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Jazz Snubbed on All-Stars…A GOOD THING!
Posted by: Jazzaholic on January 25th, 2013
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.Per recent tradition, the Jazz again didn’t have any players make the All-Star team.
A bad thing, right?
Au contrare mes amis!
Any Jazz player hopeful of making the All-Star team, ie, Big Al and Paul, may feel snubbed and disheartened, but look at it from the Jazz management standpoint.
Having an “All-Star” gives you bragging rights to having a star on your team, but what else?
He probably doesn’t play any better, in fact, he may become a prima dona head case.
When it comes time to resign him July 1st, who do you have to fork out more money for?
Yep, that “All-Star” label costs your team plenty and probably screws up your cap and flexibility to sign complimentary players or make trades.
So, having a good player, playing near All-Star level, might just be better for the team, than an All-Star demanding a super long max contract.
Jazzaholic
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It goes to show how much value we see in our players in comparison the the rest of the league
Mr. Jazzaholic, as always you seem to nail down the proper perspective. Looking at the Jazz situation, from a business point of view, the Jazz are about to fall into an envious place by allowing our veterans contracts to expire. It will leave us with a lot of options monetarily. I believe we need a better shooting SF, a young PG, and a backup center. We won’t have to spend a fortune to get them and we will have money to resign our core 4 youngsters.
Hopefully it makes Hayward and Favors work that much harder like Deron used to when he felt slighted.
I also agree with your point come free agency (assuming no trades happen). When Millsap and Jefferson start demanding inflated contracts, we could say “well let’s see what non All Star caliber players are making these days…” =)
They need to change the name to “Fan favorite game night.” Fan voting has ruined the all star game. Ming only played a handful of games his last three years but was still voted in as the starter.Good luck at trying to outvote the Chineese..
Over the years all kinds of injured players have been elected by the fans, who hadn’t played a game. The only thing which hasn’t happened yet is a retired or deceased player being elected by the fans. I’m sure we’ll see that someday.
Jazzaholic
The Jazz were hardly “snubbed”. Who on this team was realistically worthy of being an All-Star?
Nobody. The vets are all mediocre at best, and the youngsters haven’t been given enough of an opportunity.
Well that’s one way to look at it. The other–and more logical–way to look at it is that the Jazz don’t have any players that are good enough to be all stars.
Jefferson isn’t near enough a complete player to worthy of an All Star. Millsap is good but he doesn’t consistly put up the figures that Kevin Love does. If Tim Duncan didn’t get there can we really say Jefferson or Millsap were snubbed?
Right now Favors isn’t consistent enough or getting enough playing time to even be considered. Hayward is probably the only one that looks like he might have what it takes to be considered on his play in the future but he’s playing in a small market and he’s probably always going to be the type of player that plays for the team rather than individual stats like some All Stars. The kids who vote in their thousands for this probably don’t even see Utah games, they see the games that are against LA or Miami or an on TNT.
Or they’re in China voting ethnic background.
Jazzaholic
I really dont care about “all stars” this is still basketball right? team game hellou??? exept San Antonio players
Someone deceased could play better than Watson..
Not a great shooter is he!
He does play hard defense and goes after rebounds.
Jazzaholic