The Jazz are trading D-Will to New Jersey!?

[LifeOnaPlate]

I sort of hope that there is a lockout next season. I think I need a break from the NBA.

If that happens, and given how this season may tank like a motherbear, I might be hanging up my NBA interest for a while, if not forever, depending. I only fallow the Jazz, and the rest of the NBA through the lens of a Jazz fan. Could mark the death knell. Or I'm just being very overdramatic. Only one thing would make me feel any better: if Dwill said "I was planning to leave Utah anyway." But, despite the opinion of many, I actually think Williams would have re-signed here for the right money, and given a few extra players. Trading him feels like quitting, just like Sloan's exit felt like him quitting. That's a lot of quit to take in a few weeks' time.

 

[fairweather]

one last thing, I really think D-Will HATES change. OK, that's a strong word, but I really don't think he likes it one bit. And I think he liked Utah overall.

I agree (about change). How many star players jump teams and win championships? It doesn't happen often. Championships are won by teams built up over years...

 

[cowhide]

I'm sorry but the Jazz need to 1) trade Jefferson's fatass and then 2) Go hard after JVG this off-season.

A frontcourt of Millsap, Favors, Fes, and Elson have good defensive potential and per that tweet above, we need an identity. JG will bring us one that focuses on defense.

Well that lineup will certainly be an offensive power house. With DW going the Jazz may not score over 80 pts a game so they better improve dramatically defensively. JVG is so overrated as a coach. He has won nada.

 

[Headtrip]

**** this draft. We're going to get two lottery picks in what will be the closest thing to the 2000 draft.

With that logic, why even bother with the 2nd round of the draft? After all, it yields nothing compared to the first.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

Since December, being a Jazz fan has felt like watching a loved one slowly lose their mind.

I understand why this was done, and that it MAY turn out good, but right now it just sucks.

ha, I like the brutal honesty and imagery.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Giving a true superstar first NBA elite young PG for players/picks in the range of Gordan Hayward (plus Devin Harris) is as much as rape as any trade in NBA history, perhaps with the exception of Gasol. And it's not like our hand was even forced, like Denver's was. We just took up our behinds because we wanted it that way.

The Grizzlies got Marc Gasol. I don't see us getting a player that good. But here's to hoping that young Chris Wilcox actually turns out to be Dwight Stoudemire.

 

[Borat]

Tyler Honeycutt! I feel better already!

Yep, that's what a life of a Jazzfan is about to become. Reviewing the draft prospects is the most exciting thing to do in the middle of the season.

 

[NUMBERICA]

With that logic, why even bother with the 2nd round of the draft? After all, it yields nothing compared to the first.

You don't find FRANCHISE players (which we just lost) in the 2nd round. Deron wasn't perfect, and when he wasn't winning, he wasn't fun, but that's how most winners are. We just lost the one thing that gave this team some semblance of an identity. Who are the Utah Jazz now? What is the goal over the next 3 years? WHY IS AL JEFFERSON STILL ON THE TEAM?

I need drugs.

 

[cowhide]

So was D-Will? We don't know that. Harris is a good point guard and I love Deron Williams more than anyone here, but this was smart smart smart. The Jazz can't afford to go through years of losing like the cavs will.

So are you saying that it was a good deal because DWill was leaving and you think Harris is going to stay? If that is the case then your blind support of the organization is hilarious.

 

[fairweather]

If that happens, and given how this season may tank like a motherbear, I might be hanging up my NBA interest for a while, if not forever, depending. I only fallow the Jazz, and the rest of the NBA through the lens of a Jazz fan. Could mark the death knell. Or I'm just being very overdramatic. Only one thing would make me feel any better: if Dwill said "I was planning to leave Utah anyway." But, despite the opinion of many, I actually think Williams would have re-signed here for the right money, and given a few extra players. Trading him feels like quitting, just like Sloan's exit felt like him quitting. That's a lot of quit to take in a few weeks' time.

I'm there with you, man. I've been a Jazz fan since the early 80s. What sets this franchise apart is that despite the small market, it has managed to stay competitive and maintain a sense of cohesion and family. I am convinced, now more than ever, that the death of LHM has cost this team beyond measure.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Well that lineup will certainly be an offensive power house. With DW going the Jazz may not score over 80 pts a game so they better improve dramatically defensively. JVG is so overrated as a coach. He has won nada.

Besides being the last to coach a relevant Knicks team and being one of the most impressive advocates and teachers of defense the league has ever seen, you're right. He hasn't done anything. We're much better off with whatever it is Corbin is doing and all of his experience (no offense, Ty).

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Well that lineup will certainly be an offensive power house. With DW going the Jazz may not score over 80 pts a game so they better improve dramatically defensively. JVG is so overrated as a coach. He has won nada.

Which is as much as Sloan who had 23 years.