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NUMBERICA said:
WTF, what did the Jazz get from Portland? Why would the Jazz NOT get the rights to Jaiteh or Upshaw?
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Becasue they don't like them.

They got a future 2nd round pick. Probably hoping they can get Alpha Kaba or George De Paula, some of the more interesting names that withdrew from the draft.

No reason to select rights to someone you dont like at all when you just just reload the dice.
 
Tonight sucked. I ****ing hate Indiana. I remember wanting Hibbert and they grabbed him right before us. I wanted Turner - Indiana ****s me again. The one year we were ahead of them we took Hayward and they got Paul George.


Man, tonight was disappointing. What about aggregating picks to move up? Even the second round - Connaughton went 1 pick before our 42nd. Ugh. I have a headache. Someone took a dump in my brain.
 
BENTLEY said:
Tonight sucked. I ****ing hate Indiana. I remember wanting Hibbert and they grabbed him right before us. I wanted Turner - Indiana ****s me again. The one year we were ahead of them we took Hayward and they got Paul George.


Man, tonight was disappointing. What about aggregating picks to move up? Even the second round - Connaughton went 1 pick before our 42nd. Ugh. I have a headache. Someone took a dump in my brain.
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I have a feeling we would have drafted Lyles regardless of whether Turner was available. I think the FO thinks that Lyles has more skills, can pass it, can score back to the basket, is more mobile therefore a better PNR defender and has an improving shot. Shooting remember is one of the skills you can improve on in the NBA.


Just an all round better player is Lyles compared to Turner for what the Jazz needs him to do IMO.
 
ONE LOVE said:
I have a feeling we would have drafted Lyles regardless of whether Turner was available. I think the FO thinks that Lyles has more skills, can pass it, can score back to the basket, is more mobile therefore a better PNR defender and has an improving shot. Shooting remember is one of the skills you can improve on in the NBA.


Just an all round better player is Lyles compared to Turner for what the Jazz needs him to do IMO.
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Probably would've drafted him #1 overall, tbh. Best pick evar.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
Probably would've drafted him #1 overall, tbh. Best pick evar.
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I dunno I just think with his mobility, he is a better fit with Gobert and Favors (who are our long term bigs). Also the passing ability is a plus. I've seen mocks where Lyles is taken by the Jazz with Turner still on the board.. so I don't think it is outside the realm of possibility that they have Lyles > Turner on their big board.
 
DL said that since the Jazz are set at every position they had the chance to take a swing on a high risk/high reward player. That's not Lyles. That is Turner. Turner has skills that you can point to - shot blocking, jumpshooting. He plays C which the Jazz need more than a PF. What about Trevor Booker? Lyles isn't better than Booker.

I know Turner wasn't available at 12. But DL also said we had so many assets that he wanted to "aggregate" them to move up. And since we're so set at every position and our team is quite deep I don't see why DL's holding onto picks like they're gonna get him anything. Instead of aggregating the picks he just sorta throws them away. I don't know what we got for our 2nd pick we sent to Portland. And then that second round pick from the other year he just sorta gave that one away too. All this amassing of assets is amounting to nothing.
 
BENTLEY said:
DL said that since the Jazz are set at every position they had the chance to take a swing on a high risk/high reward player. That's not Lyles. That is Turner. Turner has skills that you can point to - shot blocking, jumpshooting. He plays C which the Jazz need more than a PF. What about Trevor Booker? Lyles isn't better than Booker.

I know Turner wasn't available at 12. But DL also said we had so many assets that he wanted to "aggregate" them to move up. And since we're so set at every position and our team is quite deep I don't see why DL's holding onto picks like they're gonna get him anything. Instead of aggregating the picks he just sorta throws them away. I don't know what we got for our 2nd pick we sent to Portland. And then that second round pick from the other year he just sorta gave that one away too. All this amassing of assets is amounting to nothing.
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So the Jazz got cash for the 2nd 2nd rounder, right? It's sure hard to be excited as a fan about selling picks for cash.
 
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