TPE - Traded player exceptions

Farsider322 · Post #1 » by **Farsider322** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:46 am

The Jazz are sitting on three TPE's. Is the FO going to be able to use them, or will the end up expiring? As fast as the Jazz have been moving this off season, I have to wonder. If not will the Jazz FO be able to sign any of the FA's this year? Seems like the FO doesn't want to ante up for a player, or just not enough ante. Are there any gems out there in the summer league? If you take D-will off of the team right now, could we win a D-league game? To compete any more in th NBA, you have to have 3 legit stars, and we have one. One left that is. Is this a rebuilding year?

I am not opposed to having a couple of D-leaguers at the league minimum to fill out the bench, and play when we are up by 20. This allows the Jazz to sign some higher quality talent. What I mean is I would rather have one 10-12 million tier player than two 5-6 million tier players. Last year I think we had CJ, Matt, Korver, and Brew all in the 5-8 tier range. Hopefully this is what the Jazz are trying to do. Move three of them and sign a 13-15 tier guy to start, and a minimum level guy to get him water.
I just think we need to increase our talent to have 3 main go to guys, and 2 higher level role players with a main rotation of 8 or 9.

I think AK will be better this year if the Jazz will play him in the 4 position a little. He needs to be down low on defense, so he can come from the week side and block shots. Which ignites his offensive game.
I think CJ will be a lot better this year. He had his first full year of real minutes last year.

The Jazz do need to acquire another top level talent this year.

CarrKeefe · Post #2 » by **CarrKeefe** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:50 am

The only problem with getting a couple of d-leaguers to fill out the bench is we already have two on our team. The jazz will look to use their TPE's but they mostly always become expired.

I'm convinced the Jazz are going to save up their money, take a down year, and add through the draft next summer, and spend their money on a player to compliment Deron in hopes that in the 2011-2012 season, Deron's last year under contract, they can have a successful year and convince Deron to stay. But I just think with our lack of moves, and the talent that's going to leave, we could be in for a down year and I'm not sure Deron is patient enough for that.

UTJazzFan_Echo1 · Post #3 » by **UTJazzFan_Echo1** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:39 pm

The only real option for the TPE is to use it in a trade with a team that is trying to clear cap space. So you got to look at the teams who are trying to do that and then what pieces they are willing to give up.

It really is too bad we couldn't have had all of these before the start of last season, we could have robbed all these teams who had been trying to dump players for a chance at the big FA's.

statsman · Post #4 » by **statsman** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:07 pm

What was the amount of the TPE received for the S&T of Boozer?