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The next great talent that we develop will be the first one in a decade (Since Davis?). We are horrible at it. That's why everyone is so excited about Jones and his potential. It's just not something we are good at.

Wut?
The guy you’ve shite on, Ingram, has gotten immensely better since he got here. Hence Most Improved

We rebuilt Lonzos shot completely.

The Demps era had very little prospects to build because we moved our draft assets.

Frank Jackson was the most exciting prospect we had after Davis was established and he was a second rounder.

We have a consensus top 3 developmental coach in the most important skill in basketball.

Now that we finally have a GLeague team, it remains to be seen the full impact of player development.

Hayes however has blown EVERY chance at playing time he’s ever had.

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Posted by GOP_Tiger

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Member since Jan 2005

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Posted on 12/20/21 at 4:03 pm to ThanosIsADemocrat

Every time I engage with brmark in one of these threads, I regret it.

I only engaged about his inaccurate Ja speculation to try to stop the inevitable thread derailment, and of course, it didn't work, because all of you have to treat his crap seriously.

Now he's done it again.

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Posted by Bronc

Member since Sep 2018

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Posted on 12/20/21 at 4:13 pm to ThanosIsADemocrat

Not sure what other big men can say they came into the league and got 3 elite mentors to shadow: Derrick Favors(say what you want about his decline, but he has a great reputation as a teammate and his fundamentals were as solid as it comes), Steven Adams, and Jonas Valuncianas.

I mean the kid basically got to shadow 3 of the best big men teammates you could ask for in the league. And with Vinson on the roster basically any skill he wanted to learn he had an expert teacher at his disposal between his teammates and our coaches. Favors and Adams both experts at the fundamentals of defense and defensive communication, how to carry yourself on and off the court. Set screens, rebound, box out, do the dirty work. Val, one of the most skilled low post scorers in the game currently, who grew his game to the three point line, also an excellent rebounder. Vinson an elite shooting coach to turn him into a stretch player he claimed to have developed this offseason but we have seen little of.

Hell, BI is an incredibly skilled mid range player, Jax should be studying tape on everything BI does on the block because a lot of it is classic PF skills.

But by all accounts he's done little to none of this.

This post was edited on 12/20/21 at 4:20 pm

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