Hampton seems fine to me. It’s pick #27. I just want them to take a guy with upside.
We could’ve had him with pick 39, and if not, I felt there were better options than him with a more modern flavor
Ouch. That’s why you don’t trade until you’re on the clock. Not sure what the hurry was to make the deal early today.
IMO the jazz had tunnel vision, they wanted him and knew they could get him in the first since everyone called him a second rounder. This just proves the jazz don’t understand how to be creative in the draft. I mean they got pistol whipped by the Knicks of all teams.
Seriously? That is super embarrassing.
Why were we so eager to make that move early?
I wish I had an answer. I guess it’s every jazzfanz lot in life to suffer in agony
Grade the draft.
F -
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I give it a G. They don’t deserve a real letter grade for this **** up
They just drafted another Ostertag in the year 2020. Some things just never change, I guess...
Ostertag was a better ft shooter. Lol
I’m ready for new management.
Please god all I want for Christmas is new management
I cannot put into words what a sloppy puddle of diarrhea tonight is. I’m in complete awe.
Ironically I cleaned up a floor that had diarrhea on it last night. Lol. It was a sign of things to come.
7’7” wingspan, 41 inch vertical, 270 and played his senior season at age 20. Four year college player and just turned 21 this fall. Okongwu and Udoka were both drafted to be rim running, rebounding, rim protectors. Udoka is better and only a year older. Bigger, longer, more athletic. Jazz got a guy at 27 who is better than the 6th pick in the draft,
He’s younger than usual and hasn’t played basketball all his life. Centers take longer to develop. He won’t be ready.
Huh? Can’t share the floor with Rudy? He wasn’t drafted to do that. He was drafted to be a backup to Rudy which the jazz desperately need. Stupid to say he can’t pass. As far as shooting and dribbling, Rudy can’t do those things and he’s carved out a nice place in the league.
He was drafted to be a rim runner, finisher, defender and rebounder and he’s the best guy in the draft at doing those things.
You don’t reach for a backup center who by all accounts was a second round talent in the first. If this was the guy they really wanted we should’ve traded down again gained more assets. We are a small market team and can’t afford to reach like that for a guy who will be relegated to 15 min a night for the entire time here in Utah. So, if he does develop into a starting caliber center we can’t take advantage of that. It was wrong and unjustifiable to pick him where we did.
Bright side - I actually expect Udoka to be a solid backup big (maybe not immediately, but at some point).
Yay
If they used the 38th pick on him it would be much less bad, but I'd still be scratching my head.
There were better center options at that point sadly.
Dudes not just a dunker, but a legit post game/threat. The #'s are there for context.
Too bad we don’t run the offense through the post and won’t as long as Rudy is our center
This was the year to draft a four year guy who can step right in and be better than the guy he replaced. That’s exactly what the jazz did. Udoka should have been a lottery pick.
Lmao. You are a relic pushing for a relic
You don’t draft him for his post ability- you draft him to do what Rudy does.
Assuming he can do that, but there were more pressing needs than a backup roll man.
Justin Zanik and Dave Morway are describing Udoka like he's the next Shaq--like he's so big, so athletic and so powerful that he's basically a cheat code.
Then why wasn’t he picked #1. How did 26 other teams miss that and why weren’t the other three teams trading up to get him as he quote on quote slid in the draft. Probably because he’s not a cheat code.
The entire league is moving away from big guys who can’t shoot- so Rudy? Right?
Rudy is truely elite at what he does. And basically the longest player the league has ever seen which helps with lobs and things like that. He averaged 15 points last year
alright. I think I’ve seen all I need to here.
