Official Trades that are Official Thread
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mellow
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Less than lance stephonsen
Stifle Tower
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The deal gets them to the salary floor. That's exactly what they wanted to do.
Jazz could have been in a similar situation by not making the GS trade and carrying all their cap space into the deadline. Sixers wound up with a handful of 2nd rounders and traded two starters. Had Utah been their partner, we could have received Hawes, sure. Who knows what else we could have acquired. Maybe some junk expirings and additional seconds from LA to help them out? Contrast that against the two additonal firsts and a couple seconds that Lindsey acquired in the summer. Jazz came out HUGE winners, IMO.
What it comes down to is NO teams were desperate to shed salaries. The taxpayers decided in the summer they were willing to pay the penalties. Sixers dumped Turner because they a) are not planning to make him an offer and b) took on $7M in additional cap hit (but < half that in actual $ paid out) to reach the salary floor. I'm sure we could have made the same type of deal by offering a pick, which Indiana didn't give up. But why? Turner is going to be a FA. Don't let the draft position fool you. He shoots a terrible percentage.
I'm glad we didn't trade Williams. I know he's not a star but he's a decent defender and I hope we can re-sign him. It's not a shock noone wants Jefferson and we can always match Hayward if it's worth it.
At this point I agree with past posts - I would love to see Jefferson benched. Burks needs to play. This season sucks and we're basically in limbo but I hope we can at least play our core and guys we plan on keeping around.
At this point I agree with past posts - I would love to see Jefferson benched. Burks needs to play. This season sucks and we're basically in limbo but I hope we can at least play our core and guys we plan on keeping around.
So Philly just gains a few percentage points in the lottery odds and makes a preemptive move to fend off the Lakers.
Lakers won't be that bad once Young and Gasol come back....
Still fairly confident Jazz finish with the worst record in the west, especially if Kanter keeps starting in place of the "injured" Favors. Let us all be reminded by the stat that teh Jazz have a super impressive record of 1-22 when Kanter starts.
https://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?id=400488992
The only win that happened when Kanter started. We needed:
Over 50% FG shooting
Over 40% 3pt shooting
39 FT attempts
The only win that happened when Kanter started. We needed:
Over 50% FG shooting
Over 40% 3pt shooting
39 FT attempts
We're that bad when Kanter starts? Damn! I didn't think it was that bad. DL needs to hire you as a number cruncher! That's a depressing stat because I do like Kanter.
Hard to win games when your center allows guys like Andray Blatche to off for 25.
mct
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I would hope any number cruncher the Jazz hire would be bright enough to see that this season Kanter has only started when we were without an important part of our team (Burke early, Favors lately).