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Report: Jazz Could Fill Out Roster With Bryce Cotton, Tibor Pleiss

By Clint Peterson

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Mar 21, 2014; San Antonio, TX, USA; Providence Friars guard Bryce Cotton (11) shoots against North Carolina Tar Heels guard Marcus Paige (5) in the first half of a men

According ESPN’s Marc Stein, who is hooked in to the San Antonio Spurs, the Utah Jazz are set to call up Bryce Cotton from the Spurs’ D-League affiliate Austin

Toros

Spurs.

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Note: Stein noted in his next tweet that the Toros were recently renamed the Austin Spurs

Bryce Cotton went undrafted after playing four years for the Providence Friars, who won the 2014 Big East Men’s Tournament with Cotton averaging 17.7 points, 2.7 rebounds, and 5.0 assists, taking home the tourney MVP award.

The Friars would lose a heartbreaker to the vaunted North Carolina Tarheels in the Round of 64 in the NCAA Tournament, but Cotton would shine again with a dynamic 36 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists.

Bryce Cotton is a 6’1″ 165 lbs. shooter, knocking down threes at a high rate for the D-League Spurs.

The Utah Jazz are currently tied for 19th in the NBA in three-point field goal percent at .344, a number you prefer to see over 35%.

This would be Utah’s fifth NBA D-League call-up of the season, according to Chris Reichert of Road to the Association.

Grant Jerrett

Acquired as part the Enes Kanter, Steve Novak trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Tony Jones of the Salt Lake Tribune reports Jerrett could be joining the Jazz soon as well.

The Jazz have only 11 active players currently listed on the roster. They have two weeks from the trade made to reach the league minimum of 12.

The 6’10” California native was known as a good shooter at college in Arizona, but hit only 1-13 from three for the Thunder in limited action.

Tibor Pleiss 

Playing backup center to another international player the Utah Jazz hold the rights to, Ante Tomic, Tibor Pleiss and FC Barcelona just wrapped up a tournament final in the Spain ACB League, the Copa del Rey de Baloncesto.

Tomic and Pleiss would come up just short in an entertaining final with Real Madrid, former NBA’er Rudy Fernandez taking home MVP honors. Tibor Pleiss and the Jazz have been in buyout talks, according to Sportando writer David Pick.

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A 7’2″ German native, Pleiss is reminiscent of an offensive version of Rudy Gobert, but has struggled this season, Emmet Ryan tells us.

"The Tomic/Pleiss tandem is essentially what Barca need to steady the ship and bring all of the young parts together with the veteran core. Right now only one half of that is working and the road to Madrid in May looks awfully long.–Basketball in Europe"

There’s a highlight reel of Pleiss in this piece from a few days ago at PnB about the draft picks the Utah Jazz have compiled.

UPDATE: The Utah Jazz have signed Jack Cooley to a 10-day contract. You can read a report on him here. And David Locke reports Bryce Cotton will indeed fill out the roster.

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