He also had a reason to get a guarantee. He played well the game year before.
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Grant Jarrett
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I never followed him in Orlando other than the stats. Just remember being lukewarm on a "center" scoring 10 PPG who couldn't rebound. Everyone hyped his jump shot opening things up for Malone and media kept showing clips of his mid-range J. In fact, those clips may have been the only time his midrange J was seen. Plenty of worse people than Garrett have gotten guarantees.
Jarret was a scrub at Arizona who left after a horrendous year. He never deserved a NBA contract but somehow he got a guaranteed deal.
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Kyoto
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How many times is(are?) Portland going to pick up players the Jazz have had but threw away? GRANTES WES MATTHEWS was a totally great pickup by them, and I cursed them for getting him, but, really... how many examples of Portland just riding on our coat tails do we need before it becomes comical??
Miggs
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Jason Hart was better?
homeytennis
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I think Jarret's guaranteed money was given to him by OKC and he was part of the Kanter trade. OKC must have initially saw something in him and then concluded like Utah that he had no NBA talent.
Hart was bad. Not Amaechi bad.
framer
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I think the issue with Hart is that he was at least trying to play basketball. Ameachi acted like he had never even picked up a basketball once arriving in Utah. He had no desire to play. You could have picked a greencoat guarding the Delta Center aisle and got more effort at center.
But, of course, Sloan only hated him because he was gay.
homeytennis
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Sloan didn't like him because he put out no effort as all.
Not sure I'd agree that Reggie Jackson & Kanter are trash.
I'm hardly a great evaluator of basketball talent, but the rare times I saw him play I saw absolutely nothing that suggests he'll be anything but a 4 year sort of career NBA player. Like I'm sure if you put him in a Y league he'd dominate but I'm not even sure how he's in the league against NBA talent.
I don't think I've hated any Jazz player ever more than Ameachi. Well maybe Kanter, but at least Kanter gave a **** half the time. Amaechi was about the most worthless player I've ever seen, and he's such a pompous c-word to boot. He actually wrote this in his book:
"The problem was not my commitment to the game. I was working as hard, with what I had, as anyone on the team. The truth is Sloan and Jazz management hadn't done their research - otherwise known as scouting. They could tell you all my court tendencies, how I played the game and why I should fit into the system. But they knew nothing of my character."
So it's the Jazz's fault that they didn't know he was a lazy ****.