Hayward- Drafted by Jazz, will get max money on his next deal.
Gobert- Drafted by Jazz after everybody else passed on him. Will get max money on his next deal.
Hood- Drafted by Jazz, and if he continues his trajectory, could get damn close to max money on his next deal.
Exum- Drafted by Jazz and by all means looks to be the right pick depending on how the knee heals.
Lyles- Drafted by Jazz and by the end of his rookie season was being discussed as possibly good enough in the future to let Favors walk/be traded.
Have there been misses? Absolutely. Go look at every teams draft picks for the last decade and compare it to Utah's. Not only that, I'm not so sure that if we draft Paul George and Indy drafts Hayward, that George is still considered to be the better player. Maybe Gordon going to the weaker Eastern Conference and avoiding the Sloan/D-Will/Corbin fiasco makes him the better player at this point?
Bottom line for me is this: I've seen enough competency from Lindsay and Quinn that I firmly believe Utah's talent evaluation and development is quickly getting up to par with the better teams in the NBA. I love Sloan as much as anybody but he coached/developed players like it was still 1990 and the game passed him by. That, and the Corbin hire set us back. I believe we're back on course, and I can live with that.