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NBA Free Agency Moves in General (related to the Jazz, but not just moves made by the Jazz)

Catchall said:
The Jazz were developing their young talent and drafting more of it with lottery picks. That's how rebuilding works.
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My point Exactly.
 
George Hill has no team I see to sign a huge contract with. He's going to go via sign and trade I'd bet.

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fishonjazz said:
Jazz didn't know hayward would be as good as he became though so figured adding good players too soon would make us a mediocre treadmill team. We didn't have rudy yet. We were still rebuilding and acquiring assets.
Hindsight is 20/20.
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We were already heading towards being a treadmill team. Lindsey "skipped steps" in the rebuild. Seriously, is there a huge difference between drafting 12th and 16th? Jazz were never going to be bad enough to do the Philly shuffle. Doing a true rebuild would have required trading Favs, Hayward, Burks (at the time he was thought of as a "core" player) in order to get 2-3 Top-5 picks. That's how you rebuild. For whatever Lindsey says, it was not a true rebuild.

Jazz could have had the exact same team, minus Exum, and made the playoffs every year after the Burke draft. Just look at where they would have picked as a 6th-8th seed and deduct the extra picks or positioning from losing. The other difference is that they would have been in the middle of the pack salary wise by adding a couple of vets. Millers went cheap and scraped the plate for every last dollar before Gail stepped in and set up the board. It was very evident - and the reason she did it - that the boys didn't have the passion for basketball and the Jazz that Larry H. had.

Now that said, Lindsey has made up for his draft mistakes by working trades and free agency. He also picked a helluva coach, I don't doubt for ONE SECOND that having Quin (instead of Sloan and Ty) isn't driving players to consider Utah. JJ came knocking on the door; I think that surprised everyone. Other decent names are on the list of those allegedly wanting to play for the Jazz. Teo wants in. Mitchell wanted in.
 
Jack Strop said:
Hindsight is great, isn't it? The plan was to extend Hill. HE was making what, $8M/per. Jazz brought him in, probably thinking they could extend him at $12M tops. But then he played like an all-star and decided he was worth more...much more. Reportedly, Jazz were willing to go as high as 4/$80M. Hill wanted a LOT more.

But Hayward was tired of losing. Do you think if Lindsey had not brought in Hill and JJ, but assembled the same old cast to compete for the 8th seed, the Jazz would even have a CHANCE at retaining Gordon? I don't.

You know what made it a bad trade? The years before. It was quickly apparent Burke was a bust. Everyone knew Dante was a project. But Lindsey was content to roll with 5 guys and a bunch of stiffs. What IF - instead of playing Elijah, C Johnson, etc., Lindsey had brought in a vet PG and a sixth man? Jazz make the playoffs the last 3 years. Hayward is happy, Jazz are improving. No drama. Instead, the Millers made MILLIONS by having the 28th lowest payroll in the league (30th last year). And now, Hayward likely wants to see Utah commit to spending to win before he'd ever consider remaining.
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Utah traded #12 to Atlanta. Indy traded Hill to Utah. Atlanta traded Teague to Indy.

Had we traded #12 for Teague, we would have had a healthy Teague for 82 games, not 49 like Hill.

We would have won more games. If we finish second in the West, Teague re-signs for 20 per (which I said that is what he would get and I was mocked her for saying), and Hayward is committed to coming back...

Damn. I'd take that over what we are doing now.
 
green said:
Teagues at under 20 million per year? The Hill trade looks worse and worse every day.
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You still like Teague more than Hill? Even after I've wrecked your arguments to the point that you won't respond even after I quote and tag you?

Damn man. When did you become so irrational?
 
This is a great year for dudes to get overpaid. Freaking nutty **** going on right now. Market has to stabilize next year, right?
 
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