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Following Potential 2025 Draftees

Bodhi said:
This is my fav time of draft season where you sprinkle a positive comment about 64 prospects so you can bump it 6 years later.

That's not sarcasm. I genuinely think its a hilarious bit and I see you, you ole motor boating son of a bitch.
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I've done it for like 3 players: Yang, Riley, and Fleming.

I guess I did it for Kasparas early, but I swore off him like 1 to 2 months ago
 
KqWIN said:
Oh….I would have rather had a James Harden comp lol
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He's the worst though because you will directly push back on something with him and rather than actually trying to respond he will subtweet generally. I have no idea how he has people that actually follow him and subscribe to his stuff. He's pretty rough.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
He's the worst though because you will directly push back on something with him and rather than actually trying to respond he will subtweet generally. I have no idea how he has people that actually follow him and subscribe to his stuff. He's pretty rough.
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I’m pretty sure that he’s one of the few SLCDunk guys that made me swear off that site. Even as a very dumb high school kid I knew that place was insufferable.
 
YoungJefe said:
Competitiveness, team chemistry, versatility, guys that defend
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That’s a good list, but you forgot “unselfishness/team player” – crucial to winning a championship. We saw what happened to the Cavs when they threw away their team play with Mitchell’s hero ball in their games against the Pacers.
 
stitches said:
It seems like every single year we have some very strong draft takes after the finals that are very specific to what just transpired. And they are usually different to the takes and lessons taken just the year before. This should come to tell you... there are many different ways to win in this league and the way you win in the future very well might be slightly or significantly different than the way the current champions won their rings... I feel like one of the constants that you can say about pretty much every championship team is - great players playing really hard... competitiveness. It's almost self-evident, but it's surprising how often we miss to emphasize that last simple bit.
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With this title in particular, people are going to have hot takes because it will definitely decide whether you can win like Indiana. Whatever that means. What I hate about the whole “can you win a championship with X” style of discussions is that we act as if alternative outcomes had zero percent chance of happening. If IND loses, it will doom them as if they had no chance and they might as well give up and tank. If they win, it will some how make them the perfect model for team building.
 
KqWIN said:
I’m pretty sure that he’s one of the few SLCDunk guys that made me swear off that site. Even as a very dumb high school kid I knew that place was insufferable.
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He will be loud wrong... like the loudest wrong anyone could ever possibly be.... and then look back and say "I knew it all along and look how smart I am". I narrowed it down to either this is his schtick and I shouldn't take the bait or that he might be somewhat special and I am being mean.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
He will be loud wrong... like the loudest wrong anyone could ever possibly be.... and then look back and say "I knew it all along and look how smart I am". I narrowed it down to either this is his schtick and I shouldn't take the bait or that he might be somewhat special and I am being mean.
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It’s one of the reasons why I swore off Jazz twitter as one of the worst places on the internet. And I still feel that way haha. But I couldn’t resist draft twitter. That is also an insufferable place, but some entertaining/good takes mixed in.
 
Coach Ellis said:
I’m going to laugh my *** off if the whole offseason has been about debating, arguing and stressing out over the whole VJ vs. Tre vs. Ace vs. Kon vs. Fears debate. . . only to have the Jazz trade up to #2 and draft Dylan Harper.

I’m not going to rule out a Lauri to the Spurs deal that swaps 2 for 5 plus other stuff.
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Ah, Jazzfanz uninimity of happiness! Then Harper comes in and stinks up the joint in Summer League and everyone is yet again on deathwatch.
 
KqWIN said:
With this title in particular, people are going to have hot takes because it will definitely decide whether you can win like Indiana. Whatever that means. What I hate about the whole “can you win a championship with X” style of discussions is that we act as if alternative outcomes had zero percent chance of happening. If IND loses, it will doom them as if they had no chance and they might as well give up and tank. If they win, it will some how make them the perfect model for team building.
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I kind of feel like the actual perfect model for winning in small markets like us is what Presti has been doing for close to two decades now with OKac and of course if OKC win I will be milking this for a while :D
 
stitches said:
I kind of feel like the actual perfect model for winning in small markets like us is what Presti has been doing for close to two decades now with OKac and of course if OKC win I will be milking this for a while :D
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Honestly, AA's answer to how to build a team is boring but correct. You just have to keep making the right decision over and over again. No plan is going to work without a sequence of good decisions and of course a lot of luck. The Pacers tried to sign Ayton. The Raptors tried to trade Lowry to the Knicks. You need to be good, but also it's better to be lucky than good :)
 
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