Here's Walt Perrin's interview for 1280:
-"we look for how players react to being in SLC, how they react to the other players and the coaches and even the ball boys. We want to make sure they can be acclimated to our culture... and that's besides the athletic stuff we are looking at"
-"we really love it when the players show something we never expected play-wise"
-most important things at combine - physicals, second most important - meetings, third - athletic testing
-"we need to get better shooting, Depending on what DL does in FA and if we lose someone(Favs?) we can use deeper bench".
-big surprises with personality in interviews(both positive and negative) don't happen a lot(about a couple every year), we usually have good feel and intel on the players before they come to the meeting
-on meetings about the prospects, DL would go around the room ask for opinions from everybody but not show his hand. He doesn't want to influence the opinions in the room.
-the draft is pretty deep... really deep in the top 8-10. And you can get some good players in the top 30... maybe even in the second round.
-meetings and conversations about moving up or down in the draft start after the combine, this includes who we are targeting and what's the cost/compensation
-our staff has gotten a pretty good reputation around the league and this makes scheduling workouts even with players out of our range much easier(Mitchell). It's still tough, but it has gotten a bit easier over the last several years. He also said that even when the agents of players projected to go much higher than we are at, refuse the workout the sentiment is much more in the realm of "we would really really love for him to come to the Jazz and if you had a pick this high we would have come for sure, but we have to allocate the time for teams that are more likely to be able to pick him"
-player that has impressed him most in a workout - Mitchell and Gobert from the last 5-6 years... He also said David Lee had a great workout and was going harder at the end of the practice than at the beginning and it was very impressive because of the altitude
