Comments about ‘Utah Jazz: Team gets a closer look at Roy Hibbert’

Hey, don't give up on Johny Bryant. He is as good as some of good shooters in NBA like Eddie house and salim Staudmier.

You can bank on it! Trent Plaisted would definitely go in the first round of a city league draft. He might even go in the top 12 if the city were the size of say Ephraim or certainly Sterling.

Laugh all you want, but I know he would be there. He is that good!

I am not sure if Plaisted would be top 12 in Epraim but in Axtell he would be the number one first round pick! Wow, did this kid get bad advice or have an inflated view of his talents and this year's pool of players. Making himself available was the biggest financial mistake of his life...to date.

Plaisted should be first round pick for the JAZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So how do you improve the Jazz? What do they need to get over the top? Who do you trade? Scoring is not the problem since they were in the tops of the league in scoring so to win more games they need to make the opposing team score less and be more consistent throughout the game. Maybe an imposing center like Hibbert might be good, maybe trade up for a proven center in the free agent market.

Those safe from trade? D-Will, Okur, Boozer, AK, Korver, Almond (led D-league scoring), Brewer, Milsap, Price & Miles. All performed where assigned. Possible trade-outs? Collins (annual non-factor), Harpring (love'im, but age is there), Fesenko (coming on, but fast enough?), and Hart (what did he do for us?).

The Jazz can give me an awesome birthday present (birthday is the day of the draft) if they drat Hibbert in the first round. And picking up Ewing Jr. in the second.

OK, I buy your city league arguement, and going top twelve in an "Ephraim/Sterling" size city? Sure...


But...

now hear me out...

What if it was a "county" say the size of Fillmore, or Millard, and then compare that to Utah, or Salt Lake Caounty -- I'm thinking they late second round -- Davis, he might move up to mid second.

That's why I think that because the draft hits the whole country, for him to be taken in the second round, they are just going to have to go deeper, with more second rounds, just keep naming them "the next second round", like he might be drafted in the 35th "second round" of the day.

That's because I am a real cougar fan, and Trent's "psyche" can be thrown off a bit. He's gonna need a huge "entourage", and while I won't be traveling with him, I hope he gets the right people.

Just another case of a big tall young man with big dreams. How in the world does he think he can make it in the best league in all of basketball, when he couldn't even dominate at his position in a very average college conference? Should have got your degree first big fella. You'll need it out in the competitive world of work. What a sad mistake.

Hibbert would give the Jazz some interior defense he is a huge upgrade from Collins I think Hibbert is a great pick for the Jazz!!!

I am true BYU blue but to think that Plaisted will go first round is just plain old nuts. I seriously doubt he will even get drafted. I do think he plays ball in Europe or Asia and makes some good money, which is more than most can say about professional basketball.

Plaisted has good footwork and plays well with his back to the rim but he would have been mediocre night in and night out in other conferences. He is good, just not first round good.

I like BYU but I there is no way that Trent Plaisted is a 1st round pick. He won't be a 2nd round pick. He probably will be sign on with a team after the draft.

I hope Hibbert is around at the 23rd pick!

Johnnie Bryant will be lucky to have a couple year career oversea's. He is not even half as good as House and Staudmier... ---and that's not saying a lot---

a twin from stanford they got Collins. Hopefully they won't draft Lopez. Plaisted should've stayed at Provo because now he is Moscow bound.

You can laugh and make fun of him all you want, but come fall he will be making more money then you will see in a life time playing either in the NBA or in Europe.

I dont think Plaisted is good enough to make it in the NBA but I have seen mock drafts where he goes late in the first round to first half of second round. Even if he rides the bench his whole career, he is still going to be worth millions of dollars when he is done. I wouldnt mind being in that position.

Hey, I take pride in my ability to get winded on my walk to the fridge and get beatin off the dribble by 14 year olds in church ball. It elevates my soul when I put icy hot on my back as I sit on a conference call in the office under life draining flourescent lighting. Good luck to Plaisted, he'll get to play somewhere and play better than 99.**% of the people on planet earth, maybe not at the NBA level, but good enough to get paid for it. I'd rather be shooting jumpers than chewing on an office phone. As for the Jazz, Hear! Hear! To another lathargic, unmotivated 7 footer who irritates all fans with his great potential, and less than mediocre results.

Let's see, he's 7'2" not from Kansas and not named Greg Osterdud. I'm listening. Sounds good to me!

I'm not so sure about Robin Lopez. The last time we put all our eggs in a basket named Lopez (as in Raul) it didn't work out so swell for us.

People love to compare a person's college career with what he could do in college. How is JJ Reddick career going? I can guarantee you Hibbert will not be available come the 23rd pick. I don't have a lot of faith in the competency of NBA GM's, but a legit 7'2" center who can score and defend. He SHOULD go in the top 10.

"come fall he will be making more money then you will see in a life time"

Wow. It's like that?