Recent content by Ferguson_Mellochill

Jazz are a young team with young players, some of whom are still projects. Player development is the most important thing the Jazz can be doing right now. I'd expect it's going to come up in a lot of threads one way or another. OP is correct that a lot of the player development is based on the...

He's showing some signs that he might play a Royce O'Neal-type role for a team, but he's got a long way to go. He's got to keep developing physically and get to the point where he's really challenging shots at the rim, owning his space on rebounds and pushing ball handlers back at the point of...

Jazz need some defensive playmaking. I'm not sure they actually have any right now.

Cody Williams, post-up threat.

Refs have to be exhausted. They're calling fouls on the Jazz almost every Mavs possession.

Keyonte gets buckets. It's great.

Jazz aren't going to close the gap they way they're rebounding. Resting Nurkic is a big-league a tank move.

Here's a Talkathon statistical comparison of Tounde and V.J. Edgecombe so far. Comparable steals, blocks, fouls, FT%, PER, ORTG, DRTG. https://www.tankathon.com/players/compare?players=tounde-yessoufou--v-j-edgecombe

ATL

I wish I had your optimism. I'm trying to predict who the Jazz will take at #6 or #7.

Rebounding is a real problem when Nurkic or Kessler aren't carrying that load.

Yeah, it depends on where we're drafting ultimately. Obi Toppin was considered fairly old entering the draft. Yaxel is 1.5 years older than that.

Yaxel's old for a draftee, but the Jazz have to take a hard look at him. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j9tevspX9k

The Jazz have been playing him at the 3 for three years, whether it's next to John Collins or Kyle Filipowski.

The weak spot on the Jazz's young roster right now is PF. It's the Filipowski/Hendricks rotation. It's so bad that Kyle Anderson gives us a real boost when he plays. The Jazz can move Lauri up to the 4 if they want to, but he's really a guy you want on the perimeter. At the present moment the...