This.
Clearly Favors wants to be here by opting in for that $12m extension last Summer. Can't say the same about Hayward. Seems to me like he wants to bolt the first chance he gets.
Poll: Should the Jazz Match Hayward's $15.75 a year/4 year Contract?
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This.
Clearly Favors wants to be here by opting in for that $12m extension last Summer. Can't say the same about Hayward. Seems to me like he wants to bolt the first chance he gets.
1) I can see why Charlotte values Gordon so much. They lack playmaking, which Gordon delivers and spacing, an area in which Gordon potentially can be elite, but has been shaky so far.
I don't see the Jazz being able to benefit to the max from Gordon's skills.
2) I think he should be matched. Is massive overpay for the Jazz, but until after year 3 you won't get free agents anyways. I don't expect Exum to be able to recruit before he makes an all star team and earliest time for that is year 3. Also 2016 is the next big free agency hunt with KD. So Gordon's opt out in 2017 will be closer to the value because teams won't save cap room for that summer. Also first year after new TV contract = seizable salary cap boost inc. So if Gordon opts out, he will be offered market value and you can extend Exum early, while also bidding on remaining free agents.
3) Gordon's big payments in the first years are only bad for the Jazz to take on additional cap space rental contracts.
I don't see the Jazz being able to benefit to the max from Gordon's skills.
2) I think he should be matched. Is massive overpay for the Jazz, but until after year 3 you won't get free agents anyways. I don't expect Exum to be able to recruit before he makes an all star team and earliest time for that is year 3. Also 2016 is the next big free agency hunt with KD. So Gordon's opt out in 2017 will be closer to the value because teams won't save cap room for that summer. Also first year after new TV contract = seizable salary cap boost inc. So if Gordon opts out, he will be offered market value and you can extend Exum early, while also bidding on remaining free agents.
3) Gordon's big payments in the first years are only bad for the Jazz to take on additional cap space rental contracts.
bjunior
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apparently they have not done enough lately, so their faults been forgotten
https://jazzfanz.com/showthread.php?16756-Professional-Tank&p=595195&viewfull=1#post595195
7StraightIsGreat
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I don't like the "Hayward doesn't want to be here" argument. He turned down the Jazz's offer last season because he thought he could get more. He was right. I'm sure Hayward will feel just fine playing in Utah or Charlotte with that salary.
QuinSnydersHair
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On the surface it seems fine. We have a ton of cap space and the cap number is supposedly going up a lot starting in a few years. But if we match, re-signing Burks becomes next to impossible imo. Do we really think Burks will accept a 4 year/36M extension at 9M per? Do we think Burks is going to believe that Hayward is worth almost twice as much as he is? Or that he should just hit the market and command as close to Hayward's number as possible since he may believe, and I don't blame him, that he's just as good a player as Hayward, if not better? I believe the latter will be the case.
Yes, we have the cap space and the cap's going to go up. But matching will set a bad precedent imo and it's one we won't be able to retract and pretend didn't happen.
Doesn't matter what he accepts. He's free to work the market and bait someone else to offer him a ****load. A lot of teams won't have too much cap space next year, because LeBron and Melo are already off the market then. Same with Chris Bosh. Kevin Love still has the potential to get traded and exercise his option next year or signalize his willingness to sign an extension with the team trading for him.
QuinSnydersHair
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Are our only options only to match or not match, or can we throw a 5 year, 68M offer at him?
If we can, I would strongly consider doing the latter. 13.6M is almost tolerable and not so much that's going to kill us imo. Maybe he'd take it too. 5M more is 5M more and for all we know, he wants to stay.
If we can, I would strongly consider doing the latter. 13.6M is almost tolerable and not so much that's going to kill us imo. Maybe he'd take it too. 5M more is 5M more and for all we know, he wants to stay.
QuinSnydersHair
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7StraightIsGreat
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I'm far from a Locke fan boy, but this is spot on:
Whatever goes down, remember this: Lindsay is a better GM than anybody on this board.
Whatever goes down, remember this: Lindsay is a better GM than anybody on this board.