Jackpotting Around -Tony Jones Edition

[Flc]

I’ve been saving this all week to listen to while cleaning the house today. Can’t wait.

 

[gomretat]

I actually think Lindsey was a great basketball mind. You don’t find Mitchell, Rudy, and Ingles at such value and not be pretty good. But painters are gonna paint and he had some real stinkers too.

Lindsey did some great things and everyone that paints for long enough has stinkers.

 

[gomretat]

I still think the Udoka pick wasnt that bad on paper. The dude was a monster his last year at Kansas and he fit the system perfectly. He was absolutely massive and had a 40'' vertical (minus a few inches because he probably cheated the standing reach) It just seemed like he didnt really like basketball at all. No idea how much of that came through in the interview process. Did they just ignore it and draft him on his advanced stats/crazy tools?

He was a great fit for the system if you were building your scheme around Rudy's strengths and weaknesses. He was a legit back up option that didnt kill us without changing schemes. If it had panned out, that had more value than drafting a starter in some other positions. It obviously didnt work but I never had a problem with the logic behind it. I know I was in the very small minority.

 

[Losing Interest]

Lindsey did some great things and everyone that paints for long enough has stinkers.

Sorry!! I liked a lot of what Lindsey did but selecting Udoka over Desmond Bane had to be one of the worst misses. Udoka may have had a monster final year in college but Bane had a solid 4 years. He shot 38% from 3 his freshman year. He followed that up with 46%, 42% & 44%. He was also a good size for a guard which the Jazz needed at the time.