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Joe Johnson Coming to Utah

ghsartin said:
I watched a couple of his games last season and I totally agree with One Love. Johnson's lack of quickness at this stage of his career would be exposed on the perimeter if he's kept there for too many minutes, but he is savvy, big and remains in good shape. I think he should split time between 3 and 4. I like the idea of using him regularly as a 4 for the sake of spacing and having an additional ballhandler on court.
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He's clearly replacing Booker... giving the spacing that Booker never could. I don't expect to see him at the 2 this year.
 
ghsartin said:
I watched a couple of his games last season and I totally agree with One Love. Johnson's lack of quickness at this stage of his career would be exposed on the perimeter if he's kept there for too many minutes, but he is savvy, big and remains in good shape. I think he should split time between 3 and 4. I like the idea of using him regularly as a 4 for the sake of spacing and having an additional ballhandler on court.
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Agreed. That said, we aren't going to ask him to play a huge wheelbarrow full of minutes. But he gives us the ability to create mismatches and match teams in certain situations. I'm loving this more and more.
 
I realize that there may be some disappointment that the Jazz were not more active in the free-agent market. But when I see the types of salaries being thrown at players who are in my opinion marginal and are unlikely to do much to move the needle in terms of making the team competitive, such as Byombo, Mozgov, Turner, I am glad that the jazz did not get caught up in this insanity. (yes I realize that the salary cap increase needs to be taken into account and look at how much money some of these free agents got, but I still think the teams massively overpaid for some of these free agents and are going to be regretting it down the line when they see that these free agents haven't really changed their fortunes much.) I am satisfied with the acquisitions so far and I am glad the Jazz didn't overspend and thus limit our ability to resign our key core members down the road. I would still like to try to see the jazz sign a stretch center. But if this is all that happens during the free agency., I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome relative to what a lot of the other teams are doing. As I've noted before, our starting lineup was not the problem last year, but our problem was the bench. And with the acquisition of Hill and Johnson we have substantially strengthened our bench added depth added shooting and added veteran experience. I am confident with what we have we are poised to make a run next year for a good playoff seeding if all falls into place while also retaining the flexibility to re-sign Hayward and Favors and Gobert down the road.
 
So we add basically 4 new players next year, all pretty good. I like the direction of the team and Ia pumped for next year! Just wanted to share!
 
This one wasn't on the top ten, but pretty great. Even the announcers couldn't help but laugh. I could watch these all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1K1KT0n5h8
 
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