Well, the Jazz would be a little worse without Boozer. The 14m or so he would want a year isn't worth the little extra he would offer.
I like Hayward, I just thought the Jazz could have gone after Davis or Patterson and been better off. Time will tell
DWill will bail if the Jazz turn into the New Orleans Hornets
They potentially have a dominant center in Fes, only if they could figure out how to do a brain transplant.
IAWTP.
I don't know that Hayward gives them that much right now that they couldn't have gotten from Korver. Yes, they'll need a replacement for AK at SF. Even if CJ starts, neither Matthews nor Korver have the size to match up with other SF's. But it would have been much easier, IMO, to get a SF with Ak's expiring than a 4/5.
My wish list was Cousins, Monroe and Davis with Aldrich as the door prize. Not that I'm that high on Cole. I just think when you have a 5 with a career-threatening injury, two others named Doufos and Ka-lown, and just one PF on the roster, you have to draft a big.
1. We'll be worse without Boozer. But his cost would be $28M if the Jazz were unable to dump AK at the deadline. Even IF there were a couple of teams with close to $17M in cap space, it would cost us a king's ransom to do a salary dump. It took our first-rounder (Maynor) to basically just give away Harpring's contract (almost all of it would have been covered by insurance). To assume a cap hit of $17M (cash outflow of about $8M), a team would probably demand a couple of first-round picks + cash.
2. Hayward will probably be a decent rotation guy at the 3.
3. DWill wants to win a championship. Nothing wrong with that. And if Greg gets cheap, then Williams has every right to bail or ask for a trade.
4. Who knows re: a center. Maybe we luck into a deal like the one for Haywood. Some teams are going to want to dump veterans at the deadline. Let's hope we can swing a deal instead of just looking to offload salary ourselves.
