Actually, the statement was that Paul was a much better defender than Boozer, and that "addition by subtraction" would make the team so much better. Sounds kinda familiar don'it?
Well, how'd that turn out? Sub 500 team by February, a pissed off coach, and star played that had to be traded.
Boozer's defense was a reason we were not a championship team 07-10, but it was not the reason, and simply dumping him in favor of Paul would not have made (and didn't) make us a better team.
Unless you are Lamar Odom with a 2.1 PER or a complete headcase like Stephon Marbury, addition by subtraction does not exist.
Your argument is logical, but flawed, yes Boozer has a lot of the same defensive flaws that Al has, but Boozers offensive game meshed perfectly with D-Will's game, which made for a highly efficient offense that led to lots of layups and high % shots.
So now we switch Boozer with the undersized Millsap and bring in Al, and what do we have? We have a guy like Millsap who is skilled, but undersized and wears down, and is better suited to play off the bench, but Ty refuses to play him off the bench. Because of this both his offense and defense suffers. His defense has been god awful since he became a starter.
As for Al it's simple good low post scorer, but is as inefficient an offensive player as there is in the league. From time to time, when he's hitting his shot consistently, this is a very good team, but when he's not it's like the bad news bears before they start winning. He stops ball movement, the jazz are more iso, and one on one and other players strengths are not used properly because all we do is throw the ball into Al and watch him go 1 on 2 most the time. The best example of this is the Memphis game. In the first half Al was on fire, and couldn't be stoped. He played with in the context of the offense allowing others to play well. The result was having a big halftime lead, but in the second half Al reverted back to the old Al, and end up scoring a grand total of 10 points. And end up losing by double digits.
Let me be a medium between both arguments. Why not trade Al now,send Millsap to the bench, let Favers and Kanter start, and with Al gone bring Hayward back into the starting lineup, so we can let Foye be the long range shooter off the bench that we need.
Right now we are an offense that throws the ball into Al and watching him do his thing. With Al gone, the ball will move more, helping the jazz to better utilize the skills of others instead of relying on Al to to go 2 on 1. Millsap is better because he's playing against second unit guys. Foye is not as bad a defensive liability coming off the bench, and him, Marvin Hayward, and Carroll get wide open shots due to better ball movement. With Al gone Haward is able to move back to the starting lineup and get his touches with Al gone. This allows him a chance to progress faster as well as Favors and Kanter. So as I said in an earlier post.... Addition by subtraction.
Wow that was longer then I thought it would be.
Lol so no ones gonna reference my questions after the first page =(
there ya go.
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