Reggie Jackson's year

[da ThRONe]

Give me a break. Exum was a 19 rookie. Jackson is 25. It isn't about whether or not Jackson can play. I like Jackson. It's about if you would pay him 14 or 15 million a year to be potentially be your backup PG. Like it or not, the Jazz are committed to Exum. And despite your assertions there is no guarantee he would have re-signed in Utah or that the Jazz would have matched an $80m offer. Would he be worth that amount of money to the Jazz? If we gave Trey Burke 32 minutes a night and 17 shots he would probably put up the same numbers.

Jackson and Burke shooting percentages are almost identical from the floor.

 

[Miggs]

You do know we can always trade a player that doesn't fit in, right? You do know the majority of our players don't really have any trade vaule, right?

So your brilliant GM philosophy would be to pay a guy 15M a year and then if he doesn't fit in (which would presumably mean he sucks for us), just trade him as if so many teams would a guy at 15M a year even though he's been ****ty and hasmany years left on his deal.

You're a genius.

 

[Miggs]

Try to navigate through my typos. The site doesn't let me edit from my phone for some reason.

 

[NUMBERICA]

So your brilliant GM philosophy would be to pay a guy 15M a year and then if he doesn't fit in (which would presumably mean he sucks for us), just trade him as if so many teams would a guy at 15M a year even though he's been ****ty and hasmany years left on his deal.

You're a genius.

The better-case scenario is it works very well. The worse-case is you trip and get nothing out the asset you trade away.

On the other hand, you could just get squat (the worse-case) from the get-go and not have to worry about whether something will go well or not?

I guess I kind of get that. But only kind of.

 

[jom2003]

So your brilliant GM philosophy would be to pay a guy 15M a year and then if he doesn't fit in (which would presumably mean he sucks for us), just trade him as if so many teams would a guy at 15M a year even though he's been ****ty and hasmany years left on his deal.

You're a genius.

Yeah right. Like paying an ACTUAL NBA player 15M a year is so much worse than paying 5 Dleaguers 3M a year. What would the jazz do with all these extra money anyways? Like overpaying its starter players? The jazz is currently ranked 28th in terms of payroll right now, and you are a fine example of why GMs like DL manages to screw arond every summer and still keeps his job

 

[fishonjazz]

Jackson would of signed with Utah too as a free agent. I personally know the kid. Talked to him about this last season. He likes to play with big guys who can crash the boards and play defense sincehe is a scoring point guard. His family is in the Springs which wouldof been nice for him. He is a laid back good kid off the court too and would of fit in well since yall like clean cut guys on your team. From a military family. Comparing Kanter to Jackson just because of some attitude is insane. Kanter cant play and is garbage. Jackson can actually hoop.

Lol

 

[Miggs]

The better-case scenario is it works very well. The worse-case is you trip and get nothing out the asset you trade away.

On the other hand, you could just get squat (the worse-case) from the get-go and not have to worry about whether something will go well or not?

I guess I kind of get that. But only kind of.

This is completely disingenuous. The worst case is we're on the hook for four years for a 15M a year guard who is underperforming and a pain in the ***.

Also, I love how you never responded to my initial post, ya know, about how playing time would be a major issue, not to mention other things I didn't mention, like clearly defined roles and the notion that Jackson may have had zero interest in coming here not only because of the city and culture but because of the fact that it was pretty obvious Exum was our starting point guard. Let's continue to ignore what could have very obvious issues in signing him or other wings.

 

[silesian]

Dennis Lindsey sucks.

In the long run he will prove to be an average starting PG. Really where you want to spend max money?

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

We could have signed Jackson to a max and traded him this year. He would be a great trade piece.

This is only true because he blew up this year. At the time of the trade it would have been pure speculation to think he'd play at this level, and signing him to a max contract would have been a huge risk. If he had under performed his contract would have become untradable.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

This is only true because he blew up this year. At the time of the trade it would have been pure speculation to think he'd play at this level, and signing him to a max contract would have been a huge risk. If he had under performed his contract would have become untradable.

He had been putting up very good numbers on his rookie contract. It wasn't wild speculation to think he would improve.

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[My2Cents]

He had been putting up very good numbers on his rookie contract. It wasn't wild speculation to think he would improve.

Maybe, but his numbers in OKC were modest. 13 PPG on 43% shooting and 4 APG in 28 minutes. And that's in his third and fourth years which is where Trey is now. Doesn't really scream max contract to me but I'm not a GM. I don't think DL wanted to commit 14 mil to a PG not named Exum. I guess he could have looked at it as asset accumulation but that was risky. Trey isn't 6' 3" but he's putting up similar numbers in his third year.

 

[fishonjazz]

Maybe, but his numbers in OKC were modest. 13 PPG on 43% shooting and 4 APG in 28 minutes. And that's in his third and fourth years which is where Trey is now. Doesn't really scream max contract to me but I'm not a GM. I don't think DL wanted to commit 14 mil to a PG not named Exum. I guess he could have looked at it as asset accumulation but that was risky. Trey isn't 6' 3" but he's putting up similar numbers in his third year.

Good post