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mellow said:
I think Hood is a little...soft. Here are a couple of examples of games he played in, but had to be taken out. IIRC, there were others.

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I don't want this to sound critical of Rodney, I really enjoy the Kid adn hope he is a Jazzman for a long time, but the jazz need to plan a roster that accounts for Hood's little injuries.
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Be critical all you want. I would point out the difference between soft and injury prone. Some of the biggest players have to sit out game for quarters or half. Like LeBron and his leg cramps.

I see what you are saying but I do not think it needs to be something planed for. There are bigger fish to fry.
 
Another tweet, retweeted by by JodyJennesy, down plays the accident as minor. Left a scratch down the passenger door but leaves the impression everyone is fine.
 
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homeytennis said:
I thought we were supposed to post links. Anyway doctors generally don't do a scope for "prevention" on a normal joint. The scope itself provides a severe trauma to the joint that takes awhile to heal. I know Kobe had a lot of these done during his career and we will see how well he is walking at 50.
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You used kobe as your example. Dude was a model of health for 99% of his career.
 
Stoked said:
Hood played 79 games last year. I am not overly worried about him being injury prone. Burks might be a legit concern. Either way another wing is needed.
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Is that joe ingles into music I hear?
 
So, can we call Burks injury prone yet? I know he will be back, but the car he is riding in gets hit and run as well? Poor guy.

We still need a starting wing.
 
I heard the Jazz felt terrible for Alec, so to cheer him up Randy Rigby took him to the Bees game.

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colton said:
Luther Wright and Kirk Snyder spring to mind.
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Both guys were picked #18 and #16 respectively in drafts where nobody of note was drafted after them. Blowing a top 3 pick on Enes Kanter (who later forced his way out via trade) when Klay Thompson or Kawhi Leonard were still on the board to be paired with Gordon Hayward at the wings, will likely go down as the worst draft pick the Jazz have made for a long time to come.
 
Ellis269 said:
Both guys were picked #18 and #16 respectively in drafts where nobody of note was drafted after them. Blowing a top 3 pick on Enes Kanter (who later forced his way out via trade) when Klay Thompson or Kawhi Leonard were still on the board to be paired with Gordon Hayward at the wings, will likely go down as the worst draft pick the Jazz have made for a long time to come.
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I don't know. I think Kanter was a consensus top 3 pick. I can imagine the outcry from the fans and media if we had used that pick on Thompson or Leonard. I like Burks, but the blown pick there was Burks over Leonard. I wanted Leonard bad and was yelling at KOC.
 
I am glad AB is getting healthy. We all know that getting a healthy Alec Burks back is our biggest offseason acquisition.
 
My2Cents said:
I don't know. I think Kanter was a consensus top 3 pick. I can imagine the outcry from the fans and media if we had used that pick on Thompson or Leonard. I like Burks, but the blown pick there was Burks over Leonard. I wanted Leonard bad and was yelling at KOC.
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I don't disagree. Kanter was (mostly) the consensus top 3 pick that the Jazz were expected to take. Doesn't diminish the fact that it was a bad pick. The Jazz can't afford to blow top 3 picks - regardless of what draft it is. IMO, they'd have been better off NOT moving into the top 3 and just sitting tight at whatever Brooklyn's original spot was and taking Thompson or Walker.
 
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