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Following Potential 2020 draftees

Desmond Bane, a 6'6", 215-lb senior guard from TCU, whom I'd never heard of. Shot 42% from 3pt. Looks like he'll be pretty effective with NBA spacing. Uses his size and strength to bully his way to the rim. Great value in the 2nd round.

 
Catchall said:
Desmond Bane, a 6'6", 215-lb senior guard from TCU, whom I'd never heard of. Shot 42% from 3pt. Looks like he'll be pretty effective with NBA spacing. Uses his size and strength to bully his way to the rim. Great value in the 2nd round.

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Desmond Bane was an unranked recruit!! TCU was the only "Big" school who believed in him enough to offer..

Now he's their 1st player ever to make the Big-12 1st team. Still just 21, turns 22 around when the draft would normally occur.


TCU should be fun next year with Chuck O'Bannon and RJ Nembhard X-ferring in. The big guy they have Kevin Samuel should have a very nice senior year. They're super invested in trying to ramp up recruiting in a major way by 2021, so its kind of a delicate situation..
 
If the season resumes, and the Jazz play 5 more regular-season games, I hope they lose 3 of them and we can slip by OKC and Miami in the draft order. There are 22 guys that I'd feel good about drafting.

If our main targets are gone, I'd consider taking a flyer on Aleksej Pokusevski, who reminds me a bit of a young Keith Van Horn at Utah.



 
In this weird year of weird years a blurb bubbled up yesterday that Justian Jessup a 2 guard lead his team in blocked shots the last two years. This is the guy that broke Jimmer's record for three point shots made in the Mountain West Conference. I think he and his college teammate RJ Williams would be worth an undrafted free agent look along with Sam Merrill of Utah State, Yoeli Childs of BYU, the little guard from Weber and Utah's best player. There might be someone who could frolick with the Stars.
 
This is going to be an interesting draft, especially since our roster spots are pretty much filled and the pre-draft process could be altered unless they push the draft back.
 
kabenac said:
This is going to be an interesting draft, especially since our roster spots are pretty much filled and the pre-draft process could be altered unless they push the draft back.
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I think the draft process will get pushed back if the season resumes in Las Vegas. I could see the Jazz targeting a guard in this draft, given that Mike Conley expires in a year and we could lose Jordan Clarkson. This is a guard-heavy draft, and a few good ones will fall.
 
Bane looks REALLY good but he has an awful wingspan and shaky standing reach. 6’4” and 8’4”. That said, Fred VanVleet has a 6’1.5” wingspan and he’s been a very good pro. And Bane looks like he plays bigger than his size, has solid burst and finishes really
nicely at or around the rim. He also shot 42.5% or higher from 3 each of the last three years, and has solid rebound and assist numbers including a 26% assist% this year.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Bane looks REALLY good but he has an awful wingspan and shaky standing reach. 6’4” and 8’4”. That said, Fred VanVleet has a 6’1.5” wingspan and he’s been a very good pro. And Bane looks like he plays bigger than his size, has solid burst and finishes really
nicely at or around the rim. He also shot 42.5% or higher from 3 each of the last three years, and has solid rebound and assist numbers including a 26% assist% this year.
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DWill had an 8'2" standing reach.
 
Immanuel Quickley, a soph at UK, shot 42.8% from 3pt and over 92% at the foul line. Yet another guard in a deep class of guards. I wouldn't be shocked to see him sneak into the end of the first round.



 
Catchall said:
If the season resumes, and the Jazz play 5 more regular-season games, I hope they lose 3 of them and we can slip by OKC and Miami in the draft order. There are 22 guys that I'd feel good about drafting.

If our main targets are gone, I'd consider taking a flyer on Aleksej Pokusevski, who reminds me a bit of a young Keith Van Horn at Utah.



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The clip where he's dribbling it past halfcourt and puts it behind his back is saucy, he's got some good body control for a player that size/age for sure...
 
TBH I'm all for Utah taking Pokusevki. I've always advocated drafting another 7footer here with Rudy and that kid fits the bill.


What really is the risk? other than obviously he provides pretty much no substantial short term upside for the team..

there's obviously some backside risk too if he turns out good how much are players like this gonna get offered on the market? For some reason I think of the massive overpay on the Jon Leurer contract....

but really his deal would be up and restricted after Bojan's deal so it handcuffs in a way, if things work out..

HE could present utah with a dynamic look and at the end of the 1st in this draft thats a homerun..
 
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