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share your current thoughts about whether Taylor Hendricks is an NBA player

My concern for both him and Cody is that GLeague lifers like McGriff the Crime dog look better than both at the moment. I'm sure if a dumb guy like me notices this, other front offices and our front office will too. That being said the clock has not ticked zero on either one.
 
I think that will still need to wait for him to play 100 games and maybe wait a little more because of the injury.

He doesn’t have a natural bbiq but I still think he will shoot it well enough. And the playing hard thing needs to come along. I would leave him i the g league until around the all-star break.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
I've always compared his role to that of Dorian Finney-Smith, a big 3D wing who guards and shoots 3s, but is limited with the ball. Hendricks' size gave him more presence at the rim on both ends than DFS. Right now, he's still in the process of recovering his movement. I think he'll get there, but it might take the rest of the season and the summer.

In other words, my expectations were never super high for him, and I think he can get his career back on track.
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DFS could defend the perimeter though
 
I still think Hendricks can make it as a third big type of role player. What I'm most worried about is the motor (same as Cody Williams, really). But coming off an injury like that is tough not only physically but mentally. Hope he pulls it off because I was really excited after his rookie year.
 
I think Hendricks may eventually become an NBA player, but his timeline is way too long for it to ever be with the Jazz given how low upside he is and the sheer amount of guys the team has. I could see him having a Kris Dunn like career path.
 
He definitely put on too much weight this offseason. He’s lost a ton of quickness and that’s pretty much a prerequisite for him making a positive impact defensively.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
I think Hendricks may eventually become an NBA player, but his timeline is way too long for it to ever be with the Jazz given how low upside he is and the sheer amount of guys the team has. I could see him having a Kris Dunn like career path.
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Why... our runway is as long as any team's.
 
NUMBERICA said:
He definitely put on too much weight this offseason. He’s lost a ton of quickness and that’s pretty much a prerequisite for him making a positive impact defensively.
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I'm hoping that changes during a season. It wasn't bad weight but he does not have his legs yet imo. If he has relatively good health this season I still think he has starter upside and is definitely an NBA player. I think we are being wildly impatient given the injury he sustained but injuries have crushed careers before.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I'm hoping that changes during a season. It wasn't bad weight but he does not have his legs yet imo. If he has relatively good health this season I still think he has starter upside and is definitely an NBA player. I think we are being wildly impatient given the injury he sustained but injuries have crushed careers before.
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Either way, I have no idea what playing in the G League - or not playing at all - is supposed to do for him.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Either way, I have no idea what playing in the G League - or not playing at all - is supposed to do for him.
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Hoping it was more a hamstring rehab assignment. I think he plays with the Varsity team tonight. I'd rather have G League than DNP-CD... but yeah there is no reason for him not to take like all of Love's minutes and a couple of Lauri's so we don't run him into the ground.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
We have 85 billion young guys on our roster and have four picks in the next two years, he's at least 4-5 years away and has the upside of a bench big man. There's no reason to stick with him.
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If dude can stay healthy some of these posts are gonna be hilarious to look back at.
 
I hope it works out. He was getting blown past by every single player on the perimeter. That, and the combination of him shooting so poorly, made him DNP and now in the g league.

All and all, it his up to him. There is a realm where his leg is so jacked, he'll never be laterally able to defend.

What I hope he does (and cody) is take it really seriously going forward. They are on the outside looking in now. I would be hitting the gym every single day, making sure everyone knee about it, while shooting hundred of shots from all over.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
We can't keep all the young guys. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.

So yeah, Hendricks may turn into an NBA player at some point, but most likely that won't happen on the Jazz.
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Sure... I think Cody far and away is the first I'd let go. We may not have a pick this year so the conversation should probably wait for a year. As a rookie Taylor was playable in a "this is a fine player to have as a rotational wing/big" way. I think by end of season he could be close to or better than he was as a rookie and next year you'd see a jump. Like yall saw how bad Key was last year right? Should we have thrown in the towel last season when he was years away?
 
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