Zach Lowe tells Utah (and a couple other teams) what to do in free agency

[Stifle Tower]

It's July 1st in the Eastern time zone genius.

Boy do I feel STUPID!

30 days has September, April, JUNE and November. For some reason I thought July 1st wasn't until Thursday.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Care to show a minute allotment? Because my comparison already took this "ingenious" idea into account.

Say we sign K.J. McDaniels.

Exum (30 mins), Burks (13 mins), Neto (5 mins)

Burks (17 mins), McDaniels (20 mins), Hood (11 mins)

Hayward (27 mins), Hood (17 mins), McDaniels (4 mins)

Favors (25 mins), Lyles (18 mins), Hayward (5 mins)

Gobert (32 mins), Favors (7 mins), Pleiss (9 mins)

That's a total of 48 mins per positon and total minutes for each player would look like this:

Exum 30 mins

Burks 30 mins

Hayward 32 mins

Hood 28 mins

McDaniels 24 mins

Favors 32 mins

Gobert 32 mins

Lyles 18 mins

Pleiss 9 mins

Neto 5 mins

You can tweak it around a little any way you want, but that looks pretty spread out and even if you ask me.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Just stop with McDaniels.

Dude is not good at basketball. He would not be able to get minutes over Joe Ingles and Millsap would probably beat him too.

 

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Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 20s21 seconds ago

Brooklyn is moving rapidly toward extensions with free agents Brook Lopez and Thad Young, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

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Can we make this the official FA thread and sticky it?

 

[Elizah Huge]

Just stop with McDaniels.

Dude is not good at basketball. He would not be able to get minutes over Joe Ingles and Millsap would probably beat him too.

Not sure if serious. We could get him for 1/3 of what Green or Middleton would cost and he wouldn't need as much minutes as them.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Not sure if serious. We could get him for 1/3 of what Green or Middleton would cost and he wouldn't need as much minutes as them.

You suggested getting McDaniels for 7 million dollars per year (or 6.5 per year) which is ridicullous and not 1/3rd of what Green/Middleton would get. They are both 16 million dollar max players at most (they can't get more than that). I'd rather have someone who can play basketball and pay them the max than give a bench player rotation player money when they aren't a rotation player.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Burks at PG; Hayward at PF. That's causing two players to play out of position just to accommodate KJ MickeyD. If we're going to do that, may as well sign a veteran stud. And are talking about the player who shot 29% from deep?

 

[Elizah Huge]

Tony Jones ‏@Tjonessltrib

As free agency opens, another NBA source repeats the Utah Jazz' interest in having Raul Neto join the team next season.

Greg Rose @GRose27

@Tjonessltrib Jazz targeting backup 5s in FA? If so, who?

Tony Jones ‏@Tjonessltrib

They are working on Tibor Pleiss right now.

Hell yes.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Exum (28 mpg) (Burks 20 mpg)
Middleton (28 mpg) (Burks 8 mpg) (Hood 12 mpg)
Hayward (30 mpg) (Hood 18 mpg)
Favors (32 mpg) Hayawrd (5 mpg) (Lyles 11 mpg)
Gobert (32 mpg) (Lyles 6 mpg) (Pleiss 10 mpg)


*Obviously due to change based on who performs well with what lineups*

I get you-- I just really really think that playing 70% of Alec's minutes at the 1 is neutering his effectiveness.

To me it just seems most parsimonious to leaving the 2 up to Burks and Hood, resting on the high likelihood that one of our PGs learns the position competently, and wait till February.

 

[Elizah Huge]

You suggested getting McDaniels for 7 million dollars per year (or 6.5 per year) which is ridicullous and not 1/3rd of what Green/Middleton would get. They are both 16 million dollar max players at most (they can't get more than that). I'd rather have someone who can play basketball and pay them the max than give a bench player rotation player money when they aren't a rotation player.

Yeah, we could prob get him for 5 mil which is 1/3. Dude plays defense, not sure how he is a scrub.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Burks at PG; Hayward at PF. That's causing two players to play out of position just to accommodate KJ MickeyD. If we're going to do that, may as well sign a veteran stud. And are talking about the player who shot 29% from deep?

Yeah, we are talking about that scrub.