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I see both sides
Posted by: kevin on July 8th, 2010
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.I have been on this site for a week, and so far I can see that there are two groups of people. There are the people who are optimistic, the people that are happy to have a team that is solid every year and that probably will be solid next year even without Boozer. The other group of people are frustrated. They have watched a team make the playoffs for years and years, constantly coming close but at the end, a simalar result. I tend to go back and forth. I to am very happy to be able to tune in on a cold winter night in december and know that my favorite team has a good chance to win. I credit the Jazz orginization for making this happen. Then there is the other side, the side that tends to see a lack of effort form the front office to do things that make the team a championship contender. The side that wonders why all the other teams make a lot of moves to get better and the Jazz tend to stand pat. Ah stand pat, if I had a nickle for every time I heard a Jazz executive udder those words. Now all eyes are on the Jazz front office, quite possibly like no other time in the history of the Jazz. What do they do. As a life long Jazz fan I will try to remember the first set of people I mentioned. I will be excited for this season no matter what and I hope all of you will be to, but this might be the one time that the Jazz must take do something unusual for them, take a risk. As has been mentioned by others, there is a lot at stake. Deron is waiting for the Jazz to build around him. It is time to make a big splash and hope for the best.
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Luckily, we didn’t go empty handed with Boozer signing with Chicago. Chicago didn’t have to do a sign and trade with us.
Having that 13 million dollar TPE, we should be able to get another player that we wouldn’t have been able to get otherwise (having only Harpring’s 6.5 Million dollar TPE to work with). We should see some action from the front office during the next few days.
Do you know if those trade exceptions can be put together. If they can that is a max type player. Even if they have to be used separate that is two nice players. I know there is someone available.
I don’t know if you guys saw a tweet earlier from one of the Jazz tweeters, but they said that the trade exceptions often go unused, I certainly hope that is not the case, we need help and fast.
The stars are aligning for the Jazz to sign Al Harrington. Earlier today it was reported that the Jazz had been in contact with Al Harrington’s agent and it also said that Harrington was down to the Jazz, T-Wolves, and Clippers. The Wolves just added Beasley and the Clippers added Foye and Gomes. That leaves the Jazz in a good place to sign him. We need his attitude and scoring.
Unit- trade exceptions are used a lot now a days in the NBA.
Kevin- You cannot combing exceptions and yes, that is 2 nice roll players.
Anthony, I am warming up to your Harrington idea. He would more then make up for the scoring we lost with Boozer. I just hope he cares about winning and comes to the Jazz over those other teams. I also hope that the Jazz will still add a center, one who has length. Maybe even Rod Benson if they cant get a veteren.
The way i see it, he would almost fill the boozer scoring void and grab some of the boards boozer got and Millsap would grab the rest of the boozer boards and still score 12-14 points per game. I would love to go with Harrington at the 4 and Millsap still come off the bench or you could start AK at the 4 if you wanted to. There could be times to against teams like LA where you would start AK at the 4 and Harrington at the 3 to play Odom.
Ya Kevin Oconner just said that Okur probably wont be back until the first of the year. The Jazz will really need low post scoring during that time.