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AK and Russian team

AK is not coming back,he is going to sign for CSKA or worst case ST.Petersburg,so i dont understand the deal here..
 
GVC said:
Those teams combined for a 109-137 record.
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in big part because AK missed half of the 2004-2005 season due to MCL strain and broken wrist. Without him Sloan was not able to win even having Boozer and Okur on that team. Jazz fell from playoffs to worst record in team history while AK was out.
 
AKMVP said:
in big part because AK missed half of the 2004-2005 season due to MCL strain and broken wrist. Without him Sloan was not able to win even having Boozer and Okur on that team. Jazz fell from playoffs to worst record in team history while AK was out.
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There are a few obvious problems/omissions with/from this post. I'll let you find them.

Edit: Never mind, here they are:

1. Boozer also missed 31 games that year.
2. The Jazz were 15-26 when AK played that season (has a 30 win team ever made the playoffs?).
3. That was not the worst record in team history.
 
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GVC said:
There are a couple obvious problems/omissions with/from this post. I'll let you find them
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if you referring to playoffs, I mean from being in playoff position at that point of the season when Ginobilli flopped into AK's knee. What is other?
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
There was a time I would have argued for AK, but as far as I'm concerned that tattoo on his back says "UNDERACHIEVER" in all caps. The idiocy represented by that decision boggles the mind.
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catratcho said:
My problem with AK wasn't that he's a role player. My problem with him is that he's role player giving about 70% effort who thinks he should be a #1 option and had a horrible max contract.
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A staggering amount of sense is being made here.
 
After his contract year performance of a career-low in PER, barely scraping above his abysmal '06-'07 campaign in win-shares, only getting older and more set in his ways, THIS is going to be the time when AK shows us. It was all Deron's fault. And Sloan's. And Boozer's. And... wait... they're all gone and AK didn't suddenly burst forth like a flaming butterfly holding excalibur and reclaim his rightful place as the best player on earth?

Anyway, re-sign him. He sticks around after practice and doesn't pout. Or... maybe it's the total opposite. I forget.
 
That's the thing IMO the people wanting to resign him don't expect him to turn any corner or do anything different then what he has it will just come at a much cheaper price.
 
GVC said:
There are a few obvious problems/omissions with/from this post. I'll let you find them.

Edit: Never mind, here they are:

1. Boozer also missed 31 games that year.
2. The Jazz were 15-26 when AK played that season (has a 30 win team ever made the playoffs?).
3. That was not the worst record in team history.
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But the Jazz finished only 11-30 in the games AK did not play. And my bad about worst record, I was to young to be even interested in NBA in 1981... Should have said Sloan's coaching history.
 
The excuses are that people expected AK to be a superstar commensurate with that contract and when he wasn't, they moaned. To make matters worse, you have a coach who doesn't use him properly and a guy coming in, DWill, who wants to be the man diminishing AK's contributions. And an anti-AK type of player in Boozer, who cares only about his stats and not the team. So what do you get, a bad situation for AK, whose game is all about the team. Too bad, they just didn't trade him before DWill's second season. They could've gotten good value and AK could've gone to a team that was better suited for his style of play.
 
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