Is Deron Williams the floor general who can lead the Mavs to the playoffs? (article)

[gomretat]

They still should have matched Mathews. I think it was an easy decision. He was great for us. It wasnt that expensive. Using the idea that he would be paid too much for where he wasnt drafted and how soon was dumb logic. Nothing should have mattered except he was great at defense, was a team guy, could shoot great etc..

The biggest problem I had with it is, they were only one year away from AK coming off the books, and they went out and signed stupid *** Raja Bell for 3 mil a year. So for only 3 more per year they would have a had a lot younger and a lot better player. It was just bad business. They tried to save a few dollars, and it bit them in the ***.

Resigning Mathews would have been great but it was very expensive. I am quite sure it would have put us into the luxury tax and made his salary very high comparatively. And I am sure they would have gone after Korver had they known Portland was going to make that kind of offer but KK was gone by the time we knew were loosing Mathews. Loosing both clearly hurt us but not sure I would have spent that kind of money on Mathews at the time even though he was one of my favs.

 

[Hotdog]

Resigning Mathews would have been great but it was very expensive. I am quite sure it would have put us into the luxury tax and made his salary very high comparatively. And I am sure they would have gone after Korver had they known Portland was going to make that kind of offer but KK was gone by the time we knew were loosing Mathews. Loosing both clearly hurt us but not sure I would have spent that kind of money on Mathews at the time even though he was one of my favs.

His salary was very high comparatively? He would have been under paid comparatively. That was a deal for Mathews. They chose not to believe what he could do would continue.l or get better. Which was dumb.

Ya, it would have barely puts us into the tax, and for only 1 year. They could have also explored dumping AK on someone before the trade deadline. I think that was a possibility. He was still thought of as a good player. A little overpaid, but still good, and with only one year left, I don't see why that would have been so hard to do. Then they just let AK walk too.

I could see if it projected to keep them in the tax for a while, but it didn't. It was a move to save a few pennies in terms of NBA money for 1 year. It was dumb.

 

[Miggs]

I think a Deron and Jazz reunion this year would be fun. I'd welcome him back. He can't be worse than Trey Burke. He'd probably be a lot more humble than Burke too. I could see Burke becoming a Kanter like problem at some point. He wants to make some money.

There's no way I bring Deron back. This is Hayward's team and there is history there (not a good one either) and as much as it pains me to say this, I get the sense that Hayward's ego is semi-fragile. I know many (most?) will think I'm grabbing at straws here but I almost wonder if Hayward excelled last year since Burks was out. I think Hayward knows this is his team but I wonder if he just doesn't know how to share the ball with Burks when he's on the court, and he overthinks ****. I'm probably way off here and overthinking things myself but it's something about which I've wondered.

 

[Hekate]

**** Deron.

 

[Game6Conley]

Even though I've only been a Jazz fan for a few years, I thoroughly enjoy reading thru the Deron threads. That trade was an epic rip off.