2018 Pre-Draft Workouts

stitches · Post #1 » by **stitches** » Sat May 12, 2018 6:28 pm

Well, here's the thread for the Jazz pre-draft workouts. Seems like they start today with the following group:

DiVincenzo is interesting... I liked Gabriel coming out of high school but he kind of stagnated. He's still intriguing with his ability to stretch the floor.

MTJazzv3 · Post #2 » by **MTJazzv3** » Sat May 12, 2018 6:50 pm

Do you recall how many guys the Jazz brought in last year for workouts? I don't recall at all when the Jazz brought O'Neale in for a look. Is my assumption correct that these early looks are pretty much about putting a summer league roster together?

Daddy 801 · Post #3 » by **Daddy 801** » Sat May 12, 2018 7:01 pm

The fact that workouts are already happening makes me happy. This is DL’s time to find some more hidden gems.

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stitches · Post #4 » by **stitches** » Sat May 12, 2018 7:11 pm

MTJazzv3 wrote:Do you recall how many guys the Jazz brought in last year for workouts? I don't recall at all when the Jazz brought O'Neale in for a look. Is my assumption correct that these early looks are pretty much about putting a summer league roster together?

2 years ago they brought something insane like... 100+ players. I think last year they explicitly stated that they've decided to cut down and had about 70 if I'm not mistaken(still high number compared to other teams) so they can focus on quality rather than quantity. Those early ones are with players that have not yet decided whether to enter the draft or not(Gabriel, DiVincenzo) if I'm not mistaken. Some of them are draftable players(DiVincenzo for example), some are not...

About O'Neale - he participated in a vets camp with the Jazz, not pre-draft workout. he was 2 years removed from entering the draft and going undrafted when we signed him.

Daddy 801 wrote:The fact that workouts are already happening makes me happy. This is DL’s time to find some more hidden gems.

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I think those are the prospects that have not yet decided if they will stay in the draft so they want early feedback from teams, so that's good to know that the Jazz are participating in that process even with the players who are on the fence and can potentially sway a prospect or two one way or the other...

stitches · Post #5 » by **stitches** » Sat May 12, 2018 9:56 pm

Walt Perrin talking about the workout and the process as a whole:

http://www.nba.com/jazz/video/teams/jazz/2018/05/12/2091926/1526156757231-waltperrin-2091926

AingesBurner · Post #6 » by **AingesBurner** » Mon May 14, 2018 3:08 pm

I had a crazy dream we somehow traded into the top ten for Porter.

stitches · Post #7 » by **stitches** » Mon May 14, 2018 3:34 pm

GobertReport wrote:I had a crazy dream we somehow traded into the top ten for Porter.

I hope you are some sort of a undiscovered prophet. :nod:

Daddy 801 · Post #8 » by **Daddy 801** » Mon May 14, 2018 3:47 pm

stitches wrote:

Read on Twitter

Bowens hair looks like he is wearing some sort of renaissance royalty mens whig. Pretty wild.

AingesBurner · Post #9 » by **AingesBurner** » Mon May 14, 2018 4:08 pm

Daddy 801 wrote:
stitches wrote:

Read on Twitter

Bowens hair looks like he is wearing some sort of renaissance royalty mens whig. Pretty wild.

Any relation of Brian to Bruce?

KqWIN · Post #10 » by **KqWIN** » Wed May 16, 2018 9:42 pm

I’d love to get Huerter in for a workout before he makes a decision.

KqWIN · Post #11 » by **KqWIN** » Wed May 16, 2018 9:56 pm

Chandler Hutchinson reportedly has a promise somewhere from 20-30. Hmmm......

AingesBurner · Post #12 » by **AingesBurner** » Wed May 16, 2018 10:13 pm

KqWIN wrote:Chandler Hutchinson reportedly has a promise somewhere from 20-30. Hmmm......

Good size, how is his shooting? Heard it wasn't the greatest and don't most players agents leak that a player has a promise to drum up interest?

AingesBurner · Post #13 » by **AingesBurner** » Wed May 16, 2018 10:27 pm

KqWIN wrote:Chandler Hutchinson reportedly has a promise somewhere from 20-30. Hmmm......

Also if he can't gain weight then he probably is Jeremy Evans 2.0, Diop is a better choice.

stitches · Post #14 » by **stitches** » Thu May 17, 2018 6:16 am

KqWIN wrote:Chandler Hutchinson reportedly has a promise somewhere from 20-30. Hmmm......

When I watch him I get similar vibe to what I got watching Kuzma... he just looks like a basketball player, there are small things about his game that scream NBA.

sipclip · Post #15 » by **sipclip** » Thu May 17, 2018 12:21 pm

GobertReport wrote:
KqWIN wrote:Chandler Hutchinson reportedly has a promise somewhere from 20-30. Hmmm......

Also if he can't gain weight then he probably is Jeremy Evans 2.0, Diop is a better choice.

That is a truly awful comp. Chandler is just fine from a weight standpoint and is very skilled. Evans was super skinny and super athletic. Nothing similar about these guys.

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UTJazzFan_Echo1 · Post #16 » by **UTJazzFan_Echo1** » Sun May 20, 2018 12:04 am

sipclip wrote:
GobertReport wrote:
KqWIN wrote:Chandler Hutchinson reportedly has a promise somewhere from 20-30. Hmmm......

Also if he can't gain weight then he probably is Jeremy Evans 2.0, Diop is a better choice.

That is a truly awful comp. Chandler is just fine from a weight standpoint and is very skilled. Evans was super skinny and super athletic. Nothing similar about these guys.

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Ya, I agree 100%... Hutch is absolutely nothing like Jeremy Evans. Not sure what else to say about that comp... at a loss for words tbh haha.

Catchall · Post #17 » by **Catchall** » Mon May 21, 2018 9:57 pm

KqWIN wrote:Chandler Hutchinson reportedly has a promise somewhere from 20-30. Hmmm......

Supposedly Chicago at 22.

eLo · Post #18 » by **eLo** » Tue May 22, 2018 12:14 am

we gona see next season in Jazz uni Donte and Dante mind my words

but seriously DiVincenzo would be really good for this JAzz team and could contribute right away, like Thomas and Bridges

AingesBurner · Post #19 » by **AingesBurner** » Tue May 22, 2018 12:18 am

eLo wrote:we gona see next season in Jazz uni Donte and Dante mind my words but seriously DiVincenzo would be really good for this JAzz team and could contribute right away, like Thomas and Bridges

I heard Donte was pulling out of draft.

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stitches · Post #20 » by **stitches** » Tue May 22, 2018 5:12 am

Here's Walt Perrin's interview for 1280:

https://soundcloud.com/user-517702939/the-big-show-utah-jazz-insider-report-walt-perrin-vp-of-player-personnel

-"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