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I am not convinced that the best way to develop young players is to send them out to be slaughtered game after game without a core of solid vets to provide mentoring and stability. Plus, assuming you do hit on a core of youngsters capable of forming a competitive nucleus, without a strong...

I said earlier that I'd refrain from offering my opinions on college players since I don't watch the college game. However, I'm going to break this pledge by saying that IF the Jazz draft Kon at 5, I'll rent my clothes and cover my head with ashes. I watched him during the tournament, and...

No, Jazz need THE guy, not guys. We tanked in the hope of getting a transformative player. If there's a player the Jazz think is this player, or close to it, and may be there at 5 but perhaps less likely to be there at 6, why take the risk for yet another prospect to add the to six prospects we...

Interviewers have an unearned and irrational confidence in their ability to discern character, performance, etc. from personal interviews. Anyone who thinks s/he can accurately and consistently "read" people in interviews is self-deluded. Here's one source on the topic...

I haven't seen anyone so determined to die on a certain hill since Custer and the Little Big Horn.

Are "that's what she said" references appropriate here?

Reading through the comparisons offered by other posters, the difference between the two appears more marginal than immeasurable. (The play on words would have been that the two were so similar that the differences aren't really that material, thus "immeasurable.") You seem to adhere to a...

I'm all for offering opinions on draft prospects. It's what makes this fun. I don't watch or care about college b-ball, so I try to avoid offering completely uninformed opinions on draft prospects. I only note in passing the irrational confidence people have about different prospects while...

I can't decide whether this is a tongue-in-cheek play on words or you're being serious. If the former, Bravo! If the later, WHAT?

So, a typical BYU player?

I'd argue instead that most fans want to watch competitive, meaningful basketball over an 82 games season with hope of making a deep post-season run. Basketball is an entertainment product, and people who consume it want to be entertained. It's true that the Jazz continue to sell out games, but...

Well said.

You realize that this quite feasibly means an indeterminate period of multiple years of non-competitive, non-playoff basketball? As I previously indicated, it's not unlikely that this stretches to 7 years (more or less) all told. You're willing to endure that for WHAT, precisely? What's the...

That would be the second tear down over only a three-year time period. You don't think that's a bit excessive? So the thinking seems to be, "The tear down didn't work the first time, so let's tear it down again!" If that doesn't work after three years, do we tear it down yet again? Another...

Yes, plenty of vets who are held out for extended periods of time for spurious reasons and on a team that is actively trying to lose. It seems to be me to be a sub-optimal environment to evaluate a player's potential to be a solid, contributing role player on a quality, winning team. But, I was...

It's not an either or. I definitely think the FO is making this type of assessment, or trying to. It's not all about developing stars. It can't be, teams need role players as much as they need stars, as the Suns, Lakers and other have discovered to their detriments and OKC has discovered to its...

Strawter, and even Braun, are good examples of the need to build a supporting cast of not great but serviceable rotation players around a core of focal points. Part of the problem of judging our youth has been that they've been thrust into roles beyond their ability (at present at least) to...

Wow, that's quite the take after hearing from so many people for so long how great this draft class is supposed to be. Wasn't that the narrative pretty much beginning with last year's draft (i.e., this is a bad draft class but next year's is boffo), or am I missing something? You may well be...