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Harris trade…
Posted by: Jaron on January 21st, 2012
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.I’m not suggesting this is feasible, but it worked and without doing any research I would say I would love this trade, Devin Harris for CJ Watson and Kyle Korver.
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=87ck8o5
Maybe if we throw in our GS pick they would go for it? I don’t know. We would have our PG for the future and our trusty 3 point machine back. I’m just bored waiting anxiously for tipoff and looking for a comment or two. What do you guys think?
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lol Chi would love that trade, Watson and Korver for a first rounder and Harris’s expiring contract. Not a good trade for Utah at all.
So let me get this straight. You want to trade a quality starting point guard and a high lottery pick in one of the most promising drafts ever, for a backup point guard who is worse than Earl Watson and possibly Jamal Tinsley, and a player who does nothing more than shoot 3’s. This is the worst trade post I have ever seen!
I don’t know how good of a point guard CJ Watson is. Haven’t heard much of him and he probably doesn’t get much court time playing behind – how embarrassing, how do I keep forgetting this guy’s name? – not to mention he would have to learn a new system a third of the way through the year. Earl will then be the only point guard with a good grasp of the system. Makes us very thin at the point guard spot.
By picking up two guys who’s going to get their playing time cut back? I’d hate to see Hayward or Burks lose minutes. Korver can shoot threes but I like Raja’s defense and hayward’s and Burk’s upside better.
I would have to say not a good trade. Unless something too good to refuse comes up, keep Devon. Earl can always play more minutes if necessary.
Alright alright, appreciate the love from you guys especially Nick and Brandon, I usually put a lot more time into my posts when its something I care about, if I was incredibly serious about this I would have done more research, it was just me being bored, so I’d appreciate you cutting me a little slack here. Anyways here’s this years stats on the two guys.
2012 Season Stats
CJ Watson- PPG-10.8 RPG-2.0 APG-4.0 SPG-1.4 FG%-.435 3P%-.524 FT%-.840 MPG-20.0 TO-1.8
Devin Harris PPG-8.1 RPG-1.4 APG-4.6 SPG-.9 FG%-.350 3P%-.318 MPG-25.6 TO-2.0
CJ Watson is playing better this year almost across the board than Devin Harris, those are the facts. Watson is shooting 52% and Korver is shooting 45% from 3 point range, Jazz are near the bottom of the league in 3 point percentage.
Hopefully Devin Harris turns it around and plays much better than CJ Watson the rest of the year, he definitely has a much more illustrious career than CJ, or Korver, but at this point on paper the trade benefits the Jazz. So I’m not sure how it qualifies as the worst trade post ever. Especially considering the Millsap trade posts that are out there. By the way, CJ Watson is a much better PG than Tinsley at this point in his career, and I love Earl, but CJ’s numbers are far better than his this year too. (career wise they are pretty close) Can’t deny Earl’s leadership though, which is an intangible that doesn’t show up on paper. CJ is a lot younger than either of those guys. Our Golden State pick is top 7 protected, and right now Golden State is the 7th worst team in the league, so at this point we don’t even get the pick if Golden State doesn’t pick it up a little bit. Once again, this was just an off the top of my head post, but here are the facts. Whether its a good trade or not, whatever, but I don’t think its as bad as Nick and Brandon made it sound, just my opinion.
By the way KCJazzfan that would be Derrick Rose you are forgetting, CJ backs him up but plays 20mpg and plays on the court with him from time to time. I agree I wouldn’t want Korver taking minutes away from Burks or Hayward, but it would be nice to have a guy we know we can count on to hit a 3 close to 50% of the time. I really liked Korver when he was here, and he really helped us at a time when, like now, we really didn’t have any consistent 3 point shooters, outside of D-Will back then, and really nobody now.
We may not be winning with 3 pointers but we are winning. CJ may back up Rose – thank you Jaron
– but again he’d have to come in and learn the system. I don’t see him being a long term answer to point guard. Hold out for better. And getting an older Korver just for 3 point shooting? I’d prefer Hayward, Burks and Bell work on their shot.
Something else to consider. Harris has one year left on his contract after this year. A salary coming off the books makes a player much more attractive in a trade in many cases.
I’d hold off on trading Harris unless it truly is an offer that’s way too good to pass up.
I don’t like the trade because Korver does nothing for this team, we don’t need his contract and he takes up mins. CJ might have better stats atm, but he is not a better player, and he definatly would not be a long term anwser. If they need to trade Harris, cool but we can get a much better trade than that.
Most promising draft ever I dout that its goin to be a good draft but not the most promising by anymeans it can’t beat the lebron mello and wade draft or even come close to it I would consider watson I would try and save the pick though and work something out for just cj and no korver korver doesn’t want to be here anyways that’s why he left so why would he be happy to come back