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Not everyone, but teams are usually not looking for that type of player with the 5th pick in a strong draft. Especially when it is their first top-5 pick in 10 years.

So you want our next Royce O'Neale.

Well, for what it's worth your description of Ace Bailey really fits Dirk in his rookie year when he lived off low% mid-range jumpers, had abysmally low assists and played horrible defense. "When the season finally started, Nowitzki struggled. Played as a power forward by coach Don Nelson, the...

Kinda like drafting Vince Carter over Dirk Nowitzki.

I don't think anyone can reliable predict how good a player can be when the guy is just 18 and his only college season was interrupted by an injury and he is not a freak athlete.

He can end up being really good or really bad. Or just average. Kasparas is 18 yo, he played just one season in college and had a lingering injury.

Quite interesting results we having so far: the grades run from B+ to F without any obvious clustering. It looks like there is a wide, wide disagreement about how well Ainge has been drafting for the Jazz.

Personally, I think Ainge earned a solid "B" so far: only Cody Williams looks worse than players drafted immediately after. 5 out of 6 picks look very solid given the available options and that is pretty rare. Looking back, Ainge really did not have any great/very good players to choose from.

Soon Ainge and his team will have to make their 2025 draft selections. I know it is early but lets look at how well Ainge drafted for the Jazz so far as he already drafted 6 players who played at least a season for the Jazz. I will list 4 players drafted right after each of the Jazz draft pick...

Having endured the last seasons of the Jazz I really like Edgecombe: his defense is superb and he is much better than Tre or Ace at understanding the game on both ends and anticipating the action. He is also a much better and willing passer. But at the end of the day he is a SF who desperately...

Where are you getting this from? Lauri looks to me as being slightly below average on defense. Do you have any stats to show that "he was one of the worst defenders in the league last year"?

I don't think that folks on this board fully realize how injury-prone Lauri was so far in his career, which is supposed to be his healthier years. Everyvbody likes to make jokes about Street Clothes AD, or Glass AD. But Lauri since he came into the league missed more games than Anthony Davis: he...

To be fair as a Suns fan you can buy a ticket and watch the all-time-great Kevin Durant playing on your team. Booker is also a great and memorable player. The Jazz now are completely unwatchable with the greatly regressed one-time All Star Markkanen as the best attraction. The Jazz are trying to...

That's true. I would still defend Whaley as the worst pick in the Jazz history though. And, given that the Jazz picked in the lottery only 9 times in their history, being the worst lottery pick is not such a big accomplishment. I mean, the 3rd best player that the Jazz drafted in the lottery...

What?! This is a deliberate attempt to erase the greatness of the legendary Robert Whaley. The Jazz drafted him at the ripe age of 23 after the illustrious college career that included 2 years of community college and 2 years at the NAIA Division II schools (where in his junior year he - as a...

So, can you give an example of that type of player who is successful? Because I went through all 3-point volume shooters for this season and could find only two like that: Malik Beasley and Buddy Hield. All the rest are either good defenders, good playmakers or can easily penetrate and finish...

Of course it is worse now: we were so excited about all of those endless picks we got (and the vets we could trade for more picks!) but so far they turned into Keyonte, Brice, Filipowski and Collier. There is no sure future starter among all of them. And the future MN/CLE picks don't look to be...

Is Tre that different from a taller Beasley or Cam Thomas? Because you are usually getting players like them outside of the lottery. I have not watched Tre closely so can anyone tell me what would make him better than those two guys?

To all guys talking about getting very high picks for Laurie, Collins etc. - we will not have the hottest commodity on the market this summer. Giannis will probably change teams, Boston may try shipping out Porzingis, White or Brown in the wake of Tatum's injury, Zion and Durant could be on the...

that 25% translates to 4-16. Just for comparison, Kessler started his NBA career by shooting 5-18, which is 28%. We have our sharp-shooting Maluach at home!