Favors Flave
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So question, would you take Robinson if you had the chance? If you do, you would have to trade Sap. Also, 1 of Favors, Kanter and Robinson would be on the bench and not be a starter.
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Probably not because if we have a chance to get him that means we are picking in the top 5. Either Miller or Barnes would still be on the board.
This. Not only are Miller and Barnes likely to be as good, or better, than TRob, but they're also a definite need.
Not sure how someone surpasses their potential.Obviously Millsap always had the potential to play the way he is.
PKM--put any stock into what MKG is saying. We want all of these players in dangitt!
https://basketball.realgm.com/wiret...ntends_To_Stay_At_Kentucky_Beyond_This_Season
https://basketball.realgm.com/wiret...ntends_To_Stay_At_Kentucky_Beyond_This_Season
Yes. In fact, Shabazz Muhammed was/is waiting to see if MKG (and others) leave before committing to UK. Yesterday, Calipari was showing everyone involved how the team will play if MKG and Lamb returns and 'Bazz were to join the team. There's a lot of smoke about MKG returning. Cal is telling him to leave, but MKG looks at Calipari as real father figure and is leaning (quite heavily, actually) toward spending another year in college.
Weezur
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Anybody with ESPN INSIDER?
This look like an interesting article...someone decode it!
https://insider.espn.go.com/nba/blog?name=nba_draft&id=7624352&_slug_=nba-volatility-top-draft-nba-execs-asking-anthony-davis&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba%2fblog%3fname%3dnba_draft%26id%3d7624352%26_slug_%3dnba-volatility-top-draft-nba-execs-asking-anthony-davis
This look like an interesting article...someone decode it!
https://insider.espn.go.com/nba/blog?name=nba_draft&id=7624352&_slug_=nba-volatility-top-draft-nba-execs-asking-anthony-davis&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba%2fblog%3fname%3dnba_draft%26id%3d7624352%26_slug_%3dnba-volatility-top-draft-nba-execs-asking-anthony-davis
There are plenty of backups available in free agency generally, and as it stands, if the Jazz end up keeping Millsap into another contract (certainly what I'm hoping), there won't be a ton of minutes available for a 4th big. Anyone would be lucky to have the career that Millsap's had and the level he's been playing at for the past two years, so here's hoping he does stay.
But I guess you have to start planning for the possibility that Millsap moves on, as well...
Miller seems like he has HUGE sleeper potential to me. He's obviously still not 100% physically, and he's certainly not developed as a man 100%. When he gets his leg back, gets some real confidence, and learns and grows with the right team he could be an absolute monster.
Besides, who else are you going to take at 5? Sullinger? Gross. Robinson? Another big...? No. Harrison Barnes? Is he really a better prospect? Perry 'Paper Tiger' Jones? Michael-Kidd Brewer?
In my mind, there's a drop-off and crapshoot after Davis and Drummond almost all the way out of the lottery, IMO. The Jazz just don't need more big prospects (right now) and the PG field is really weak (the top PG might not even be a PG).
I've said it before and will say it again; if the Jazz get Miller, then the Jazz had a great draft. Whether he busts or not.
@chadfordinsider Will MKG skip the draft? Usually I'm skeptical, but I've been hearing this all year. Great report from @kyletucker_cj https://t.co/8GNmvHKV
orangello
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Repped. I agree with everything except maybe the Michael-Kidd Brewer part. It made me laugh but I don't necessarily believe that he will be the player that brewer is.
It's mostly a reference to his broke-*** shot, I think MKG is a more versatile - and probably better - player. But thank you.
Favors Flave
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Good to see someone who is not completely in love with MKG
jazzrule
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Fyi
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist said that he plans to stay at Kentucky beyond this season.
"I'm graduating here. I'm not going nowhere," Kidd-Gilchrist said after Saturday's game against Vanderbilt. "I'm staying at Kentucky."
When those around him chuckled, Kidd-Gilchrist added: "I'm dead serious. I don't know why y'all laughing."
Kidd-Gilchrist will have to convince John Calipari that he should stay.
“He’s got to come up with some reasons he’s coming back and convince me,” Calipari said. “Here’s why: What if he got hurt and I’m out there convincing him to come back? What if that happened? Or something happened to him that all of the sudden really hurt him and his draft-ability and his future?
“It’s hard to live with yourself, unless you’re just trying to win five more games or ‘How many games can I win before I retire?’ This is about these young people.”
Calipari said that former one-and-done stars like John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe often say to him, “Man, I wish I could have stayed three or four years.
“But there’s opportunities that arise. Just like Bill Gates, when he said, ‘You know what? I’m done with school; I’m going to chase my dreams’ and in his case, change the world. Steve Jobs did the same thing; left school and went out and changed the world.
“You have opportunities. You’ve got to look at them and figure out what’s right.”
Read more: https://basketball.realgm.com/wiret..._At_Kentucky_Beyond_This_Season#ixzz1niiZPItr
"I'm graduating here. I'm not going nowhere," Kidd-Gilchrist said after Saturday's game against Vanderbilt. "I'm staying at Kentucky."
When those around him chuckled, Kidd-Gilchrist added: "I'm dead serious. I don't know why y'all laughing."
Kidd-Gilchrist will have to convince John Calipari that he should stay.
“He’s got to come up with some reasons he’s coming back and convince me,” Calipari said. “Here’s why: What if he got hurt and I’m out there convincing him to come back? What if that happened? Or something happened to him that all of the sudden really hurt him and his draft-ability and his future?
“It’s hard to live with yourself, unless you’re just trying to win five more games or ‘How many games can I win before I retire?’ This is about these young people.”
Calipari said that former one-and-done stars like John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe often say to him, “Man, I wish I could have stayed three or four years.
“But there’s opportunities that arise. Just like Bill Gates, when he said, ‘You know what? I’m done with school; I’m going to chase my dreams’ and in his case, change the world. Steve Jobs did the same thing; left school and went out and changed the world.
“You have opportunities. You’ve got to look at them and figure out what’s right.”
Read more: https://basketball.realgm.com/wiret..._At_Kentucky_Beyond_This_Season#ixzz1niiZPItr
If we are talking potential, I agree, talking real world "most likely to pan out over Miller" I'd take Robinson, Barnes and MKG over him in the top 5. I also think Lillard and Rivers will have better careers as well.
Again, Miller has great potential but, IMO, he's the most likely to have a thread titled "Can the _________experiment end" if we draft him. Rich mans CJ Miles, IMO.
Whoa .. I've been high on Miller's talent and down on his desire/work ethic. But to say rich man's CJ is a bit harsh.
ncoloradojazz
Banned
This just shows why calapri is a scumbag. Who tells a kid not to come back to school? Calapri needs to be banned from the ncaa ASAP. If he gets hurt. Let me see thats why athletes get INSURANCE. The day calapri is banned from the ncaa or get hit by a car will be a great day for me. Scumbag all around. Education is KEY for any young person future. What happens if player a from kentucky goes pro andf get hurt his 1st year? That money aint going last forever. Calapri needs to go to nba where he cant stop being a pimp for these young kids
You're such a damn idiot. Truth is, if this read that Cal was talking MKG into staying another year, you would be calling him a scumbag for telling a kid not to go pro.
Your argument would be what if MKG got hurt, blah, blah ..
Keep hatin' .. Deron Williams is not walking through that Illini door.