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Should we give Jeremy Evans a huge deal this summer?

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Hedda Gambler

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Hopefully the Jazz FO manage to work out a deal that gives us a very good player or two this off season. When we are done with our shopping, should we give Jeremy Evans a huge deal - for example 5 million this year with 5 million unguaranteed next year? Th point is obviously to use him as a trade chip. Since we have his bird rights, we can go over the cap/more over the cap to re-sign him. We can than use our future assets and him to match salaries in a trade later on in the season.

This would cost the Jazz a lot of money, but he seems to be a very good dude and it would give us flexibility.
 
Evans played 7 MPG either in garbage time or at the end of the season when our core all had mysterious ailments.

You don't pay guys like that $5 million a season - you give them the vet minimum of about $1 million based on the number of years he's played. He'll gladly take it too.
 
Guys, you do realize that the point here is not to pay the man what he is worth, but to find a way to circumwent the salary cap? With Evans on a Booker-like deal, we could take back 15 million in salary in a trade. If we pool the GSW and OKC picks with our own future picks, we should be able to get a pretty good player in return.
 
Hedda Gambler said:
Guys, you do realize that the point here is not to pay the man what he is worth, but to find a way to circumwent the salary cap? With Evans on a Booker-like deal, we could take back 15 million in salary in a trade. If we pool the GSW and OKC picks with our own future picks, we should be able to get a pretty good player in return.
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So overpay someone now in the hopes of dealing with some desperate team in a trade later? Interesting
 
He is a very situational player. You can't play him against any PF with a post game he gets overpowered. He is "ok" against stretch PFs but sometimes loses his man from lack of concentration. Generally is productive when he plays though. 5/y is ridiculous, but could go 2.5/y
 
Ok folks, try not to get stuck on the fact that this is overpaying for this certain player. What Hedda is talking about is giving the team more flexibility in making a trade. This only makes sense if we use up our cap space, in which case, Jeremy could be used as filler in a trade. Paying him the minimum would defeat the purpose. It's definitely a legitimate idea.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
Ok folks, try not to get stuck on the fact that this is overpaying for this certain player. What Hedda is talking about is giving the team more flexibility in making a trade. This only makes sense if we use up our cap space, in which case, Jeremy could be used as filler in a trade. Paying him the minimum would defeat the purpose. It's definitely a legitimate idea.
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A legitimately bad idea.
 
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