That was so frustrating even at the time. Like we didn’t know Jaden McDaniels was gonna be a badass, but everyone knew that Dok was a bad pick for us.
I remember when Quin and Dennis Lindsey left a bunch of Jazz beat journalists finally published stories about how toxic it was working at Jazz HQ. One of the things that stood out to me is that Quin and most of the organization was begging to draft wings and guards, but Dennis Lindsey insisted on drafting yet another offensively limited rim-protecting big man.
IAmJBear
This is one of the biggest “what-ifs” for me and my friends when we talk Jazz, if we’d gotten Bane or McDaniels there instead of Dok. Might have been enough to give us a real shot at title contention? Who knows for sure, but I do know it hurts pretty bad to look back at haha
dharris515
If I recall right, the thinking behind this was the Jazz were really bad any time Rudy wasn’t on the floor. The teams game plan revolved around him so heavily that everyone was lost without him. They were trying to get a viable Rudy-lite to fill the minutes effectively.
AdventurousChard788
Well, if you watch Jazz games on League Pass, we are apparently so irrelevant that the NBA video editing team seems to think he is still in Utah. Weird seeing some Dok highlights during a game break the year after he already left, but ok.
Missing on a late first rounder isn’t great but it is also pretty common. This draft class is one of the weirdest ever. At least we didn’t burn the #2 overall pick on Wiseman, yikes.
Rayces
Damn man next time just let us forget and live our lives in peace lol
DantaeMay
I would’ve been happy with Elijah Hughes who we drafted later that night.. Udoka was so bad and fragile.
MtHoodMagic
There wasnt a single person on Reddit that was into this pick when it happened. At best folks were like “he’s a project, hopefully he can develop quick” nope.
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That was so frustrating even at the time. Like we didn’t know Jaden McDaniels was gonna be a badass, but everyone knew that Dok was a bad pick for us.
I remember when Quin and Dennis Lindsey left a bunch of Jazz beat journalists finally published stories about how toxic it was working at Jazz HQ. One of the things that stood out to me is that Quin and most of the organization was begging to draft wings and guards, but Dennis Lindsey insisted on drafting yet another offensively limited rim-protecting big man.
This is one of the biggest “what-ifs” for me and my friends when we talk Jazz, if we’d gotten Bane or McDaniels there instead of Dok. Might have been enough to give us a real shot at title contention? Who knows for sure, but I do know it hurts pretty bad to look back at haha
If I recall right, the thinking behind this was the Jazz were really bad any time Rudy wasn’t on the floor. The teams game plan revolved around him so heavily that everyone was lost without him. They were trying to get a viable Rudy-lite to fill the minutes effectively.
Well, if you watch Jazz games on League Pass, we are apparently so irrelevant that the NBA video editing team seems to think he is still in Utah. Weird seeing some Dok highlights during a game break the year after he already left, but ok.
Missing on a late first rounder isn’t great but it is also pretty common. This draft class is one of the weirdest ever. At least we didn’t burn the #2 overall pick on Wiseman, yikes.
Damn man next time just let us forget and live our lives in peace lol
I would’ve been happy with Elijah Hughes who we drafted later that night.. Udoka was so bad and fragile.
There wasnt a single person on Reddit that was into this pick when it happened. At best folks were like “he’s a project, hopefully he can develop quick” nope.
“Hindsight is 2020”
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