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Mystery wing player who wanted to come to Utah

latin jazz

latin jazz

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So it's been mentioned by Tony Jones several times that a pretty good wing was coming to Utah had we signed Mirotic. According to Jones, the Mirotic deal was less than what was reported by Stein (so 12-14M per year). With that in mind, who is that mystery player who was willing to come for 5-7M a year? Ariza? Lamb?
 
My assumption is Ariza or maybe DMC. It’s hard to believe Ariza, though, as he got something like 2 years 24M.
 
infection said:
My assumption is Ariza or maybe DMC. It’s hard to believe Ariza, though, as he got something like 2 years 24M.
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Ariza is a good fit. Maybe he was willing to come for cheap like Jeff Green (ring chasers!) but choose the dollars once that door was closed.
 
My best guess is Trevor Ariza. Tony kept mentioning how the reports of us offering 3/45 to Mirotic were wrong and our offer was lower. And that the money we were saving in that deal was going to allow us to get this mystery wing too. So I think it was probably a guy who ended up getting 10-12ish million per year elsewhere (maybe a little more). Ariza or Jeremy Lamb most likely. I don't think it was Demarre Carroll.
 
latin jazz said:
So it's been mentioned by Tony Jones several times that a pretty good wing was coming to Utah had we signed Mirotic. According to Jones, the Mirotic deal was less than what was reported by Stein (so 12-14M per year). With that in mind, who is that mystery player who was willing to come for 5-7M a year? Ariza? Lamb?
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I honestly don't care, because I think we did an amazing job this off-season. I like Mirotic but I feel the Jazz assembled an even better team than we would've, if we signed him. Media personalities are hilarious. If Tony Jones stated several times that a "pretty good wing is coming if we would've signed Mirotic." why not just tell us who it is? Mirotic agreed to a contract with Barcelona, so why doesn't Jones just state who it was? I'm guessing his sources are made up and he was saying that for publicity?? Also I can't find anything where Jones stated that we would get a quality wing with a Mirotic signing, where did you find that?
 
Lakers_Slapper said:
I honestly don't care, because I think we did an amazing job this off-season. I like Mirotic but I feel the Jazz assembled an even better team than we would've, if we signed him. Media personalities are hilarious. If Tony Jones stated several times that a "pretty good wing is coming if we would've signed Mirotic." why not just tell us who it is? Mirotic agreed to a contract with Barcelona, so why doesn't Jones just state who it was? I'm guessing his sources are made up and he was saying that for publicity?? Also I can't find anything where Jones stated that we would get a quality wing with a Mirotic signing, where did you find that?
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His sources aren't made up. He was talking up Mike Conley for weeks before the trade went through. He said the Jazz were in discussions with Bojan before the deal with Bojan went through. He said Jeff Green was a name to watch as someone the Jazz might target before it was announced the Jazz signed hIm. He was basically first on all Jazz related news this summer. His source is obviously someone within the Jazz organization. He probably doesn't want to say who the player was because it might hurt his relationship with the source, the Jazz or possibly that player. He also probably doesn't want to field a bunch of questions about what didn't happen. As for where he said the Jazz would have gotten a quality wing with Mirotic, Twitter and local radio/tv interviews.
 
Lakers_Slapper said:
I honestly don't care, because I think we did an amazing job this off-season. I like Mirotic but I feel the Jazz assembled an even better team than we would've, if we signed him. Media personalities are hilarious. If Tony Jones stated several times that a "pretty good wing is coming if we would've signed Mirotic." why not just tell us who it is? Mirotic agreed to a contract with Barcelona, so why doesn't Jones just state who it was? I'm guessing his sources are made up and he was saying that for publicity?? Also I can't find anything where Jones stated that we would get a quality wing with a Mirotic signing, where did you find that?
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Because you don't give up your sources like that.
 
latin jazz said:
Ariza is a good fit. Maybe he was willing to come for cheap like Jeff Green (ring chasers!) but choose the dollars once that door was closed.
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Agreed. Ariza would have been a good fit, but don't fault him for getting the cash when Bogey signed. Dude has miles on his legs, but still would have been damn good in rotation.
 
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