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Just woke up (over here in Asia). THT getting a DNP because Hardy got the tank message from Ainge?

I hope Preston can carve out an NBA niche (I'll always hope for the best for all Jazz players). But he came out of college with the primary weakness of athleticism and that's just hard to fix. Didn't Trent Forrest block his first floater attempt yesterday, providing evidence of the type of...

Just curious -- how do we interpret Derrick White in light of this shooting guru stuff? (big jump up in 3 after leaving Spurs, where he was mediocre for several years)

How can they say this about their hometown guy?

Maybe. However, that's not quite my view. I can't be sure my memory is correct. But for Exum, it was only a a fall of 1, I think. I don't think there was any way he was going above Wiggins, Parker, and Embiid (though there were questions about the latter's health). I do think Gordon slid above...

Shouldn't have believed me. :oops: Just went back and rewatched that part of the game. He didn't go out and come quickly back in at that point. But he did play longer than what I though you initially said. He went out not after 4 and a half minutes (and he went out after Markannen had already...

Pretty sure that's not correct. I didn't watch in real time, and I had read your initial post, and so was watching carefully at that point when I did go back to watch it. He did indeed go out quickly in the first quarter, but then was back in very quickly (and missed a 3, ruining his perfect...

Yeah, it was the picking up of new things, the grasp of what the game is about, the understanding of/skill at certain techniques, and just generally the ability to run a few tests (maybe the proprioception test would have been worth having him do, haha ...) that we missed out in in the evaluation.

Yeah, I know they felt comfortable enough to go with him at that point (though Keyonte apparently almost overtook him), but I'm wondering if just putting him in a gym and asking him to do some things would have heightened the sense that he is a project. Maybe they already fully knew and were...

That was because of an injury worry. Can't remember which beat writer tweeted it, but there were quick/temporary concerns that Sexton had tweaked something. If you noticed, he was back into the game within a minute when they realized that he was OK.

Apologies if this has been discussed before: Wasn't Hendricks one of the guys we were unable to work out in person before the draft? If that's the case, do you think the Jazz evaluation on him would have differed going into the draft if they had gotten a more up-close look?

Miles? I'd not be totally surprised. But it doesn't fit the no-chatter characteristic. There was at least one rumor/report that the Jazz had inquired about him.

If for a media person: 1) How much do Jazz employees tell you about their draft board (or draft priorities generally) both before and after the draft? If they are talking, why do you think they are talking? 2) How much of what you know about the Jazz (that fans would like to know) is "on the...

I could be wrong (and please provide the receipts if I am), but I don't think there was any of us who were saying right after the DM trade, "damn, a Lauri/Gobert duo would have been so great if we had just kept Gobert."

Surprising (after having had Fontecchio for a year and a half) that we don't have any Italians here who can authoritatively give us the answer on pronunciation.

Signed up twice. Still haven't received an email.

I think there's a lot of underestimating (among fans, maybe among players, too) just how fragile we were before the trade. I'm thinking especially that Hardy had figured out how to get everyone in exactly their right role and to get the whole to equal more than the "sum of the parts." We...

Once we hit our stride this season, we were basically playing two separate 5-man squads much of the time. The substitutions patterns (other than perhaps closing games on occasion) were remarkably stable. We had very few injuries and were able to form cohesion with those squads with rotation...

THT -- +/- king ;)

Can't have two reluctant shooters in the starting lineup, I guess.