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Does D League Season Awards show Utah Jazz made mistakes?

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mellow

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NEW YORK, April 29, 2016 – Jarnell Stokes (Sioux Falls Skyforce), the 2015-16 NBA Development League Most Valuable Player, headlines the NBA D-League First Team, as voted on by the league’s 19 head coaches. Stokes is joined by Erick Green (Reno Bighorns), Vander Blue (Los Angeles D-Fenders), Alex Stepheson (Iowa Energy) and Jeff Ayres (Los Angeles). Stepheson received GATORADE Call-Ups from both the Los Angeles Clippers and Memphis Grizzlies and Ayres finished the season with the Los Angeles Clippers.


Jazz drafted Stokes with the 35th pick of the 2014 draft but traded him to Memphis.
Jazz drafted Erick Green with the 46th pick in the 2013 draft but traded him to Denver.

Just think of the D-league roster the jazz could have had...
 
No, but I must give him credit for the inspiration.

Jazz news is so scarce right now....I really need Lindsey to start his 200 player workout marathon.
 
mellow said:
No, but I must give him credit for the inspiration.

Jazz news is so scarce right now....I really need Lindsey to start his 200 player workout marathon.
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I didn't understand the drafting of Stokes and then trading him for a future 2nd. He has not been wanted by a couple of teams. The Jazz had Eric Green just before the all star break and opted to not resign him. The Jazz could have called Ayres up at any time and during the injury to the bigs that looked like a mistake. I'm willing to give the Jazz a pass on these awards.
 
homeytennis said:
I didn't understand the drafting of Stokes and then trading him for a future 2nd. He has not been wanted by a couple of teams. The Jazz had Eric Green just before the all star break and opted to not resign him. The Jazz could have called Ayres up at any time and during the injury to the bigs that looked like a mistake. I'm willing to give the Jazz a pass on these awards.
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This is what I was thinking. If they wanted any of these players, they could have called them up anytime. Or kept them when they had them.
 
Scorpjazz said:
Lol, D league awards...sigh
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I know, until the draft workouts start there just isn't much for jazzfanz. I guess I could recap Dennis Lindsey's interview, 20 minutes, 3 questions and 5,000 words of answers that didn't say anything. Parenthetically, I wish I could talk like that man.

How many days until the draft lottery?
 
mellow said:
NEW YORK, April 29, 2016 – Jarnell Stokes (Sioux Falls Skyforce), the 2015-16 NBA Development League Most Valuable Player, headlines the NBA D-League First Team, as voted on by the league’s 19 head coaches. Stokes is joined by Erick Green (Reno Bighorns), Vander Blue (Los Angeles D-Fenders), Alex Stepheson (Iowa Energy) and Jeff Ayres (Los Angeles). Stepheson received GATORADE Call-Ups from both the Los Angeles Clippers and Memphis Grizzlies and Ayres finished the season with the Los Angeles Clippers.


Jazz drafted Stokes with the 35th pick of the 2014 draft but traded him to Memphis.
Jazz drafted Erick Green with the 46th pick in the 2013 draft but traded him to Denver.

Just think of the D-league roster the jazz could have had...
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I loled. Could have bolded Ayers, too.
 
I once won the slam dunk contest in my ward ball league. OK, it was really just me and some of the neighborhood kids on an 8 foot hoop in the cul de sac, but you should have seen the sick 360 monster I slammed home. Still kind of surprised I never got that call from KOC after Lenny posted it online.
 
mellow said:
NEW YORK, April 29, 2016 – Jarnell Stokes (Sioux Falls Skyforce), the 2015-16 NBA Development League Most Valuable Player, headlines the NBA D-League First Team, as voted on by the league’s 19 head coaches. Stokes is joined by Erick Green (Reno Bighorns), Vander Blue (Los Angeles D-Fenders), Alex Stepheson (Iowa Energy) and Jeff Ayres (Los Angeles). Stepheson received GATORADE Call-Ups from both the Los Angeles Clippers and Memphis Grizzlies and Ayres finished the season with the Los Angeles Clippers.


Jazz drafted Stokes with the 35th pick of the 2014 draft but traded him to Memphis.
Jazz drafted Erick Green with the 46th pick in the 2013 draft but traded him to Denver.

Just think of the D-league roster the jazz could have had...
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It is simple. Green is too small to guard 2's and too slow to guard 1's. Stokes has a simpler problem. He is too small to guard 5's and too slow to guard 4's.

If I remember correctly Green was traded for the Neto pick.
 
Green was drafted with the pick that was traded for Gobert.

Cooley was/is better than all of these guys. I actually liked him.

The Jazz already have their 14/15th players on the roster. . . Withey and Jingles.

They need to find upgrades for Booker, Burke, Pleiss and Johnson. No point in making the depth weaker. They could have just kept lil'Sap for that. It's time to get better players to fill the roster.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
I once won the slam dunk contest in my ward ball league. OK, it was really just me and some of the neighborhood kids on an 8 foot hoop in the cul de sac, but you should have seen the sick 360 monster I slammed home. Still kind of surprised I never got that call from KOC after Lenny posted it online.
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I have it on good authority that KOC saw it. He made no small effort to convince Jerry, the Millers, and Rigby. You were voted down 2-3, and I personally think you should blame Rigby. You coulda been somebody, you coulda been a contender!
 
Jazz Spazz said:
I have it on good authority that KOC saw it. He made no small effort to convince Jerry, the Millers, and Rigby. You were voted down 2-3, and I personally think you should blame Rigby. You coulda been somebody, you coulda been a contender!
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In an ideal world the Jazz need to add depth from guys in the 8-9 man rotation from guys on playoff team if they are out there and willing to come to SLC. Guys like Ingles, Withey and CJ are fine human beings but in this business world, nice doesn't necessarily cut it.
 
mellow said:
No, but I must give him credit for the inspiration.

Jazz news is so scarce right now....I really need Lindsey to start his 200 player workout marathon.
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Maybe instead you could post Kawhi's killer dunk on OKC and stats, and something about how we passed on the obvious pick for Burks.
 
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