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WOJ: Korver to Jazz for Burks and 2 second rounders

I've been thinking about this trade for a bit now, and I'm starting to wonder if they were playing Burks so they could try and get his trade value up. I think this may have been the plan for awhile, and isn't about how the team has been playing. Now, since they have been playing bad and the 3 pt shooting has been so bad, they decided to target a 3 pt specialist. Who really knows though except for DL.
 
homeytennis said:
We need to sign DWill, Boozer, Memo, Brewer and Fess and the gang is back together.
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Scratch Boozer. We already have a Brewer, his name just happens to be Exum. Gobert is also everything we hoped Fes would be. I'm down with Memo and DWill. We don't currently have either of those.
 
The most optimistic view of this trade is a really good situation.

On this team It's hard to underrate a guy who has to be guarded closely no matter where he is on the court. That has been our biggest weakness by far, at least by the eye test. Korver could be a really high +/- player for this team.

Hope he gets reinvigorated coming back to Utah, I believe he still has some juice left in those legs.
 
Gobzilla said:
I'm starting to wonder if they were playing Burks so they could try and get his trade value up.
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I think you are wrong.
This is his 8th year in the league and this season he was averaging less minutes per game than any other season in his career...... While arguably playing better than any other season in his career.

So if that was the plan, they did a horrible job at it.

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fishonjazz said:
I think you are wrong.
This is his 8th year in the league and this season he was averaging less minutes per game than any other season in his career...... While arguably playing better than any other season in his career.

So if that was the plan, they did a horrible job at it.

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So instead of just letting Burks walk like they usually let FA do, they decided to get something back for him instead. Makes perfect sense to me actually. You are thinking about it all wrong.
 
I doubt that Burks was in the Jazz's plans after this year once his contract expired. I'm sad to see him go on a personal note. I like the guy, he's been nothing but classy despite the substantial challenges/disappointments he's faced the last few weeks. On the other hand, it wasn't going to happen for him v, so I hope he gets his chance knocks it out of the park in Cleveland, and I'll be cheering loudly for him when he returns to Vivant. All the best Houdini!!

So, given Burks was not integral to the Jazz's success one way or the other, bringing in a 3-point specialist who has real gravity is, I think, an upgrade. We desperately need more shooting, and apparently the FO agrees. I hope this turns out to be a win-win. I don't see this as a game changer, but it's a positive step, I think.
 
Spinoza said:
Jeff Hornacek, Paul Millsap, Mehmet Okur, Bryon Russell, Carlos Boozer, Shandon Anderson, Howard Eisley, Gordan Giricek, Raja Bell, Donyell Marshall, Mark Eaton, David Benoit, Tyrone Corbin, Mo Williams... all 2nd-rounders or below who were at least decent for us at some point; and that's just the ones that have played for the Jazz. There are tons of examples of guys who never played for us. You're not going to get an all-star out of the 2nd round, but you can definitely get solid rotation players.
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Not to quibble but Donyell Marshall was a number 4 overall pick.

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Gobzilla said:
So instead of just letting Burks walk like they usually let FA do, they decided to get something back for him instead. Makes perfect sense to me actually. You are thinking about it all wrong.
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You said they were playing Burks to get his value up but they were playing him less than ever before while he was playing his best.
If they wanted his value up then it's seems like they would play him more than they had in the past especially since he was playing better than he had in the past.

I don't think they were playing him to get his value up, I think they were playing him because they didn't have any better options.

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David Ginola 14 said:
Our Gm realizes in December that, except for Ingles, there are no roster shooters .. but what did he think in the off season? Korver, who I like, is 37, goes to take the place of our 23-year-old rookie ... when we say programming ...
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Maybe he thought Niang would not lose all shooting ability when he is in a game. Maybe he thought Ricky would (uncharacteristically) maintain some of that shooting momentum he had in the 2nd half of the season. Maybe he thought Exum or O'Neale would improve their shooting, even if just a tiny bit, instead of seemingly regressing. Maybe he thought our defense would get our offense going like it did last year rather than have the new rules destroy our defense and make our offense panic just trying to keep up with the opponents.

I could be way off. Just trying to come up with explanations for what has gone wrong.
 
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