Harris is not even close to as good as Deron. Nor will he last as long since his entire game is predicated on his quickness and not his playmaking or shooting. Or strength.
The risk you run when you trade your franchise player and your coach feels he has to go is that you lose your identity and your steam. After Deron was traded, that was the last link to anything good that this team used to do. Now you start over. Harris and Jefferson should not be a part of that plan, IMO, because they're the two highest-paid players, not that good in the first place, a plainly poor match together (lane-crashing, poor-shooting PG + soft tweener low-post player with blinders on and poor coordination = when matching skill-sets and burning >$20 million annually), and even if they figure it out, they'll be a lot older than the players the Jazz will be acquiring over the years and even less than useful.
Considering that the Jazz are already rebuilding, Harris and Jefferson - who haven't really been known for their ability to help a team win (Nets stayed about the same or got worse, Mavericks got a little worse and then got a lot better/Timberwolves are as bad as they've always been and the Jazz became a lot worse) - aren't saving us from anything. And considering that in certain situations they might be nice players or might fetch some value on the market, it makes no sense to me to move forward with them. I'm hoping something happens on draft day where one of them is moved. Fortunately, the worst-case is they run out their contract and the Jazz lose them for nothing after figuring out that they aren't for us. Actually, I guess the worst case is the Jazz keep losing and still fall in love with the guys and extend them.
And yeah, WHAT IF the Jazz turn into one of those teams? You can bet they'll be sold and moved at some point if they don't turn it around. I've already resigned myself to the possibility that the Jazz become the Seattle Supersonics (the most ideal move if it has to happen) or something along those lines. But that doesn't mean I hope it comes down to that. If anything, the most foolish move was giving a guy with basically no experience as a coach (2nd assistant in charge of developing players and never having head-coached or even being a 1st assistant doesn't exactly instill optimism from me, besides being a good but mostly forgettable player) the keys without exploring other options. Bad move. I don't love Rick Adelman, JVG isn't perfect, but hell, at least they've done it before and can hopefully guide the team through some rocky times a little better.
Anyway, I'm rambling.
The risk you run when you trade your franchise player and your coach feels he has to go is that you lose your identity and your steam. After Deron was traded, that was the last link to anything good that this team used to do. Now you start over. Harris and Jefferson should not be a part of that plan, IMO, because they're the two highest-paid players, not that good in the first place, a plainly poor match together (lane-crashing, poor-shooting PG + soft tweener low-post player with blinders on and poor coordination = when matching skill-sets and burning >$20 million annually), and even if they figure it out, they'll be a lot older than the players the Jazz will be acquiring over the years and even less than useful.
Considering that the Jazz are already rebuilding, Harris and Jefferson - who haven't really been known for their ability to help a team win (Nets stayed about the same or got worse, Mavericks got a little worse and then got a lot better/Timberwolves are as bad as they've always been and the Jazz became a lot worse) - aren't saving us from anything. And considering that in certain situations they might be nice players or might fetch some value on the market, it makes no sense to me to move forward with them. I'm hoping something happens on draft day where one of them is moved. Fortunately, the worst-case is they run out their contract and the Jazz lose them for nothing after figuring out that they aren't for us. Actually, I guess the worst case is the Jazz keep losing and still fall in love with the guys and extend them.
And yeah, WHAT IF the Jazz turn into one of those teams? You can bet they'll be sold and moved at some point if they don't turn it around. I've already resigned myself to the possibility that the Jazz become the Seattle Supersonics (the most ideal move if it has to happen) or something along those lines. But that doesn't mean I hope it comes down to that. If anything, the most foolish move was giving a guy with basically no experience as a coach (2nd assistant in charge of developing players and never having head-coached or even being a 1st assistant doesn't exactly instill optimism from me, besides being a good but mostly forgettable player) the keys without exploring other options. Bad move. I don't love Rick Adelman, JVG isn't perfect, but hell, at least they've done it before and can hopefully guide the team through some rocky times a little better.
Anyway, I'm rambling.