I want to know why they picked your guy Burks over Kawhi. Regardless of what you

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Jun 12, 2018
3:51:02pm

cougaman All-American

think of Burks, K awhi is a top 5 NBA player that would have for great with the Jazz young core at the time.

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Gordon Chiesa was on 1280 today and they asked him who the most impressive

smokymountainrain

6/12/18 3:40pm

Holy crap. He is still working for the Jazz?

TNT

6/12/18 3:44pm

no. said he does some evaluation for nba teams, is on a lot of radio shows, etc

smokymountainrain

6/12/18 3:45pm

Ah. Makes sense

TNT

6/12/18 3:45pm

TNT has said it before and will say it again

TNT

6/12/18 3:45pm

And yes TNT is less concerned about that with current management

TNT

6/12/18 3:46pm

yeah, if they just missed on him, that is understandable, but the thought

smokymountainrain

6/12/18 3:47pm

I want to know why they picked your guy Burks over Kawhi. Regardless of what you

cougaman

6/12/18 3:51pm

Not sure how the Jazz evaluated him

TNT

6/12/18 3:52pm

kawhi couldn't shoot. that had to be the line of thinking.

smokymountainrain

6/12/18 3:52pm

To be fair, the majority of teams missed on Tony Parker. Still woulda been nice.

LiveCoug

6/12/18 3:48pm

but they didn't miss on him. rather they didn't want to pay a rookie so

smokymountainrain

6/12/18 3:49pm

Was it about paying a rookie? Or was it about a roster spot?

Eddie

6/12/18 4:17pm

well, yeah, my reason is speculation, but there is no question there was room

smokymountainrain

6/12/18 4:20pm

Well back in the day TNT was VERY anti-French. But Gobert has changed his mind

TNT

6/12/18 3:49pm

RE: Well back in the day TNT was VERY anti-French. But Gobert has changed his mind

Sea Chicken

6/12/18 3:56pm

The back-up PGs the year after drafting Lopez were John Crotty and Rusty Larue

BGRTHNUMEGO

6/12/18 3:50pm

In fairness John Crotty was REALLY good in college

TNT

6/12/18 3:51pm

oh my.

smokymountainrain

6/12/18 3:53pm

I still haven’t gotten over the Jazz passing on Parker for Lopez.

GRCoug

6/12/18 4:03pm

Useful to remember that most of Linday's picks are busts.

Plato

6/12/18 4:33pm

its the thought process i have a problem with. all GMs are going to miss.

smokymountainrain

6/12/18 5:33pm

What could've been? - Eva Longoria is probably wondering the same

braddahmike

6/12/18 5:02pm

I think it is pretty common for a team to outsmart themselves in the draft.

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