Al Jefferson to Utah? ...Mark Stein's Twitter reports
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Location is everything. Seriously. The fact that playing in a different system, with a different coach and an almost perfect PG will do wonders for his game.
seattlejazzfan
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These are the first round picks of the Jazz in the last several drafts that haven't been top 6 picks (IOW - other than Deron and the picks they traded won't be close to that high)....Eric Maynor, Kosta Koufous, Morris Almond, Ronnie Brewer, Kris Humphries, Kirk Snyder, Sasha Pavlovic, Curtis Borchardt, Raul Lopez and DeShawn Stevenson.
That's 10 1st round draft picks in a row - all of which I would trade for Jefferson in a nanosecond. 1st round picks are nice to have if you can make good picks. Obviously, the Jazz cannot, so losing those two picks, if history tells us anything, is, for all intensive purposes, insignificant.
Hell, the Jazz do better in the second round. They'd be better off just giving their first rounder away every year for nothing and saving the cash from the guaranteed contract.
akirac73
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Excellent post...it's like you were reading my mind and wrote everything I was thinking.
I think he means a Top 5 team in the west.
I would agree. Several people have talked about opportunity cost of this deal, that we now cannot use more TPEs, that we lost some picks, but all of these can only bring OK players for the team. First and foremost you need star players, these guys you can build around. After all, only 5 guys can be on the floor at the same time. If you have these 5 great guys, the other team can have 100 OK guys, and it's not going to help them 1 bit. The bottom line is, you need to have the quality first, then think about quantity and filling out the roster. And Big Al is definitely star quality player. As far as first round picks, it's not even that the Jazz can't draft, it's that when you have non lottery picks, or even late lottery ones, it is more of crap shot. You can get a decent guy (Brewer), you can get total bust (Borch), you can even get a very good player (AK), but in average non-lotto pick is just not all that valuable. Picks at the top of the draft are the ones that are most valuable. Other than that, if you gave away 2 picks that are outside of lottery, it's just not a big deal. Getting proven 20-10 25 year old center IS.
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swanvideos
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Were you thinking about the intensive purposes, too?
I love this move and am happy to have Al. But I still think had we traded Boozer last year mid season we could have got Al Jefferson and not given up 2 1st round picks. Maybe even have got one or two back. Probably would have been a 3 way trade but still. Makes me think that Jazz preferred to have Boozer back but lost out. At least they had solid back up plans and did not overvalue Milsap.
Min contract run $420 Thousand dollars. Kufos was scheduled to make $1.3 million this year and $2.2 million next year. So they can sign 3 minimum guys for Kufos's contract. So give me Rod Benson and James Augestine along with Maybe Harris. All of whom were every bit as good or better than Dufos.
Don't be cheap. Who gives a **** about a few non lottery picks? We just got a 20-10 center on the team, who is 25 years of age. And got rid of Koufos in the process.