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Following potential 2015 draftees

karl malone said:
Regarding Turner: I see him as 1 of the most underrated prospects in this draft & possibly even the 2nd best big man due to his 2 way potential. He isn't without risk, but in a class full of high risk/high reward prospects, he is worth it (imo). My main concerns are potential injury problems & lack of quickness/explosiveness, but his unique combination of defensive ability & shooting range far outweighs any risk that he brings. I agree that he is not a perfect fit for this team, but getting him at #12 would be a major steal. I don't expect him to drop out of the top 10 & wouldn't give up significant assets in order to acquire him (as I don't see him as a great fit alongside Gobert), but I think he has the potential to be a top 5 player in this draft class. The recent video of his workouts show that he is willing to put in the effort necessary in order to improve on his weaknesses, & while it may take longer for him to put it all together, injuries are the only reason I can see it not happening. He has the character, length, defensive ability, & long-term potential that teams look for. Pending his physical evaluations, I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up being drafted much higher than he's currently expected to be.
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I agree with this. Turner is a huge target to throw the ball to, and his ability to hit jumpers from 15 feet, either facing or turning, should be a legit offensive weapon. Plus he'll block shots, rebound and eat space defensively. He just needs to work on his body, no different from Hassan Whiteside or Rudy Gobert. He probably isn't a banger inside, but his shooting touch is for real.
 
mellow said:
The 3-4 tweener, play making, stretch 4 who can guard on the perimeter and interior and switch on every screen. Should be easy to find, go get him DOL.

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Well, if Looney can play, he'd be a candidate. Dekker, Portis, Johnson maybe. I'm not sure on Lyles given some defensive limitations.
 
Looney really was a perimeter player in high school... lots of ball handling and mobility shown off in this game. Worth a look for you draftee fanatics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCdP8dNc-WE
 
fishonjazz said:
This is about what I think too. A lot of my opinions (and many other posters as well im sure) are based off of highlight videos and the opinions of media, scouts, and jazzfanz posters. Im 100% sure that he watches more games than I do. I mean my hell, gets paid to watch and research sports. I have a real job and aint got time to watch a bunch of college games.

Guaranteed that locke watches more bball, college or pro, than 90% of the posters on jazzfanz. Again, he gets paid to watch sports. Even if he says he doesn't like the college game, its still his job to watch them anyways.

Having said that, I don't like listening to him. His mannerisms and voice simply rub me the wrong way.
At times he is good (I loved listening to him during the game right after hot rod died. He nailed it. Was entertaining, emotional, and professional) but mostly I just miss hot rod.
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No, it's his job to watch NBA basketball. Nothing about his job says anything about college basketball. His whole morning podcast thing is entirely his own hobby, not something he is paid/told to do. He says he likes doing researching the college prospects because it helps him be familiar with them once they start in the NBA so he has some knowledge of rookies on other teams.
 
Cy said:
No, it's his job to watch NBA basketball. Nothing about his job says anything about college basketball. His whole morning podcast thing is entirely his own hobby, not something he is paid/told to do. He says he likes doing researching the college prospects because it helps him be familiar with them once they start in the NBA so he has some knowledge of rookies on other teams.
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But it is his job to know as much as possible about nba players. When talking about nba players, often their college careers can come up in a discussion and where they played.

I know that if I was Locke I would feel like watch college ball was part of my job even if it's not part of the job description.

If you were to read the job description for my current job and then actually watched me at work, you would see me doing alot of things that go above and beyond my job duties that still relate to my job..... Because I want to be considered good at my job by my bosses.


Eh maybe your right and he hardly watches any college ball. I know I would if I was in his position though
 
He's said in his podcasts that he hates college basketball because the quality is really bad and he doesn't watch it. He watches specific prospect when the season ends so he'd do draft scouting videos for the ones in our range. He started off with Kelly Oubre, and has done one of Devin Booker. From what I remember he watches 2-3 games of each and does a video with whatever he's seen in those games as patterns... With Kaminsky he started crapping on him and making somewhat definitive statements about his prospect even before he started watching him and the danger of that is that you open yourself to a serious case of confirmation bias. When you go on radio shows, when you start tweeting around and podcasting how "risky" of a pick Kaminsky is then you end up having to justify that opinion with something more than "he's a senior, and was bad in his first two years" and the result is doubling down on his initial uninformed pronouncements with mind-boggling tweets like "Kaminsky is a ball-stoper", "Kaminsky doesn't move the ball", etc.
 
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