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Reggie Jackson's year

Tony Wroten is available! Probably the same chucker as Trey, but much much taller. Just saying...
 
ONE LOVE said:
We had a healthy Exum then... why would DL be interested in Jackson.
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I don't know, maybe because Exum is far from a proven player, doesn't have to strictly play one position, and Reggie Jackson is also not strictly a point guard and is a damn good player?
 
I'd love the idea of Jackson here but he doesn't feel like the right fit for this team, system, and/or Quin. I lay that blame more on Quin who I love mind you. He just seems quite tight in how he wants things to run. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.
 
Anybody has yet to answer the question of why taking garbage is better than taking a basketball player.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Anybody has yet to answer the question of why taking garbage is better than taking a basketball player.
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In this case, Jackson. I'll give it a whirl. Because he's the type of player who'd neither fit in the system we have here nor our long terms plans. Let's say we signed him. Then we'd have had Exum, Jackson, Burks, Hood and Hayward at the 1-3 all of whom need major time. Except that's less than 29 minutes per game for each of them. And not even including Trey Burke. We have enough talent on the wings. It's just that Exum is hurt and Hood began the year playing ****ty. What we certainly do need is a better big. Withey looks better game by game but he's really just a 4th or 5th big and shouldn't be getting more than about 8-12 minutes a night imo.
 
Realistically DL took a long hard look at Jackson's numbers when Westbrook was out early last year. Jackson's numbers were good, but he was turning the ball over at a huge rate and they went 4-11 with him as their main PG. Then DL weighed in the fact Jackson would be asking for a max and decided he wasn't worth trading any major assets for. I'd imagine that was the thought process.
 
Jazz4ever said:
Realistically DL took a long hard look at Jackson's numbers when Westbrook was out early last year. Jackson's numbers were good, but he was turning the ball over at a huge rate and they went 4-11 with him as their main PG. Then DL weighed in the fact Jackson would be asking for a max and decided he wasn't worth trading any major assets for. I'd imagine that was the thought process.
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But trading for worthless trash was worth trading a "major asset"? Also, the Thunder weren't going to just replace a top-ten player AND have no backup to Jackson without any drop off in performance.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
In this case, Jackson. I'll give it a whirl. Because he's the type of player who'd neither fit in the system we have here nor our long terms plans. Let's say we signed him. Then we'd have had Exum, Jackson, Burks, Hood and Hayward at the 1-3 all of whom need major time. Except that's less than 29 minutes per game for each of them. And not even including Trey Burke. We have enough talent on the wings. It's just that Exum is hurt and Hood began the year playing ****ty. What we certainly do need is a better big. Withey looks better game by game but he's really just a 4th or 5th big and shouldn't be getting more than about 8-12 minutes a night imo.
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I agree with this quite a bit. The problem is, the Jazz need tradable assets. Something to put on the table when calling other teams. They are historically bad at acquiring anything other than "jazz type players", and thus horrible at asset management.

They could have dumped Trey in the deal, could have gotten something from Detroit for him as well most likely.
 
Jazz4ever said:
Realistically DL took a long hard look at Jackson's numbers when Westbrook was out early last year. Jackson's numbers were good, but he was turning the ball over at a huge rate and they went 4-11 with him as their main PG. Then DL weighed in the fact Jackson would be asking for a max and decided he wasn't worth trading any major assets for. I'd imagine that was the thought process.
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Jackson is on a pretty reasonable contract for his production and position. $15mm next season out of a projected $89-90mm isn't bad at all.

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Still waiting for an I told you so from SirKicky on this one.
 
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