shots for himself several of them just barely did not go in - he will be...

And yes, in this game in Minnesota when Kanter is supposedly "produced", Kanter was -20, Love had an almost career night, while Gobert was +3.

Thank God Rudy is not putting up numbers even remotely close to Kanter's. Here are Kanter's numbers: his PER is 15.7, his opponent's production 23.2. It means that every player going against Kanter is putting the numbers on the Griffin/Aldridge level. Here is another number produced by Kanter...

Memphis cannot trade to us any picks for 2014 and 2015, even the second-rounders. They do not have any bad contracts. They do not have any players that we may be interested in (Kosta Koufus, anyone?). In short, Memphis has nothing to offer to the Jazz, which makes the chances of any trade almost...

Did Harden and Bledsoe hear about this theory of yours?

Ecxcuse me, but are you talking about the 2013 draft as the evidence that the NBA is getting smarter? A.k.a the Bennett-Porter draft?

I just have a feeling that many posters who are dead set on getting the top-5 pick at any cost are now secretly hoping for an injury bug to bite the Jazz hard. So I want them to come out into the open and reveal the identities of their voodoo dolls.

Well, I listened to many folks here saying that this draft is the only chance for the Jazz to assemble a contender. Good teams do not get high picks. Bad teams do, but beeing bad they do not have enough quality players to surround the superstar that they got and he eventually leaves to pursue...

Our young core seems to have gelled and turned the corner. They started winning a lot of games. Lets face it: if we want a high draft pick it is not enough to trade Marvin or RJ -the only sure way to get a few extra losses is for one of our 5 core guys to have a serious, season-ending injury...

I think I finally understood the logic behind Corbin's decision on who starts and how many minutes each player gets. The main goal: this season is not about wins/losses but about testing what our young players can do if they are asked to be one of the first offensive option - so that they can...