Just trade for Mills and sign Mirotic and our spacing issues are solved.
Looked at some Jae numbers today. He shot close to 40% the year he started in Boston. In every other season he was a better shooter as a starter than when he came off the bench... this season he is better overall as a starter but his 3P % was worse... only a 4 game sample... so not super helpful. I think he might be much better as a starter and the 4th or 5th option than he is as a bench gunner.
So if we made that change I think we might have a higher likelihood of seeing good Jae more often. In general his overall FG % was much higher and his 3P% was 4-6% higher. I think it solves some issues for us.
C'mon LoPo,if you write " have a feeling, and maybe it's just a hopeful feeling, that we are playing Rubio so much because we might trade him."... it's clear what you think about Ricky. Anyway i'll wait for your critics to DM,Rudy,Ingles,etc , oh sorry,even in this case sure it will be ricky's fault.It's not that I don't like Ricky. There is nothing personal here. If you track my comments over time, I have been a Rubio fan.
However, being a Jazz fan comes first. When we put so much money into Favors last summer, I think that meant the end for Ricky because our starting lineup needs a big improvement at either PF or PG. I don't feel like the front office has the guts to trade Favors. He was our #1 priority this off-season. Ricky hasn't even been extended.
If we got the right player at PF, I'm fine with Ricky staying. I just feel that we need Ricky's expiring and decent play as the main part of a trade towards improvement.
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Would KCP to Utah, Exum to Phoenix, and Ariza to LA work?
No KCP is a chucker. We have already enough chuckers in our team.
Rubio and Favors are both good but they are weakest parts of a starting lineup which has potential to be special.
If we keep Rubio and Favors this summer, what a waste of a good opportunity. Keep one. Fine.
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It works financially, but it's an awful deal for us. KCP sucks.Would KCP to Utah, Exum to Phoenix, and Ariza to LA work?
It works financially, but it's an awful deal for us. KCP sucks.
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Re-signing Favors was smart if he is used in a trade prior to the deadline. I think his contract goes down as a massive failure if he stays through the season. We could have had Bjelica for 1/3 and Randle for 1/2 of his deal.Keeping Favors on the team so that he can contribute or be traded for something better is a good strategy short term.
The Jazz's starting line-up isn't special by today's standards, if we're being honest. Donovan and Rudy could be two pieces of a championship contender's core. Ingles might be okay as a glue guy and 4th or 5th option. Crowder, Royce, Favors and Thabo are defensive oriented bench pieces. That's all we have right now, if we're talking about contending. I go back and forth on whether Rubio is worth re-signing, but his lack of gravity on offense puts a ceiling on the team.
We didn't re-sign him this summer to dump him for an expiring.It is a 1 year deal where Dante is on a 3 year deal.