I searched, but couldn't find a thread dedicated to Jakob. There has been lots of talk about his improvement, status as an all-time Ute great, and draft potential in other season and game threads. I'm guessing we will need a place to continue to discuss him after this season is over.
I love this picture of Jakob from the game Sunday. The fact that the 7 footer is flying through the air like someone much smaller, and the grin on his face are both awesome.
“To me there is no dishonor in being wrong and learning. There is dishonor in willful ignorance and there is dishonor in disrespect.” James Hatch, former Navy Seal and current Yale student.
Poeltl or Pöltl?! Where do we stand on this?!?!
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Pötato, Potäto
Umlauts weren’t always written as dots above a vowel.
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However, the non-umlaut version is not quite as Metal:
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“To me there is no dishonor in being wrong and learning. There is dishonor in willful ignorance and there is dishonor in disrespect.” James Hatch, former Navy Seal and current Yale student.
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I searched, but couldn't find a thread dedicated to Jakob. There has been lots of talk about his improvement, status as an all-time Ute great, and draft potential in other season and game threads. I'm guessing we will need a place to continue to discuss him after this season is over.
I love this picture of Jakob from the game Sunday. The fact that the 7 footer is flying through the air like someone much smaller, and the grin on his face are both awesome.
I'll bet my son would love this pic as a poster.
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"Three-time Pro Bowler Eric Weddle the most versatile, and maybe most intelligent, safety in the game." -- SI, 9/7/15, p. 107.
It's an awesome shot
According to Krysko, Poeltl has a 36-38" vertical. Pretty impressive for a 7 footer.
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The accolades are coming in.
USA Today all American 1st team
CBS Sports PAC 12 player of the year
“To me there is no dishonor in being wrong and learning. There is dishonor in willful ignorance and there is dishonor in disrespect.” James Hatch, former Navy Seal and current Yale student.
The last 3 weeks he has looked like a young NBA center playing against college kids. Given where he was last year, he has earned every accolade that is undoubtedly coming his way. I won't be surprised if he is a consensus All American.
He's now 3 for 3 on major publications naming him First Team AA.
USA Today yesterday, ESPN and NBC today.
Looking like he has a legit chance to be a consensus AA. Here are the requirements, per wikipedia:
While an increasing number of media outlets select All-America teams, the NCAA recognizes consensus All-America teams back to 1905.[2] These teams have drawn from two to six major media sources over the years, and are intended to reflect the opinions of most college basketball experts. Today the four teams used to select consensus teams are: the Associated Press, The National Association of Basketball Coaches, the United States Basketball Writers Association and Sporting News magazine. Since 1984, the NCAA has applied a standardized point system to those teams designated as "major" All-American teams to determine consensus teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.[3]
Sports Illustrated All American. http://www.si.com/college-basketball...-brice-johnson
Even if they do think he's a forward
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Jakob wins the Kareem Abdul Jabbar best center award.
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Love it! A Cousy award one year, a KAJ award the next. Great things for Utah Basketball!
Absolutely!
Awesome but this makes me nervous that he might start consider leaving a year early next year for the NBA.
Why a formal announcement? What does that portend?
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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
--Albert Einstein
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
--Richard Dawkins
Be kind to all, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
--Philo
College players going into their junior year frequently call press conferences to announce that they are returning to school.
I just held one about my intentions of going into the office tomorrow morning.
Eagerly awaiting Jakob's announcement that he's coming back for his junior year today!
Shit.
Good luck in your adventure Jakob!
Officially declares for the draft.
“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”
Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Now I just hope he lands in a good spot.
So...not the Jazz.
“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”
Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
If you are an NBA GM, who would you take first? Poeltl or Sabonis?
“To me there is no dishonor in being wrong and learning. There is dishonor in willful ignorance and there is dishonor in disrespect.” James Hatch, former Navy Seal and current Yale student.
Not the Jazz, who have Gobert. Not the Sixers who have 3 centers.
Wrong again.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
--Albert Einstein
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
--Richard Dawkins
Be kind to all, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
--Philo
I think they have different games. So it depends on how you want to play him.
Sabonis is a better shooter, but I think Poeltl would be better in a pick-and-roll setup.
Calibrate that sarcasm meter.
Someday i hope to be like you, Su.....always right, and with enough money that i can go around and do things to better mankind for free because gosh darn it im a good person.
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