Guys I'd rather have than Wesley Matthews

[Darkwing Duck]

It's not 5 million per year, Marcus. It's essentially 7 million per year with almost 10 million paid up front.

The Jazz should have confidence that they can find and to some extents create another Wesley Matthews.

 

[billyshelby]

I suspect that Matthews 3 point shooting % will go up this following year and that his defense will be even better.

I suspect Matthews' defense will be the same or slightly improved. He's a good defender, limited physically, and anyone who really remembers last year knows that he struggles against bigger, more athletic players.

One thing that bugs me is the shooting. When you look at Matthews college numbers, he was a poor shooter his first 3 years, a pretty good shooter in his senior year at Marquette. His pro numbers in his first year were slightly better than his college numbers. You could reasonably conclude that he became a better shooter, and will continue to get better. Or you could also conclude that his shooting numbers are harder to predict because he was a poor/average shooter for the 3 years prior to his senior season. That's the point. The league is littered with guys who shot well one year and didn't in other years. There's no basis to assume Wes will shoot like he did last year, and his college numbers only make it tougher to predict what he'll do. Did he just suddenly learn to shoot? When you spend MLE money, you want to know that a guy can definitely shoot in the NBA. Kyle Korver can definitely shoot in the NBA. There's no way of knowing at this point if Wes can.

 

[sirkickyass]

I'd be curious to know what his PPG were after Brewer left and got more playing time. I recall several 20+ point games.

You recall wrongly. After the Brewer trade in mid-February, Matthews scored 20+ only twice the rest of the season. By contrast, he had five games where he scored six or less points.

As a starter Matthews averaged 10.9 ppg.

 

[slc]

So what guards at summer league looked good enough to replace Matthews?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Sign Brewer back and sign another D-League SG, hopefully we can find gold twice.

 

[RocStar]

How bout a guy like Shannon Brown of the Lakers? We can work DWill @ the SG position, with Brown at PG in Sloan's 2PG system as he is a big PG also.And with the lakers signing Steve Blake and trying to sign Fish this will hamper their ability to resign him @ a rate like 3/$12M or 4/$15M, wouldn't it?

 

[billyshelby]

So what guards at summer league looked good enough to replace Matthews?

I liked what I saw of Jody Meeks. But the point is not what guys we can get who would "replace" Matthews. It's not overpaying for Matthews. We just can't overpay for him.

 

[Hopper]

In my hood I has a lotta trouble findin suckers to play my 3-card monte scam on the corner. If I had known NBA owners were such chumps, I woulda been a player's agent.

 

[sirkickyass]

How bout a guy like Shannon Brown of the Lakers? We can work DWill @ the SG position as Brown is a big PG also.And with the lakers signing Steve Blake and trying to sign Fish this will hamper their ability to resign him @ a rate like 3/$12M or 4/$15M, wouldn't it?

Not a bad idea. Brown is also a UFA and seems to be a decent energy guy off the bench.

 

[hayward4mvp]

QRichardson? Josh Howard? Tracy McGrady? Not only no, but hell no. I don't want those guys or their Karma around the Jazz.

Karma? really? You're acting like we've won a championship in the last 5 years.

 

[Hopper]

How bout a guy like Shannon Brown of the Lakers?

Shannon Brown can straight-up BALL!

 

[Scat]

It's not 5 million per year, Marcus. It's essentially 7 million per year with almost 10 million paid up front.

The Jazz should have confidence that they can find and to some extents create another Wesley Matthews.

Yeah, I just saw the 5 years at 34 million. Too much. We'll need to rely on Miles, Hayward and AK to man the 2 & 3. Bring up a D leaguer fill the roster out. I'm still saying no to Brewer.