This franchise doesn't want to win a title

[cyclo]

So why support it?

This season:

Raja Bell
8.6 ppg. 2.5 rpg. 1.5 apg. 0.8 spg. 42.9% fg.

Wes Matthews
16.1 ppg. 3.1 rpg. 1.6 apg. 1.2 spg. 43.9% fg.

For the Jazz, it always comes down to this. When that extra money needs to be spent to make the Jazz a championship team, the owner flat refuses.

The Lakers won two championships, because their owner Jerry Buss was willing to pay the luxury tax. The Jazz owner? Not so.

Have fun getting KO'd again in the 1st or 2nd round. It's becoming a Jazz tradition.

 

[vj_74]

For the Jazz, it always comes down to this. When that extra money needs to be spent to make the Jazz a championship team, the owner flat refuses.

The Lakers won two championships, because their owner Jerry Buss was willing to pay the luxury tax. The Jazz owner? Not so.

We have been paying LT last year and maybe this year too unless a trade happens. That is not the problem. For a small market team we have a high enough payroll.

The problem is the front office's stubborness to pretend to not realize that they are spending this money on the wrong guys. Or overpaying some of them, like AK and Memo.

When you are a small market team and you decide to pay a 5th option, a role player 16-8 mil/yr for 3 or 4 years then your chances of winning anything is doomed.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Oh come on. Get ****ing real.

 

[NUMBERICA]

P.S. I attempted to neg rep you and called you a jackass in the note, but I positive repped you. I guess I was the jackass there, but my sentiments still apply.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

hindsight is always 20/20 huh?

If they were more worried about making money they would have never positioned to acquire Al Jefferson and in turn carry the 6th highest payroll in the NBA right?

 

[Marty McFly]

P.S. I attempted to neg rep you and called you a jackass in the note, but I positive repped you. I guess I was the jackass there, but my sentiments still apply.

I gave him a -4 to help balance it out.

 

[vj_74]

Is there really a strong enough financial incentive for a small market team to win a championship? I have always wondered about that. Can someone help answer that question.
How much more does a owner of a team that wins a championship make over a team's owner that say, loses in the second round?
What Iam trying to drive at is that maybe from strictly a business point of view it maybe doesnt make sense for Greggy boy to take any more risks financially to win it all. Maybe it just isnt worth it for him. Maybe the prize money isnt that big here. You have a loyal fan base who will keep filling the seats as long as you are a playoffs team.
Just how much more money can you make by winning a couple more rounds in the playoffs?

Maybe this needs a separate thread.

 

[David Stern]

Is there really a strong enough financial incentive for a small market team to win a championship? I have always wondered about that. Can someone help answer that question.
How much more does a owner of a team that wins a championship make over a team's owner that say, loses in the second round?
What Iam trying to drive at is that maybe from strictly a business point of view it maybe doesnt make sense for Greggy boy to take any more risks financially to win it all. Maybe it just isnt worth it for him. Maybe the prize money isnt that big here. You have a loyal fan base who will keep filling the seats as long as you are a playoffs team.
Just how much more money can you make by winning a couple more rounds in the playoffs?

Maybe this needs a separate thread.

See: the San Antonio Spurs.

 

[ankle breaker]

you just realized this?

why do you think they switched jerseys? so they could make money.

 

[Eminem]

So why support it?

This season:

Raja Bell
8.6 ppg. 2.5 rpg. 1.5 apg. 0.8 spg. 42.9% fg.

Wes Matthews
16.1 ppg. 3.1 rpg. 1.6 apg. 1.2 spg. 43.9% fg.

For the Jazz, it always comes down to this. When that extra money needs to be spent to make the Jazz a championship team, the owner flat refuses.

The Lakers won two championships, because their owner Jerry Buss was willing to pay the luxury tax. The Jazz owner? Not so.

Have fun getting KO'd again in the 1st or 2nd round. It's becoming a Jazz tradition.

I seriously doubt having westley matthews over raja bell means we would win a championship.

 

[Eminem]

Was matthews goignt o grow till he's 7 feet tall to be our center?

 

[vj_74]

See: the San Antonio Spurs.

Dont quite get what you are trying to say.Are you saying that the Spurs, despite being a small market team(although it has been shown on this board that they are a bigger market than advertised) have the incentive to win while we dont? I am not talking about winning a title for winning sake or for pride sake. Iam asking what does Greg Miller stand to benefit $wise by going a couple more rounds deeper in the playoffs. Yeah ideally you cannot put a price tag on a championship. But then maybe for some businessmen it is the $$ that matters. And if so, does winning it all guarantee prize money?

Because the Jazz have already been going over LT the last 2 years and yet losing in the firts two rounds. why should they pay even higher LT unless winning it all guarantees big prize money?

I have always thought that the Jazz ownership have been smart and frugal spending-wise. But that was during LHM days. In the last 2 years they have been spending more to get the same, if not worse, results than they got in 2006-2007. That is not smart spending.