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Jazz Officially Matched Hayward According to Woj

PointGod_AlecBurks said:
So basically the Jazz are going to be playing three guards and 2 pf's.
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Wings are interchangeable and most teams have hybrid PF/C's. The league is athletic, not the 80's style physical game. Is Duncan a center? Is Bosh? Hibbert is and he was exposed in the playoffs; he just wasn't fast enough to guard anyone.

As for the SG/SF observation, Hayward is 6'8"; that's plenty tall enough to play SF. And it's not like he hasn't played the position. Corbin finally had Burks & Hayward playing together a lot over the final couple of weeks.
 
PKM said:
Stellar defense.

I'm more just pissed that this team will never be GREAT.. and we are more of less stuck with it. (I'm being a bit dramatic, I know.. but it's kind of fun.)
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Don't forget less shooting too:)



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PKM said:
Stellar defense.

I'm more just pissed that this team will never be GREAT.. and we are more of less stuck with it. (I'm being a bit dramatic, I know.. but it's kind of fun.)
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But we have Dante now. And then when we get lucky and win the lottery next year we will have jabari parkers giant friend too.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Ehhh, it was a bad extension. There's no reason to extend a 30-year old role player that didn't even do his role - or at least what should be his role (protecting the rim) - well. Especially since he wasn't exactly a poster-boy for good health, either.
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Memos role on that team was clearly to spread the floor for boozer. And he did that very very well.
 
b_line said:
Memos role on that team was clearly to spread the floor for boozer. And he did that very very well.
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At the cost of any possibility of a good defensive team*? That's stupid. Pure and simple. And that doesn't even address the idea of a team in one of the smallest markets in pro sports already being in cap hell, then extending a 30-year with nagging injuries.

*a good defense starts and ends with a rim-protector. The Jazz should have known more than most by that time, even if they didn't yet have an answer, but they had a year to figure it out. That extension was a fear-driven business decision, the fact that the injury happened showed very clearly that good basketball decisions are also good business decisions.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Ehhh, it was a bad extension. There's no reason to extend a 30-year old role player that didn't even do his role - or at least what should be his role (protecting the rim) - well. Especially since he wasn't exactly a poster-boy for good health, either.
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Memo missed only 22 games through his first 5 seasons with the Jazz, averaging 33 minutes per game. His role was to spread the floor on those strangely built teams, which he did very well.

I didn't like the extension at the time, but it wasn't horrible.
 
GVC said:
Nope. His extension covered 2010/11 and 2011/12 and was signed in the Summer of 2009. His injury happened at the end of the 2009/10 season.

Many of us thought it made more sense to wait until the end of the 2009/10 season before re-signing Memo. It wasn't a bad extension when it was signed, but it wasn't a no-brainer either (IMO).
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I remember questioning it but then reading something from Marc stein that was professing the genius of O'Conner in locking up our before the market got to him. Good extension or not, that team had gone as far as they were ever getting with memo starting at center next to boozer.
 
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