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KOC Genuis?

Not quite a genius; he wasn't the one that actually proposed the deal, it was NJ. Had NJ not proposed, he may have sat on his hands and we would be losing DWill for nothing now.
 
Good move to rebuild the team around Favors and two other lotto picks. Getting Burks is a plus. The way D.Will was playing, the Jazz did a good job of selling high with the trade. The market for him wasn't going to get much hotter. Obviously the Jazz like Favors and felt that a dominant big is more important than a dominant PG....or at least a dominant big is more difficult to get. I'm sure they were also looking ahead at the coming lotteries where they would have NJ's and GS's picks.
 
Just imagine had we not made that trade. we would have no favors, no kanter, no harris, and possibly even no burks becasue maybe we would have been better with D-will and gotten stuck with one of the morris twins!! also we would have no golden state pick this next draft and by the time the lockout ends, we'd have no D-will!!! holy cow... i think that deal shaved off a good 3 to 4 years of rebuilding and sucking it up night in and night out!!!!
 
Basketball_Romantic23 said:
Just imagine had we not made that trade. we would have no favors, no kanter, no harris, and possibly even no burks becasue maybe we would have been better with D-will and gotten stuck with one of the morris twins!! also we would have no golden state pick this next draft and by the time the lockout ends, we'd have no D-will!!! holy cow... i think that deal shaved off a good 3 to 4 years of rebuilding and sucking it up night in and night out!!!!
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Basketball_Romantic23 said:
Just imagine had we not made that trade. we would have no favors, no kanter, no harris, and possibly even no burks becasue maybe we would have been better with D-will and gotten stuck with one of the morris twins!! also we would have no golden state pick this next draft and by the time the lockout ends, we'd have no D-will!!! holy cow... i think that deal shaved off a good 3 to 4 years of rebuilding and sucking it up night in and night out!!!!
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I don't think we would have been much better - if at all. DWill was an injured malcontent who had already stopped running the plays. In fact, after starting off 27-13, Jazz then went 4-13 WITH Deron before the trade. So just slightly over .500, and on a downward spiral with a cancer in the locker room and a coaching staff and team in disarray. Hard to see the Jazz do much better than 8-17 over those last 25 games, especially given Deron's injury.


But yes, I do agree the rebuilding might be 3-4 years ahead of where it could have been. Of course, there's no telling what we could have received for Deron had we held on to him. Personally, I really like what KOC did receive and I'm glad he pulled the trigger. In any case, I think the Jazz have been very fortunate that both Hayward and Favors look to be solid starters, with Derrick a potential franchise player. If that happens, getting just Favors straight up for Deron would have been a steal. And if Kanter can become what we hoped Fesenko would...a big physical presence inside...oh man, I hope we only lose 1 season. But these legal battles could easily extend into next year.
 
Hoping the rank-and-file NBA guys start a revolt. They are being horribly represented by their 'leaders', who aren't operating in the average players' best interest at all!
KOC has handled a couple difficult situations with a lot of class and in the teams best interest, which is his job. First, AK, then DWill. Not many GM's could have pulled this off as well as KoC did, IMO...
 
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