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And with the 5th pick, the Utah Jazz Selects...

With the 5th pick, the Utah Jazz selects...

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The Midnight

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OK, so now that we've secured the 4th worst spot, the most likely outcome for us is getting the 5th pick (35% chance). Let's then say that the following players are gone by the time our 5th pick comes around:

Wiggins
Jabari
Embiid
Exum

Who would you guys take next???

Randle
Gordon
Smart (meh)
Vonleh

Let's hear it

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I'm going with Randle obviously and playing him at SF:

Favors
Kanter
Randle
Hayward
Burke

#Randle is #Hungry

#tbh
 
Seems that while the highest individual pick number is 5, we would actually have a higher *combined* chance at 1-4, so WAY too early to consign ourselves #5.

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JazzFever said:
Seems that while the highest individual pick number is 5, we would actually have a higher *combined* chance at 1-4, so WAY too early to consign ourselves #5.

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Well I'm not about to start 4 different polls for positions 1-4, so I picked the higher probability and I'm sticking to it.
 
simplified odds

JazzFever said:
Seems that while the highest individual pick number is 5, we would actually have a higher *combined* chance at 1-4, so WAY too early to consign ourselves #5.
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48% (~1/2) chance at a 1-4
35% (~1/3) chance at 5
17% (~1/6) chance at 6-7
 
I go with Gordon. I love his defense, and Karl and Millsap have shown that hard work can develop an offensive game. Guy is an athletic freak who I think can become special. Randle is the safe choice though.
 
silesian said:
48% (~1/2) chance at a 1-4
35% (~1/3) chance at 5
17% (~1/6) chance at 6-7
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Yeah exactly, I'm not about to start 4 different threads with 4 different polls for each of the 1-4th pick.


Most likely scenario is 1 team jumped us and we are pushed down 1. It's also the most conservative/likely scenario so it also act as an expectation temperer for those who don't like getting their hearts broken (raises hand).
 
Biggs said:
I go with Gordon. I love his defense, and Karl and Millsap have shown that hard work can develop an offensive game. Guy is an athletic freak who I think can become special. Randle is the safe choice though.
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Don't forget though that in that pivotal game DAL vs GSW (in which GSW won), Carisle had no choice but to leave Shawn Marion on the bench for the entire OT period (due to his offensive inability????).
 
Gordon or randle..... all depends on combine and workout results
 
Biggs said:
I go with Gordon. I love his defense, and Karl and Millsap have shown that hard work can develop an offensive game. Guy is an athletic freak who I think can become special. Randle is the safe choice though.
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I am a big Aaron Gordon fan as well, for the reasons you mentioned. I wouldn't call Randle a 'safe choice' though. I'm not buying he can play the three in the NBA at all. He can barely handle and don't think he'd be able to guard many of them. He made some jaw-dropping plays this year at Kentucky, but I can't envision where he succeeds in the NBA. He won't be able to overpower just about everyone he faces in the paint like he has up to this point.
 
Vonleh reminds me a lot of Chris Bosh. I don't love Chris Bosh. If we got Chris Bosh out of the draft I would be happy enough. But, Gordon (who I have watched a lot) reminds me a lot of Blake Griffin. He is WAY better defensively and led his team to be one of the best defensive teams in NCAA. He can't score with a jumper for the life of him, but he can use his athleticism to score plenty. Marion is not the best comparison. Griffin isn't either. But somewhere in between is likely. Is he the right player either? I don't know but Vonleh is definitely lower on my list.

We need a true 3. Wiggins and Parker both fit the role the best this year. We are due some luck after falling in lottery situations year after year. See... coin toss against Golden State pick... see getting 6th pick and having to trade up to get Deron Williams... I think that we are around 20% on coin toss situations! It's our time!
 
fishonjazz said:
Me too
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I hope we stay away from Randle. He is not super athletic, doesn't have the power or mobility of a high caliber NBA PF, (no way he can play SF in the NBA). And he gets OWNED on defense. He couldn't guard players in college. I think he may be a Boozer type on defense.
 
green said:
Randle = Millsap
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Possibly but A: millsap was an all star and fine player.

And B: i dont recall millsap being a top ten pick as a freshman out of college and taking his team to a national championship game.
 
Pick the one with the best defense, which would be Gordon, and give him a year or two to develop with a good coach. Dude is still 18 and will come up for his contract extension at 21. He can be developed into whatever we need because he is decidedly not a bonehead. I'm pretty excited because I figure that Gordon is the worst that we come up with at this point and that is a good place to be.
Be warned however that Karma says that Smart will end up the best player of the draft and half the posters here will claim retroactively that they wanted him. "I knew Embiid was a bum and really wanted Smart. Dennis must be fired!"
 
green said:
Randle = Millsap
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Isn't Randle bigger than Milsap? Wasn't the knock on Milsap always his tweener size? If you couldn't make Milsap a 3, there is no way Randle is going to be a 3. Milsap even had more 3 type skills. . .
 
framer said:
Pick the one with the best defense, which would be Gordon, and give him a year or two to develop with a good coach. Dude is still 18 and will come up for his contract extension at 21. He can be developed into whatever we need because he is decidedly not a bonehead. I'm pretty excited because I figure that Gordon is the worst that we come up with at this point and that is a good place to be.
Be warned however that Karma says that Smart will end up the best player of the draft and half the posters here will claim retroactively that they wanted him. "I knew Embiid was a bum and really wanted Smart. Dennis must be fired!"
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I should save all me "I really like Smart" posts now to guard against this. Thanks for the heads up!
 
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