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seattlejazzfan said:
if the guy you take at 5 turns out to be worse than the guy you would have taken at 9. not rocket science. it happens in every draft where guys taken later are better than guys taken earlier.
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So that should stop teams from trading up to get their guy? What in the **** kind of logic is that?
 
Looks it will be Jarace or Black at 5. I think the Wiz are putting out the medical false flag on Cam, because if Utah believes Cam will be there at 9 then there is no reason to trade up for a good player like Black or Jarace. This tells me that the Jazz probably rate Black very high.
 
KqWIN said:
If you're going to drop a fake health concern, you shouldn't use a term that downplays the health concern. I don't think it accomplishes the same thing, it's just a worse and less effective way to fake out a team than saying he has a red flag. That's literally the purpose of saying yellow flag versus red flag. Like if you were trying to do the same thing with a "bad interview"....I would just say he was bad in interviews instead of saying he was mediocre in interviews to try to reverse psychology them into something worse. Like I said, it's not that serious but it's funny that this is being spun into some 200 iq attempt lol. If Cam does fall to #9, I will not assume it's because DA is a media mastermind and manipulated the teams above. I will assume that the reason he fell is because of the reported reasons he fell.
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Even if nothing after the draft actually confirms that he has any medical issue whatsoever?

Let me put it like this - I think it's possible he has medical issue and he still gets picked top 5. I also think it's possible he has no serious medical concern and he still drops to 9.
 
whatthe said:
Looks it will be Jarace or Black at 5. I think the Wiz are putting out the medical false flag on Cam, because if Utah believes Cam will be there at 9 then there is no reason to trade up for a good player like Black or Jarace. This tells me that the Jazz probably rate Black very high.
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Givony says Ausar... Detroit out here just spreading all the rumors.
 
stitches said:
Even if nothing after the draft actually confirms that he has any medical issue whatsoever?

Let me put it like this - I think it's possible he has medical issue and he still gets picked top 5. I also think it's possible he has no serious medical concern and he still drops to 9.
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I'm just saying that if he falls to #9, it gives some credence to those injury concerns. Not every injury concern ends up being a problem in the future, but it doesn't mean that it wasn't a valid concern to begin with. If he falls to #9, I'm just not gonna assume that it was due to some mastermind 200iq media manipulation and it was all a mirage. That's something Locke would say. Whatever concerns led Cam to falling (injury or not) have more weight if they actually cause him to fall.
 
I think we want Black over Jarace. So we will get 5 and try do something with Magic to get 6 and 11, for 5 and 16.

Personally, I would also try to get that Mavs pick too.

Black, Bilal, Bufkin. :) Yowzers!
 
whatthe said:
I think we want Black over Jarace. So we will get 5 and try do something with Magic to get 6 and 11, for 5 and 16.

Personally, I would also try to get that Mavs pick too.

Black, Bilal, Bufkin. :) Yowzers!
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I think we need to stay at 5 to get Black in this scenario because Orlando likes him at 6.
 
Coach Ellis said:
Danny Ainge drafted Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum top 3 in back to back drafts. . .

But instead of sitting on his hands and hoping they panned out, he also -

A.) signed 30 year old, 4x All-Star center Al Horford in free agency

B.) signed 26 year old 1x All-Star wing Gordon Hayward (whose career was derailed by a gruesome injury in his first game with the Celtics)

C.) traded for 25 year old 4x All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving

The Jazz might not have the same quality of picks that the Celtics did back in 16/17, but they are LOADED with good assets, cap space and 3 or 4 high quality, young players right now.
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And the best, most enduring players were ones he drafted. So I’m just saying let’s not be flippant about how important it is (not “lol we have a buncha picks so let’s just gamble.”)
 
seattlejazzfan said:
you're not moving up for free. do you understand the principle of cost/benefit? sure, if you could move up without giving anything up, of course you do that everyday. the question becomes whether the benefit is worth the cost. in my opinion, the answer is no.
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If the cost is a 2025 1st in a weak draft I’m all for it. We might not sniff a chance at a top-5 pick in awhile after this.
 
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