Jazz Just Signed Trevor Booker According To Woj

[GVC]

I sure wish year two of his team wasn't a player option.

I don't think it is. Second year is unguaranteed, so the Jazz can keep him for $4.775mm next season if the want.

 

[stitches]

I don't think it is. Second year is unguaranteed, so the Jazz can keep him for $4.775mm next season if the want.

At this point he seems like a steal at 4.7m. Even if he's our bench energy big, it seems like a steal if he keeps producing like that. I'd probably be looking to extend him. I don't think something like 4 year 18-20 million would be unfair.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Size/positional issues can be real overrated and I can be guilty of that. Booker is a bad man and I'm a big fan.

Booker doesn't have range and he's undersized, but he plays with amazing effort and a bad *** attitude. I don't think he's a starter on a contender, but I'd love to see him as one of Utah's subs. He's playing about 20 mins/per, which I think is perfect given the energy he expends.

 

[Deleted member 848]

lol


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He is the stretch 4 trend.



lol


Prophetic

Let's remember that Booker had drained one (ONE!!) three before he signed at Utah.


He's a stretch-4, but not a pick-and-pop kinda dude. He's better. Looks like my analysis was pretty spot on otherwise.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Thats wrong.

He brings "nasty" in spades.

Also Trevor Booker has GREAT hands defensively for a Forward.

Awesome signing. Now im cool with trading Jarnell Stokes.

Lol Cy didn't quote this.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Trevor Booker is a great signing, Now I'm not pissed about the Jarnell Stokes trade. Hes very nasty and tenacious, He always plays with a mean streak and also has great hands defensively for a forward.

He will also run the floor in transition, rebound and throw down plenty of thunderous dunks.

More PGAB brilliance

 

[Deleted member 848]

Sorry. I'm not convinced that paying a MLE-sized deal for a player that might be the 5th-best big on a roster poised to miss the playoffs is particularly worth it. If the Jazz couldn't find another way to spend that $5 million in cap between now and next July, all they'd have to do is spend that as a roster bonus. Oh no.

If it comes out that the second-year is a team-option/minimally guaranteed, then this changes things a bit.

Lmfao

 

[Hantlers]

Booker doesn't have range and he's undersized, but he plays with amazing effort and a bad *** attitude. I don't think he's a starter on a contender, but I'd love to see him as one of Utah's subs. He's playing about 20 mins/per, which I think is perfect given the energy he expends.

Booker doesn't have range? He's a PF averaging 1 3PM per game so far (small sample size, I know). I don't think that I would say that Booker doesn't have range. Like Dala said, he's not a pick and pop guy, but he can hit the open outside shot, and that's valuable.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Booker doesn't have range? He's a PF averaging 1 3PM per game so far (small sample size, I know). I don't think that I would say that Booker doesn't have range. Like Dala said, he's not a pick and pop guy, but he can hit the open outside shot, and that's valuable.

He was 1-10 before this season and he's 3-7 on his 3's thus far, but I wouldn't call him a threat to shoot corner 3's on a regular basis. His one 3-PT attempt against Phoenix was pretty ugly (and the other was a desperation shot, IIRC). His strength is definitely his inside game. Of course maybe if the PG and wings were hitting their 3's, it would be less important to have a PF who could put up 4-5 attempts/game.

 

[Hantlers]

He was 1-10 before this season and he's 3-7 on his 3's thus far, but I wouldn't call him a threat to shoot corner 3's. His strength is definitely his inside game. Of course maybe if the PG and wings were hitting their 3's, it would be less important to have a PF who could put up 4-5 attempts/game.

Again, so far he has shown that he does have range. It has been a small sample size, but he has shown that he has range. We aren't discussing what his strength is, merely whether he has range or not. Don't try to change the argument.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Again, so far he has shown that he does have range. It has been a small sample size, but he has shown that he has range. We aren't discussing what his strength is, merely whether he has range or not. Don't try to change the argument.

OK, I'll give you that in a very small sample size, he's now hit 3-7, which is very good. Let's see if he ends up at 35% or higher. Maybe instead of "range," which even Trey has, I should say he can not only reach the rim on his shot, but make them consistently. As I edited in my post, his one 3 PT attempt in the Phoenix game was pretty ugly. And IINM, the second could be excused because I think it was a heave as the shot-clock was expiring (unless I'm confusing it with another shot).

In any case, I think we can all agree he might be one of the steals of free agency: 7 pts and 5 rebounds in 22 mins was not overly impressive last season. He had better stats in his 2nd year. He's been much better in 3 games for the Jazz, though, so let's see if he can maintain that success. However, I don't see Booker all of a sudden making the leap to a great starter. He's better suited to being a force off the bench.

 

[GVC]

He was 1-10 before this season...

Since he only attempted 10 in his first four years, it's probably safe to assume that most or all of those attempts were buzzer beaters, and that there's a good chance many of them were from quite deep. This was the case with Millsap before his Miami game. Everyone was citing his 3-pt performance prior to the game, but when I went back and checked only one or two of his 3s weren't taken at the end of the shot clock or quarter.