<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> As Kevin O'Connor puts it, rookie forward Paul Millsap is the classic example of what happens when a player is evaluated based on what he can do instead of what he can't do. All O'Connor, the Jazz's senior vice president of basketball operations, needed to know about Millsap was what he saw whenever his college team at Louisiana Tech came to play Utah State in Logan. "Every time we went to see him play, . . . he'd wind up with somewhere between 12 and 18 rebounds," O'Connor said. "I mean, every game. Every game." The numbers didn't lie: Millsap has a nose for the ball like none other, the first player in NCAA Division I history to lead the country in rebounding three consecutive seasons. It led the Jazz to spend a second-round draft pick on the player who didn't fit the NBA mold, an undersized power forward at 6-foot-8. The only difference from then and now is that Millsap is devouring rebounds in the Western Conference finals. "I'm not really trying to get out there and do anything out of character," Millsap said, "just continue to play my game." Of his opportunity with the Jazz, Millsap added, "This is the best thing that could ever happen to me." </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
Millsap is a keeper. Playing behind Boozer and Kirilenko, he could spend most of his time coming off the bench in the near future. But he's already arguably Utah's second biggest contributor off the bench behind Harpring, and should only get better. Not bad for a 47th pick.
