Not even at salary floor yet. Why is DL not more active?
Also apparently is working on renegotiating Gobert's contract, and maybe others.Yup. He's sat on his butt this off season.
Talking to Deng and Dudley
Traded for Hill
100+ player workouts
Traded Burke
Reports of calling every agent of a free agent that possibly matched
Signed JJ
Traded 2nd round picks
Also apparently is working on renegotiating Gobert's contract, and maybe others.
no we couldn't have "afforded" a 4 year 80 million dollar contract to Ryan Anerson. Anerson would not have improved the current team at all, unless you were planning on making him third string. Stop fantasizing about this guy. . .
LylesBackup big, stretch the floor when Favors plays the 5.
Yup. He's sat on his butt this off season.
Talking to Deng and Dudley
Traded for Hill
100+ player workouts
Traded Burke
Reports of calling every agent of a free agent that possibly matched
Signed JJ
Traded 2nd round picks
Jazz are still "baking the cake" to an extent. We want to get to the playoffs on the backs of our main core, not a guy like Ryan Anderson. He is probably better than Lyles at the moment, but Lyles could be better than him by the end of the year (will almost certainly be healthier). So if we got him, that would get Lyles less growth and hurt the future of our team.
I don't disagree. But project the salaries in 2018. Tell me who you keep and who you cut. And dont claim Anderson is easily tradeable. We've seen how that's worked with Kanter and OKC. Anderson might make the Jazz better for 2 yrs. After that, players have to be traded or not re-signed to afford the last 2 yrs of his contract without paying a big tax bill.Backup big, stretch the floor when Favors plays the 5.
He can play the three or the four. Shooting of Favors
Anderson
JJ
Hayward
Hill
Would be hard to defend.
I don't disagree. But project the salaries in 2018. Tell me who you keep and who you cut. And dont claim Anderson is easily tradeable. We've seen how that's worked with Kanter and OKC. Anderson might make the Jazz better for 2 yrs. After that, players have to be traded or not re-signed to afford the last 2 yrs of his contract without paying a big tax bill.
I've been one of DL's harshest critics. I'm still not on board with trading a lottery pick for a likely 1 yr rental of Hill. But I love the acquisition of Johnson (2 yrs, didn't cost assets). And I'm very pleased he hasn't handed out any of these absurd 4 yr deals.
Um, no.$100,000,000 if Hayward gets $30,000,000. $120,000,000 if Anderson got signed. Still below the projected LT.
Um, no.
Gordon at $30, Favors and Gobert at $25 each? Exum and Hood at $20m each? In this market, those are EASILY what each player will get. That's $120m for just 5 players. Even if you bring it down $10m, you still have 8 more players to sign, including Lyles.