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Jazz To sign William Howard

infection said:
The same reason they would buy second round draft picks and not sign them. I don’t know.
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Increasing competition for camp and increasing the chance of landing a cheap rotation piece for a team that will be operating over the cap going forward is a good strategy and is worth paying some money for. At least that's what I assume their reasoning is.
 
stitches said:
Increasing competition for camp and increasing the chance of landing a cheap rotation piece for a team that will be operating over the cap going forward is a good strategy and is worth paying some money for.
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$1M for? I dunno. We were selling off second rounders for $500k and I thought it was silly. Now apparently it makes sense to dump a “pittance” of a cool million to look at someone in summer league.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I’d rather us go this route with our 12-15 guys. Get guys that are likely good enough to play a small role and have upside to be valuable contributors... rather than just finding re-tread washed vets that have no future value.
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Salary ballast (vet minimum on a high-tenure player is significant).

Danilo Gallinari, Andre Iguodala, whoever else that is really good on a team playing for nothing (Eric Gordon if Orlando somehow faceplants?).

I’m also not sure where these guys are getting minutes, but obviously if anyone of these guys hits (a la Royce or Ingles), it’s a home-run.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Salary ballast (vet minimum on a high-tenure player is significant).

Danilo Gallinari, Andre Iguodala, whoever else that is really good on a team playing for nothing (Eric Gordon if Orlando somehow faceplants?).

I’m also not sure where these guys are getting minutes, but obviously if anyone of these guys hits (a la Royce or Ingles), it’s a home-run.
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I'd rather make the long term play and hope one of these three guys become a cheap contributor. Maybe not even as big as Royce... more along the lines of a healthy Neto maybe. I don't know that we have another big move planned. I'd rather have the long term value that one of these guys could bring and I'm not sure we can nab a Livingston and just sit them every night and have them be happy about that.

Even if one of these guys flashes when we have an injury it could really help us in trades because they'd have some value. We don't have the draft capital to really sweeten a deal right now.

This is one area the Jazz have consistently done really well on... and I am not going to question their talent evaluation. There would be no issue cutting any three of these guys if something good came on the waiver wire. Already over the cap... likely these deals are limited on guaranteed money for 2020 (maybe 2019 too).
 
infection said:
$1M for? I dunno. We were selling off second rounders for $500k and I thought it was silly. Now apparently it makes sense to dump a “pittance” of a cool million to look at someone in summer league.
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We didn't have readily available roster spots last year. We do have several this year. It's not the same situation.
 
mongoose01 said:
Wouldn’t being picked up by an nba team indicate he isn’t falling through the cracks? I’m interested to see what he is signed to and what his contract looks like. If he’s signed wouldn’t that indicate he didn’t slip through the cracks?


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My comment was in relation to someone calling him the next Batum. It seemed like people already pegged him as a 15+ minute guy. I was just trying to pump the brakes a little. It's highly unlikely they are gonna find someone in Europe who's gonna come right in and be a starter. If that athlete is in Europe, several teams are looking at him and he's already created a buzz.
 
stitches said:
We didn't have readily available roster spots last year. We do have several this year. It's not the same situation.
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It was a couple years, but I do get the roster crunch... I just don't think its fair to complain when we sell picks and then complain when they invest in other dudes and then end up cutting them.

I think I argued that you should keep the picks instead of selling them and cut the guys if they weren't good enough... landing a really cheap contributor is such a huge deal that it's okay to get a guy in to SL and if you whiff just cut him. sometimes you can tell dudes will be solid in that small of a sample size.

Even if we cut all three of the guys we picked this year I applaud the front office and ownership for investing and taking some chances/risk.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
So much for a couple of our second rounders making the roster.

When it comes to these moves I guess you just give the FO the benefit of the doubt and hope for the best.
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Still two roster spots and two 2-ways to go, am I right?
 
They can take 20 guys into training camp.

Conley, Mudiay, NWG, Mitchell, Exum, Oni, Bogdanovic, Jingles, Howard, O’Neale, Green, Niang, Gobert, Davis, Bradley makes 15.

Five spots left (with two being two way contracts) between Brantley, JWF, Cousins, Kidd, Reed, etc.

Could also bring in a couple more non-guaranteed veterans for an opportunity to compete for an end-of-the-bench role.
 
Ellis269 said:
I still remember in 2013 when the local rec center advertised a Jr. Jazz event at the local high school and hyped that the player attending was over 7 feet tall.

We were hoping for Rudy (who was still a raw rookie bouncing between the Jazz and the D-league) but got Andris Biedrins instead. It was a disaster. Guy clearly had no interest in being there with the kids. I think he was cut a few weeks later.
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wow. They sent a guy who the Jazz basically took as a favor to another team to a Jr. Jazz event? That's terrible! Haha. That's seriously terrible.
 
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