What's new
By:

Rank our bigs.....

Ferguson_Mellochill

Ferguson_Mellochill

Well-Known Member
2019 Prediction Contest Winner
Assuming no one gets traded (yet), what priority should each of our bigs get in terms of minutes next year? This considers winning games, developing players for the future, and protecting a player's value in the league.

Also, how many minutes should each player get, assuming they play primarily the C and/or PF position?

Players are: Derrick Favors, Al Jefferson, Enes Kanter, Paul Millsap and Jeremy Evans.

I'll start --

1 Derrick Favors: 26 mins. at PF, 6 mins at C (32 mins.)
2 Al Jefferson: 31 mins. at C (31 mins.)
3 Paul Millsap: 20 mins. at PF, 8 mins. at SF (28 mins.)
4 Enes Kanter: 11 mins. at C, 2 mins. at PF (13 mins.)
5 Jeremy Evans: 10 mins at SF (10 mins.)
 
Catchall said:
Assuming no one gets traded (yet), what priority should each of our bigs get in terms of minutes next year? This considers winning games, developing players for the future, and protecting a player's value in the league.

Also, how many minutes should each player get, assuming they play primarily the C and/or PF position?

Players are: Derrick Favors, Al Jefferson, Enes Kanter, Paul Millsap and Jeremy Evans.

I'll start --

1 Derrick Favors: 26 mins. at PF, 6 mins at C (32 mins.)
2 Al Jefferson: 27 mins. at C (27 mins.)
3 Paul Millsap: 20 mins. at PF, 8 mins. at SF (28 mins.)
4 Enes Kanter: 15 mins. at C, 2 mins. at PF (17 mins.)
5 Jeremy Evans: 2 mins at PF (2 mins.)
Click to expand...


FIFY.

For the beginning of the season of course, if Enes proves himself, give him more minutes.
 
Catchall said:
Assuming no one gets traded (yet), what priority should each of our bigs get in terms of minutes next year? This considers winning games, developing players for the future, and protecting a player's value in the league.

Also, how many minutes should each player get, assuming they play primarily the C and/or PF position?

Players are: Derrick Favors, Al Jefferson, Enes Kanter, Paul Millsap and Jeremy Evans.

I'll start --

1 Derrick Favors: 26 mins. at PF, 6 mins at C (32 mins.)
2 Al Jefferson: 31 mins. at C (31 mins.)
3 Paul Millsap: 20 mins. at PF, 8 mins. at SF (28 mins.)
4 Enes Kanter: 11 mins. at C, 2 mins. at PF (13 mins.)
5 Jeremy Evans: 10 mins at SF (10 mins.)
Click to expand...

I would lower everyone's minutes a little bit and find some more time for Kanter.

Pretty accurate to what I want though.

Also, I would take Evans out and put Carroll in. No minutes for Evans unless he has majorly improved over Carroll.
 
Catchall said:
Assuming no one gets traded (yet), what priority should each of our bigs get in terms of minutes next year? This considers winning games, developing players for the future, and protecting a player's value in the league.

Also, how many minutes should each player get, assuming they play primarily the C and/or PF position?

Players are: Derrick Favors, Al Jefferson, Enes Kanter, Paul Millsap and Jeremy Evans.

I'll start --

1 Derrick Favors: 26 mins. at PF, 6 mins at C (32 mins.)
2 Al Jefferson: 31 mins. at C (31 mins.)
3 Paul Millsap: 20 mins. at PF, 8 mins. at SF (28 mins.)
4 Enes Kanter: 11 mins. at C, 2 mins. at PF (13 mins.)
5 Jeremy Evans: 10 mins at SF (10 mins.)
Click to expand...

If Kanter gets 11 minutes a game and Al gets more than 30 I'll puke. Likewise, if Milsap gets 20 minutes while Al gets 30, I'll puke.
So in other words, if we don't trade Al I'll puke. I might as well start training to become bullimic.
 
Favors 30-35
Millsap 28-32
Jefferson 23-26 off the bench
Kanter 15-20
Evans - none
 
Weezur said:
If Kanter gets 11 minutes a game and Al gets more than 30 I'll puke. Likewise, if Milsap gets 20 minutes while Al gets 30, I'll puke.
So in other words, if we don't trade Al I'll puke. I might as well start training to become bullimic.
Click to expand...

All puking aside, our $14M/year 20& 9 leading scorer gets less than 30 minutes?
And if we give more minutes to Kanter, we pretty much have to take them from Jefferson.

All of this shows that we do actually have a bit of a log-jam. To be honest, Millsap needs to accept coming off the bench if the Jazz are going to get to the next level, but it remains to be seen if he'll do that.
 
Catchall said:
All puking aside, our $14M/year 20& 9 leading scorer gets less than 30 minutes?
And if we give more minutes to Kanter, we pretty much have to take them from Jefferson.

All of this shows that we do actually have a bit of a log-jam. To be honest, Millsap needs to accept coming off the bench if the Jazz are going to get to the next level, but it remains to be seen if he'll do that.
Click to expand...

I didn't say that your minutes distribution didn't make sense. I just said that I'd puke at it if it happened and it probably will happen.
Oh, and I think Milsap will get more minutes at SF IF we have 4 bigs.
 
Catchall said:
All puking aside, our $14M/year 20& 9 leading scorer gets less than 30 minutes?
And if we give more minutes to Kanter, we pretty much have to take them from Jefferson.

All of this shows that we do actually have a bit of a log-jam. To be honest, Millsap needs to accept coming off the bench if the Jazz are going to get to the next level, but it remains to be seen if he'll do that.
Click to expand...

What's that? The eighth seed by more than 1/2 a game?
 
It all depends on how much Kanter and Favors have improved. I think the Jazz should trade AJ so they don't have another Boozer situation where his contract runs out and the Jazz get nothing in return. I know we got AJ when Boozer left but the Jazz had to pay to get him instead of selling/trading Boozer before his contract was up. All I am saying is that the Jazz held onto Boozer too long. THey should have traded him and got some assets instead of having to give them away in the AJ transaction.
 
Knowing when to trade/keep a player is the difference between being a great GM and an unemployed one. As much as I was upset about DW leaving, KOC did the right thing. He didn't wait to see if DW would re-sign. He sold before his leverage was low and look what he got in return.

Now I am not saying AJ has that type of value but he does have value in the marketplace (talent/expiring) but if the Jazz wait too long then AJ might walk away and the Jazz get nothing in return talent-wise or even worse he wants to re-sign with the Jazz. Re-signing with the Jazz would be a disaster because it might lead to Favors/Kanter looking elsewhere for playing time besides taking up cap space. Before it is too late, I think the Jazz need to make a decision whether to trade Millsap or AJ?
 
Kanter needs >20mpg. Favors needs ~32 mpg. I could not care less what Millsap and Jefferson get. Hopefully this offseason proves to be a profound one for Enes- seeing him in any non-transition scenario when he wasn't given the ball in the low block was always met with cringes from myself. Particularly when he holds the ball just inside the three-point line, sometimes turning it over.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top