Utah Jazz: J-Notes staff writers’ favorite players for pick No. 21

With the 2018 NBA Draft nearing, the J-Notes crew got together and compiled our favorite prospects for the Utah Jazz at pick No. 21.

We all know that this is not a perfect world, and more often than not, our plans get altered due to outside forces that we can’t possibly control. Nothing embodies this idea more than the NBA Draft.

Teams have already put in hundreds of hours of scouting, and will still put in hours upon hours of work leading up to the draft. They do this to cover all their bases, and to narrow things down to that one perfect prospect. Then…he get’s selected just before they’re on the board.

“Oh, come on!”

Of course, teams know that the likelihood of this happening is high. That is why they spent those hours scouting. So when the player they wanted gets taken, they have backups. Then, they backup their backups. Every team heading into the draft has a draft big board, ranking prospects from their top targets on down.

What if everything shook out perfectly, though? What if the Utah Jazz identified the top player on their board, and he actually fell to them? Who would that player be?

I partnered with a few of the writers among The J-Notes staff to see who we are each favoring for this draft! We tried to be realistic with the draft range. So while Luka Doncic may be the best prospect for the Jazz, there’s no realistic way that will be happening. We selected prospects that have a reasonable chance of falling to No. 21, and if that were to be the case, who we’d each like Utah to draft.