green
Well-Known Member
Here is the reality:
Most times you have to vastly overpay in the FA market unless you are signing a superstar, which Utah probably never will.
If you are going to overpay, you have to be willing to go over the cap at some point.
The Millers aren't willing to go over the cap.
Don't EVER get your hopes up in the FA market. I highly doubt we will ever be players in the FA market. Ownership will never spend enough or commit to spending enough to allow us to overpay some role player to come here.
Whether that is smart or not, that is another debate. I'd say what the Jazz do is smart 90% of the time.
Another thing is (and this should probably be in another thread) is that you can't let your home grown talent get away...but you can't afford as a cheap, small market team, to overpay your "eh" homegrown talent. This is where Gobert scares the crap out of me. You can only afford three max players. We know who two of them are: Hayward and Favors. If Gobert worth the third slot?
I'm not sure he is a good enough offensive player to take that slot. I'm afraid that his salary will hurt us more than his talents will help us. I'm scared he is another AK. A very, very good player, possibly All Star level, but not good enough to take us anywhere and his salary just prevents us from going where we want to go.
Most times you have to vastly overpay in the FA market unless you are signing a superstar, which Utah probably never will.
If you are going to overpay, you have to be willing to go over the cap at some point.
The Millers aren't willing to go over the cap.
Don't EVER get your hopes up in the FA market. I highly doubt we will ever be players in the FA market. Ownership will never spend enough or commit to spending enough to allow us to overpay some role player to come here.
Whether that is smart or not, that is another debate. I'd say what the Jazz do is smart 90% of the time.
Another thing is (and this should probably be in another thread) is that you can't let your home grown talent get away...but you can't afford as a cheap, small market team, to overpay your "eh" homegrown talent. This is where Gobert scares the crap out of me. You can only afford three max players. We know who two of them are: Hayward and Favors. If Gobert worth the third slot?
I'm not sure he is a good enough offensive player to take that slot. I'm afraid that his salary will hurt us more than his talents will help us. I'm scared he is another AK. A very, very good player, possibly All Star level, but not good enough to take us anywhere and his salary just prevents us from going where we want to go.
