Rumor: Jazz prepared to match 'any offer' for Hayward.

[b_line]

I have always thought he would get about what favors got. So yeah, around 12 per year. Max scares me.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Sign him to a deal that makes him tradeable, that's all I ask. Don't want to be stuck with a toxic contract that we can't get rid of.

 

[colton]

This. They need to say this. If for no other reason than to scare away potential bidders.

It might scare away potential bidders. Or it might just make people make a rather large offer.

A very different tactic might be just as effective: leak to the press that the Jazz won't match anything over $10 mill/year. And then when a team offers $10.5 mill, bam! Match!

 

[colton]

By the way, that's why I doubt any such rumor actually originated from the Jazz. There's really nothing to be gained either way. It's not like other teams will really make their offers based on a rumor like this. Or at least not if they have any intelligence.

 

[mellow]

However this breaks, Lindsey and Zanick are going to earn their money, and possibly derail their careers with this move.

 

[franklin]

The Jazz gave hayward every chance to be a superstar and he doesn't have it. At best he's the third best player on a championship squad. You don't pay those players 13+ million. I've always thought 11 million a year for four years was fair. 12 is pushing it, but I could see the Jazz matching an offer of 12 million.

You want to bet on that? I don't, really, but I'd bet Hayward gets the upper end of the 12.5 split.

 

[CALJAZZFAN]

Jazz say this whether or not they intend to actually match. They hope it scares off other teams so they can sign Hayward to a less than max deal. Might be true, might just be a bluff.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

What would be an acceptable haul for Hayward in a sign and trade. I think we could get two 2015 1sts out of phx. They own LAs next year and their own. Is that good enough?

 

[Stoked]

Big Hayward fan but not at a max contract. Hope that's not what thy spend on him.

 

[Sneakers]

Basketball should just have arbitration, like baseball

 

[colton]

Jazz say this whether or not they intend to actually match. They hope it scares off other teams so they can sign Hayward to a less than max deal. Might be true, might just be a bluff.

Why is that a better strategy than saying they DON'T intend to match offers? That way they'd presumably get low offers, which they could then match. This way if they do get offers, they will be very high offers. (That's of course assuming other teams use these types of things when making their offers, which I'm quite sure they don't.)

 

[b_line]

Why is that a better strategy than saying they DON'T intend to match offers? That way they'd presumably get low offers, which they could then match. This way if they do get offers, they will be very high offers. (That's of course assuming other teams use these types of things when making their offers, which I'm quite sure they don't.)

I think the jazz strategy is probably similar to your rep power. People are all like "man, don't wanna get on colter's downside, he'll hit me with that negative 150 rep blast...." But what really happens when you have to actually lay it on the table? No one knows how much rep you actually have. Maybe the jazz are only bluffing and they won't match a max deal. Who knows though?