Josh Howard has agreed to terms with Utah
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billyshelby
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Excellent news. As I said in another post, the downside to this is Burks loses minutes out of the gate (although Howard might need a little time to get the offense down.) But there are two big advantages. 1) A little "watch and learn" time for Burks to start the year is not such a bad thing. 2) With the compressed season, we're going to have injury/fatigue issues. Somebody out of Hayward/Miles/Bell/Burks is going to get hurt. So Burks will absolutely get minutes, and Ty will put him in the rotation if he can beat somebody out.
Howard gives us a solid, if unspectacular 5 at the wings. Better than having some rookie backup to the other 4.
Howard gives us a solid, if unspectacular 5 at the wings. Better than having some rookie backup to the other 4.
cctrackstar
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Nuts, beat me to it.
Anyway,
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Darn, it had better be a short deal for pennies on the dollar, because if this restricts development of our talent I will be pissed.
And he better keep his tail out of jail.
Anyway,
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Darn, it had better be a short deal for pennies on the dollar, because if this restricts development of our talent I will be pissed.
And he better keep his tail out of jail.
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cctrackstar
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KOC just admitted one year deal on the radio, 1320
spycam1
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This hinders our future in two ways, imo.
1. It takes away playing time from Hayward and Burks, setting back their development. You can sell that crap all you want about having a "mentor", but imo getting playing time is much more beneficial to one's development than a has-been mentor.
2. If Howard does end up being decent this season, that increases our wins, possibly getting us the 8th spot in the West, causing us to lose a lottery pick in a LOADED 2012 draft.
1. It takes away playing time from Hayward and Burks, setting back their development. You can sell that crap all you want about having a "mentor", but imo getting playing time is much more beneficial to one's development than a has-been mentor.
2. If Howard does end up being decent this season, that increases our wins, possibly getting us the 8th spot in the West, causing us to lose a lottery pick in a LOADED 2012 draft.
cctrackstar
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Unless the team wants to have 15 players, this kills all of the non point guards at camp. (Paul Carter)
cctrackstar
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No losing on purpose, the only lottery pick I want in the next ten years are traded ones. (golden state pick hopefuly)
spycam1
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I'm not saying our guys shouldn't try to win, I'm saying that, given our current roster, there's a good chance we will be in the lottery. Might as well just do our best, develop our youngsters in the process, and be excited about adding another potential All-Star through the 2012 draft.
sirslimjim
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Per Wikipedia - "On December 8, 2007, Howard scored a career high 47 points against the Utah Jazz."
Now it makes sense
Now it makes sense
On second thought, may be KOC thinks there is enough character guys on the team to keep Howard in line...
Kyoto
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That's funny, the ladies say the same thing about me ;D
JimLes
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You ARE saying the team brass should try and get us to lose. If the team have a chance to add a player who would add 5 wins to our total, then they should.
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Yep. Dunk over Boozer, get multi-year deal with the Jazz since you are obviously so awesome. Score big against the Jazz, they bring you in when everyone else would rather have you euthanized. Oooh ooh, I sure hope AI had a couple of big games against us, that would be our back-up back-up PG right there.
LOL.. that's funny.. cos even when we had him, he was never really there...