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Rumor: Jazz prepared to match 'any offer' for Hayward.

BabyPeterzz said:
The thing is $12m - $13m is not franchise crippling money. This is not an AK, Joe Johnson, Gilbert Arenas contract. The Jazz have one of the best, if not the best, cap situations in the league so it won't keep them from giving the real max to the right player. Really look at what Hayward brings to the table and realize with more experience he will get more consistent. He's a 16/5/5 guy who will shoot better with better teammates and a better system. The Jazz have invested a lot into his development. You match whatever and move on.
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Agreed.

The salary cap is making a big jump this year and it will continue to go up by a lot with the new national TV deals coming. I believe 13 million will become the average for the 3rd best player on a team, which is exactly what I think Hayward is.

I think we match anything short of a max deal.
 
Hey guys... If he were going to be happy with $12M per for four years he would have signed last year.

He wants more and is posturing for it. I believe he will get it.

Lots of Burks love here, and rightfully so. He is coming into his own and will keep getting better. However, he has one skill at which he is elite (getting to the basket and either finishing or getting fouled). Hayward is more of a well rounded, complete player and his new contract will reflect that.

I think we will be shocked at the offers he will get, and the Jazz will match. As has been said before, he is the best use of the Jazz cap space given where they are as a team right now.
 
In my opinion the Jazz should keep Hayward at anything but the max. Favors and Hayward are both probably well suited to be third options/third best on a championship team, and hopefully Exum will be the guy that is the superstar. Now we jsut have the problem of finding another guy who is an all star close to superstar level.

I know people think Kanter and Burks are going to be that type of player, but I just don't see it. In my mind, the future rankings of players currently on the jazz are something like this:

1. Exum
2. Favors
3. Hayward
4. Burks
5. Burke
6. Kanter
7. Hood
8. Gobert
9. Evans
 
For what it's worth, I think Hayward with thrive in a more up-tempo, spread the floor offense that I think Snyder will install. This will give him more uncontested shots and allow him space to go to the basket more, which he does well getting fouled at a high rate (though he needs to improve his finish rate). Corbin's offense (if we can call it that) required Hayward to take a large number of contested, off the dribble shots, many with time running down on the clock, which are not his strengths. I wish we had one more year to see how he performed under a better system and a better coach before having to commit to him long-term.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I really like Hayward and think he still has room to grow, and that we haven't seen his best yet. But I am tired of being an also-ran, and locking him in at 10 mill+ long term will put a serious dent in our ability to climb out of the also-ran pits of hell.


I hope we see some strong moves this off-season.
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According to Locke, this isn't the case. Getting Hayward at approx 11 million per year will not hamstring us LT, particularly if, as everyone expects, the salary cap to increase with the new TV deal. It also has to do with the timing of the other contracts, which are spaced such that it should not create a financial logjam. Locke is pretty adamant that Jazz have plenty of flexibility to sign Hayward without a Kirilenko-type blow to the salary cap and payroll/personnel flexibility.
 
With the players the Jazz have (Kanter, Gobert, Favors, Hayward, Burke, Hood...) I'd love to see a PnR system with Exum as the primary ball handler. You have Hood, Burke and Hayward hitting Js of the pick while the bigs take the pass off the pick down low and get baskets at the rim.

Then you can mix it up with Burks and have a slashing attack with kick outs to Hayward and Hood.
 
Don't know if this has been addressed, or how it would work with the current CBA, but, can a team offer him the max and majorly backload it? If so, it may be harder for us to match.
 
Locke was on with DJ and PK this morning. He said he thinks Hayward could get $14-15 Million a year, so $60 M deal. Vomit.


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Vermin said:
If there are really multiple teams lining up to offer him max you have to match anything he gets. Doesn't matter what we think he is worth. If multiple teams think he is a playmaker at the SF position, a rarity I might add, then he has value and we can sort it out by feb of we are not comfortable long term.
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Why? So you are advocating that the Jazz should make decisions based upon what other franchise do?
 
jimmy eat jazz said:
According to Locke, this isn't the case. Getting Hayward at approx 11 million per year will not hamstring us LT, particularly if, as everyone expects, the salary cap to increase with the new TV deal. It also has to do with the timing of the other contracts, which are spaced such that it should not create a financial logjam. Locke is pretty adamant that Jazz have plenty of flexibility to sign Hayward without a Kirilenko-type blow to the salary cap and payroll/personnel flexibility.
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Yea that is nice in theory but when you start overpaying for guys it eventually catches up with you. It also sets a precedent with other players. You raise the bar too high and you start losing players because they want more than they are worth. There is no way that Hayward is worth more than 11 million a year. Even that is overpaying.
 
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