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NUMBERICA said:
Are you serious? That trade bails the Jazz out of an extremely key year of salary ('11-'12). And it would save the Jazz $2 million on the cap this year (which would be $4 million in savings and gets the Jazz that much closer to under the threshold).
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first of all, i can't see how '11-'12 is a "key year of salary." the jazz will be over the cap next season whether memo's here or not.

and if memo's gone and nazr mohammed is on a respirator, the jazz are going to have to spend that money somewhere else anyway. unless you feel comfortable with jeremy evans at center.

and no, it doesn't save them 2M. nazr and najera together make 9.6M. memo makes 9.9M. so it saves them 600K this season, and that's with the tax figured in.
 
Can someone explain who he'd replace? Would we bench or trade Millsap, or Jefferson or Okur for one of these "shot blockers" who can't score?
 
KhaOZ said:
Can someone explain who he'd replace? Would we bench or trade Millsap, or Jefferson or Okur for one of these "shot blockers" who can't score?
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In the system that we have going on right now, Memo can come in and help spread the floor to help Jefferson on the block. Memo and Al should be better than Memo and Boozer, just on where Al and Boozer liked to play their game at. Better spacing, means better options for Deron.
 
Kyoto said:
In the system that we have going on right now, Memo can come in and help spread the floor to help Jefferson on the block. Memo and Al should be better than Memo and Boozer, just on where Al and Boozer liked to play their game at. Better spacing, means better options for Deron.
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Not trying to hate or anything man, but your reply had nothing to do with my question. My question is, with all this demand for a "shot blocking big", if we got one, who would he replace? Who would we get rid of to add him on the floor? Would we dump Al Jefferson? Millsap? How does this "Shot blocking big" get consistent play time to be worth it?
 
honz said:
I'm pretty sure Charlotte would do that trade without thinking twice. 2 worthless players for an above average starting C/PF? Memo's contract turned out to be very reasonable when you see what big guys with no game were getting paid this offseason.
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The logic is pretty simple. Memo will NEVER be a starting center on a championship team, mostly because he sucks on defense. Knowing that, and that we don't want to pay 9M for a backup, why would we keep him when there will be other true defensive centers out there next summer like Perkins, Gasol, and Noah?

If we cleared him off our books early and AK expires, that's about 27M cleared. Imagine we use that space to get Perkins.

Williams
Miles-Bell
AK (re-signed MUCH cheaper)-Hayward
Jefferson-Millsap
Perkins

That core has legit championship potential in my opinion. We'd have a top three defensive center in the league and attitude with it which is what we've been sorely missing, and Miles and Hayward will have more experience under their belt and should be vast improvements over wings in recent years like Korver and Brewer whose glaring weaknesses have killed the team when it matters.

Or we can sit and wait for Memo to expire, waste two good years of Williams career, and watch him walk out of here when his contract is up. That is unless you're delusional and actually think Memo is a key cog on our wheel.
 
I'll add that cap space will obviously not necessarily net us the defensive center we covet. But we're a lot better off having the cap space to have the luxury to get the guy we want when the opportunity arises than sit on our hands and hope someone hands us one.
 
It seems highly unlikely Okur could be traded due to his career-threatening injury.
Nazr Mohammed will be 33 in Sept. Last season he averaged 17 minutes a game, 5.2 boards, .7 blocks, and 7.9 points. At 6'10" 250 he's a little ligher than Al Jefferson.
Mehmet Okur is 31, and his averages last season were: 29 minutes a game, 7.1 boards, 1.1 blocks, and 13.3 points. We all know neither of these guys are defensive stalwarts.
To his credit Okur does body up well down in the paint vs. big guys like Yao Ming, but doesn't deal well with smaller, quicker C and PF's.
I've always liked Nazr's game, and the age differential isn't significant, but I don't think he would handle big guys as effectively as Okur, as he's 2" shorter. He isn't very mobile
either, so who could he guard? Small, slow PF and C's, but against bigger or more agile ones, he'd be an even bigger defensive liability. At least Okur can guard the bigger C's.
Offensively, Nazr's a good offensive rebounder and can hit the medium range jump shot. We all know Okur's offensive game is mostly at the 3 point line.
I am actually eager to see Okur paired with Jefferson, as Boozer wasn't nearly as aggresive at getting low-post position, mostly settling for the medium-range J.
That put him closer to Okur on the court, making it easier for defenders to rotate from Boozer to Okur. With Jefferson in a lot deeper in the paint, the spacing
should be much more difficult for defenders to cover.
And what if Kendrick Perkins decides to go to any team not named Utah? Heck of a gamble; just ask New Jersey and a few other teams in locales with less appeal...
 
The most realistic chance of us getting a center may be by hoping Okur returns to form and we trade his expiring next summer to the Magic for Gortat.
 
KhaOZ said:
Not trying to hate or anything man, but your reply had nothing to do with my question. My question is, with all this demand for a "shot blocking big", if we got one, who would he replace? Who would we get rid of to add him on the floor? Would we dump Al Jefferson? Millsap? How does this "Shot blocking big" get consistent play time to be worth it?
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My point was, that Memo would be more valuable on offense than a shot blocking center would be on defense.
 
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