Utah Trade Deadline Discussion

[elan_prodigy]

I read just fine. You just said being able to take on trash on bad contracts to acquire draft picks was more important to you than having a good, contributing player. That's rebuild 101.

Getting a good player worthy of their salary and probably wants to be here is not a half-measure.

Thats not what I said at all, go back further and dont just cherry pick **** you want to argue about.

Your proposing we spend the money just because we have it. Fouriner gets us no where in the long run!

If we arent in the position to obtain an All NBA talent in 18/19 (because no one beleives anyone will actually come here...) then we should take advantage of the current market. Teams are adding All star talent and 1st round picks to get off contracts to free themselves up for that free agency period.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I wonder if Cleveland gets the Hill deal done if they would use IT as an expiring contract. He doesn't seem to be figuring it out and is causing issues.

 

[Jazzman02]

Just heard according to Tony Jones and Yahoo sports, that 15 teams have reached out to the Jazz about acquiring Rodney Hood? Do the Jazz pull the trigger on any of these trades, or do we keep Hood for the remainder of the season and match whatever he is offered in free agency?

 

[RRJazz]

If every Jazz player in the trading block is held for "personal reasons" tonight, Quin may not be able to field a starting 5.

 

[The Midnight]

I wonder if Cleveland gets the Hill deal done if they would use IT as an expiring contract. He doesn't seem to be figuring it out and is causing issues.

I don't trust IT's hip AT ALL ... players that have had that same injury has not been the same since... i.e., Johny Flynn.

 

[SCS]

Just heard according to Tony Jones and Yahoo sports, that 15 teams have reached out to the Jazz about acquiring Rodney Hood? Do the Jazz pull the trigger on any of these trades, or do we keep Hood for the remainder of the season and match whatever he is offered in free agency?

Pull the trigger and take the best offer

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I don't trust IT's hip AT ALL ... players that have had that same injury has not been the same since... i.e., Johny Flynn.

I don’t want him. Just thinking if they’d use his contract to match salary in a trade.

 

[The Midnight]

It's blowing up all over Twitter that Hood is 'preparing for a trade'.


Um... who isn't?

 

[infection]

Just heard according to Tony Jones and Yahoo sports, that 15 teams have reached out to the Jazz about acquiring Rodney Hood? Do the Jazz pull the trigger on any of these trades, or do we keep Hood for the remainder of the season and match whatever he is offered in free agency?

What I'd be curious about is what people are offering. Looking around, it doesn't appear like there are good fits for obvious pieces out there, but most of what we could speculate on would return us some piece that, while nice, really isn't what we need -- now or in the future -- but would be more of a "hey, this may have some value and let's see what we can do with it" kind of thing. I'm assuming we don't value stuff like that as much as we value Hood, because, even if there are less-than-ideal things regarding him, he is, at worst-case-scenario, one of those "hey, he may have some value and we'll see what we can do with him" kind of guys, so we may as well keep the one we have and know rather than some other team's mystery box.

^^^^^ this is why I think Rodney doesn't go anywhere.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I think Udoh is better than Favors and I think, as a team, we'd perform better if Udoh had more minutes. I think we play Favors over him because of history and I think the idea that we play Bradley over him "because we used a first rounder on him" is equally flawed. Remember, you were on the arguing end of using Mack above Exum because you thought Mack was playing better, so I think playing Udoh over Bradley, unless Bradley takes that spot away from him, is quite reasonable.

First off, Udoh isnt better than Favors.

Did I ever say Udoh playing over Bradley was unreasonable? It's very reasonable and the reason they would make a trade to clear up the minutes so Bradley could start playing.

Udoh has his highest value right now with his team option for next year. If the Jazz want to flip players for assets and not really hurt their ability to win, Udoh is the prime target (if they arent trading Favors this year).

He is currently the least essential player on the Jazz's roster, if Favors stays.

 

[SCS]

Tony Jones says as many as 15 teams have called about Hood... seems short by about 14. I think his market is much wider than the few that were reported.

Me too. Like I said yesterday if the money in free agency is really as limited as everyone thinks it is, then young restricted free agents should be in high demand. Because teams should be thinking that they can acquire the bird rights of these players and then re-sign them on much cheaper deals than usual. I'm not sure that they'll be correct in that assessment. But a few teams might be willing to gamble assets on it.

 

[enchilada_style]

I don't think Hood wants to come off of the bench and I don't think the Jazz want to pay him to come off the bench. I'm sure this has been mentioned a few times already.