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What do you guys think? Accurate?
What do you guys think? Accurate?
Al Jefferson featured in SI column: Players on Notice
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Yeah I tend to agree. It's also what Prokhorov said in an interview "It's easy to build a good team, but hard to build a Championship team".
I think Jefferson serves a role of mentoring our young guys (Favors & Kanter) and selling tickets while these guys develop but I don't really see him as our centre piece going forward... (unless he lessen his price tag and/or improves that pick & roll defense).
pickledXgrandma
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If Utah re-signs him then we will forever know we are comfortable being "ok", and not willing to take this team to the next level.
I'm not a big fan of big Al, but if he improves that PnR defense and improves his passes, I do see him as a decent pair with Favors. Favors seem to complement Al nicely with his athleticism.
Having said that I'm not willing to pay more than $8-9m for him, and I'm sure there'll be other teams willing to pay him $12m+ at least.
Brown Notes
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Coaching can help Al. Zone concepts will really help hide his deficiencies and keep him closer to the rim where he is better. Corbs has to use some zone or we will keep seeing the same ol' LOLZPNR.
Keep Jeff in the key and see better D. You can't expect him to ride PGs for 10 feet and then hope he gets back. Also when in man he has to have better rotations behind him. Al got a lot of blame last year for plays that were not on him. Yes he sucks at transferring in between areas but there are strengths to be built upon. A lot is actually on Al himself developing a better understanding of where he is supposed to be under various circumstances. If somebody can convince him that we will win if he plays smarter on D this stuff would get a ton better.
Al will also look a lot better defensively with better defensive players around him. Mo Williams, Marvin, Foye, should be far and away superior to the efforts provided by Bell, CJ and Howard.
Keep Jeff in the key and see better D. You can't expect him to ride PGs for 10 feet and then hope he gets back. Also when in man he has to have better rotations behind him. Al got a lot of blame last year for plays that were not on him. Yes he sucks at transferring in between areas but there are strengths to be built upon. A lot is actually on Al himself developing a better understanding of where he is supposed to be under various circumstances. If somebody can convince him that we will win if he plays smarter on D this stuff would get a ton better.
Al will also look a lot better defensively with better defensive players around him. Mo Williams, Marvin, Foye, should be far and away superior to the efforts provided by Bell, CJ and Howard.
I'm to the point where I'm convinced Al has learned everything he's capable of learning about basketball. The fact that passing out of the double/triple team to an open man continues to be a difficult concept for him to grasp leads me to believe his BB IQ is on the low side.
I agree that the blurb is dead on. I disagree that it's what people have been saying. Here. According to many on Jazzfanz, Al's value is easy to peg. He has no value and plays no defense. All he does is steal Favors' minutes and the Jazz should try to trade him for a second-round pick and waive him if that doesn't work out.
just because
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Couldn't agree more with this. And I'll add that his IQ may be too limited to understand where he's suppose to go on the pick and roll defense.
gregbroncs
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There are a lot of rumors that Dallas wants him. I don't know if that has changed but I think they also have money this off season.
Poor Paul he was terrible before AJ became a Jazz man. Paul is an overall better player who has more dimensions to his game than Jefferson. Paul generally was the guy taking the last shot because he can score inside and out while Jefferson is a better post up guy. The margin is really small but overall Paul is slightly better and he is cheaper.
Yes, that's why Millsap is one of the most eratic scoring power forwards in the game. He needs someone like Jefferson to create his shots for him.
Gyp Rosetti
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This article is old news. It was posted a couple weeks ago.
Hotdog
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I don't even see how this is even a discussion. Al's game has been dissected 57 ways to Sunday. It has been determined and ruled that his game is not conducive to winning basketball. He just a stat stuffer.
Who cares whether or not Millsap is better. Its not the point. As long as Al is our starting center, the offense will be ran through him and we won't win jack ****. We'll be perennial early playoff exits.
The fact that Jazz brass continue on with this experiment, is just disturbing. Every year Al is on the team, is just another wasted year.
If we end up re-signing Al, I'll take a long vacation from the Jazz. I got better **** to do than watch that garbage.
Who cares whether or not Millsap is better. Its not the point. As long as Al is our starting center, the offense will be ran through him and we won't win jack ****. We'll be perennial early playoff exits.
The fact that Jazz brass continue on with this experiment, is just disturbing. Every year Al is on the team, is just another wasted year.
If we end up re-signing Al, I'll take a long vacation from the Jazz. I got better **** to do than watch that garbage.
bjunior
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Give him to Popovich's hands and you'll see how good management can get the max from a player. I mean come on, he humiliated us in playoffs with Blair, Splitter and Diaw.
Al is the one who he is. It's on Corbin to know how to use him properly.
Yes, I begin anti-Corbin campaign already ))
Al is the one who he is. It's on Corbin to know how to use him properly.
Yes, I begin anti-Corbin campaign already ))
Probably the most spot on Big Al analysis I've read.