Wilbon: Jazz a 55-win team next year with Steve Nash

[NAOS]

Adding Nash to the roster AS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED makes us very very dangerous. Imagine if Harris hadn't played like a sphincter for 40+ games... I think we would have been a 40-42 win team this year.

If you add Nash and get a couple of shooters (the second step isn't too hard), then, IMO, you have a championship contending squad. Call me a homer if you want. This doesn't mortgage the future for the now.

In other words, Wilbon is right. (as are Franklin, Numberica, Cy, etc.)

 

[Jeffrey32]

Sign-and-trade: Harris and a future first for Nash. Sign Nash to a 3 year-$25million deal with two years guaranteed and year three team option.

If Utah gets the GSW pick, Utah drafts Kendall Marshall and has him learn under Nash.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Sign-and-trade: Harris and a future first for Nash. Sign Nash to a 3 year-$25million deal with two years guaranteed and year three team option.

If Utah gets the GSW pick, Utah drafts Kendall Marshall and has him learn under Nash.

I'm down.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I'd like to see our big bangers and Nash on the court.

Bangers & Nash -- it's a bit of a reach, but I've got to rep that.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Saying this Jazz team is a 55-win team with Nash is basically criticism of Devin Harris as a PG, no?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Saying this Jazz team is a 55-win team with Nash is basically criticism of Devin Harris as a PG, no?

No, it's saying that getting one of the greatest PGs of all time is a big deal.

 

[NAOS]

wouldn't it be okay (i.e. not controversial) to criticize the hell out of 40+ games that Devin played this year?

 

[BENTLEY]

Harris has been playing pretty well now that he's finally figured things out.

 

[BENTLEY]

I'm not heaven-harris.

 

[BENTLEY]

I dunno the specifics of the Jazz' contracts but Nash for 3 years 20M seems pretty good. It's cheaper than Harris. And much cheaper than DerOn.

 

[Nate505]

-Get lucky and draft Lillard
-Trade Harris to the Lakers for Darium Morris/Odom TPE (does Sessions opt-in and do they keep him?)
-Sign Steve Nash
-Set oven

I'd love to see that happen. Probably won't, but one can dream.

 

[franklin]

Saying this Jazz team is a 55-win team with Nash is basically criticism of Devin Harris as a PG, no?

You could not have taken this thought experiment into a darker hole underneath the woodshed. First of all, intrinsic to the 55-win team is the growth of Favors and Hayward to a very big extent, Millsap's continual advancement, Jefferson's offensive progression, and Burks coming along. +6 at least. Second, 55 wins in a regular season is akin to just about where Indiana Pacers sit this year. It's a big leap but it's not into elite territory. Third, Steve Nash damn near made the playoffs by himself. That team has nothing. + the other 5.