Good Article - "NBA Free Agency 2016: Utah Jazz cap situation and future-proofing"

[Handlogten's Heros]

The idea is you don't have to trade an asset if you sign a vet to a good contract rather than trade for one. Make sense?

Exactly what I was after... You can also use that asset with draft assets to acquire a better asset or one that fits better.

Say we had signed aminu and wanted Teague last year... We could have used aminu plus the gsw pick to get that done. There was almost no way to sign a bad deal last year with the rising cap. Even an albatross like Kanter could be moved.

 

[Miggs]

Signing this player last off-season would have cut into time needed for our young uns to develop though. Unless it was post-Exum injury of course.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Signing this player last off-season would have cut into time needed for our young uns to develop though. Unless it was post-Exum injury of course.

All those minutes Chris Johnson and Joe Ingles got this season will really pay off next year.

 

[NAOS]

Wasnt Harris a RFA. So Jazz could have made an offer that would have been matched and would be in the same boat except Orlando would have had to wait a year to trade him,

Are you trying to obfuscate? There's a underlying lesson in this example.

 

[Stoked]

not until the Queen (who has repeatedly attempted to hand me "Ls" on this subject) steps up and admits he's wrong. He should take an L right on the chin for this and Burke.... which, when you add it up, is pretty much a total loss of credibility.

And you ruin your own in the process by coming off as petty and bitter. Stop fighting battles that don't exist/matter and just post. When you do that I think you are quite good tbh.

 

[NAOS]

All those minutes Chris Johnson and Joe Ingles got this season will really pay off next year.

While Neto's minutes may payoff in some sense, he should probably be added to your list.

 

[NAOS]

And you ruin your own in the process by coming off as petty and bitter. Stop fighting battles that don't exist/matter and just post. When you do that I think you are quite good tbh.

meh, don't care.

 

[NAOS]

If this sounds bitter, it's because, on this topic, I am.

 

[Stoked]

If this sounds bitter, it's because, on this topic, I am.

Then said poster "won". But ok, have fun.

 

[Coach Ellis]

Sorry, but I'd always defer to getting young guys on valuable contracts. Even though it's just one and an option, having Lin, Casspi and/or Biyambo would have been great investments. Likely push this team into the playoffs and you can justify playing each and every single one behind the guys already in the lineup.

Not sure if there will be deals like that to be had this offseason. Possibly through trades. I think that draft picks are REALLY going to have value moving forward because of how small the contracts those players are locked into. One of the BIG reasons that I don't want the Jazz to trade #12 unless it's for a real difference maker.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Are you trying to obfuscate? There's a underlying lesson in this example.

Nope havent read any of your discussion or debate just read your post about who is better for getting Harris. I didnt think Jazz had any shot at signing a RFA whos team seemed like they would match. Orlando retained him just like Jazz would have done if he was their player aka Hayward.

If you are using this as an example of something else such as players Jazz should have signed in the off season I dont see him as a good example of that. Maybe find a player we could have signed unless I am wrong and he wasnt a RFA or we could have signed him somehow. I suppose they would have been interested in a sign and trade since he got traded so soon after. If its an example of something else I guess I could go back through and read whatever your discussion is about but I dont even know what other thread and person you were debating this with.

If that is the debate I am not sure who we could have got that would have made a difference this year. I assume there is a player or 2 we could have overpaid and possibly gotten. That player might have helped us get in the playoffs this year. But I dont think making the playoffs this year makes us any better of a team going forward. I am glad we didnt tie up future cap space on a non difference maker of a player that is over payed and slowed the development of players such as Hood and Lyles just to get swept in the first round and a worse draft pick. This off season we have a better developed Hood and Lyles due to playing time and we have cap space to pursue players we want or make a trade we want.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

While Neto's minutes may payoff in some sense, he should probably be added to your list.

Yeah I agree... he was brought in to be a 3rd PG and develop in the D League.