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The Jazz sign & trade boozer to Orlando for Gortat & Bass.
Re-sign Mathews & Fes!
Sign & keep gaines!
Let 2008 European #2, Evans & Jeffers, Fight it out for 1 position. The jazz keep 14 players BECAUSE OF OKUR'S INJURY!

Yes, we are over in the 75 Mill range. Jazz said they would do it for another year.

Williams Price Gaines
Mathews Miles European #2/Jeffers
Kirlinko Miles Haywood Evans
Milsap Bass Koufus Evans Okur at C/PW when back from injury
Gortat Fes Koufos

How do the Jazz end up with Haywood?

My sarcasm meter is broken today, but I assume he's referring to Gordon Hayward, not Brendan Haywood or the adult-film star, Haywood Jablowme.

With the number of threads discussing how the Jazz should sign Brendan Haywood I just assumed that's who he meant; it wasn't until I read it again that I realized he probably meant Hayward.

Montanajazz wrote:The Jazz sign & trade boozer to Orlando for Gortat & Bass.
Re-sign Mathews & Fes!
Sign & keep gaines!
Let 2008 European #2, Evans & Jeffers, Fight it out for 1 position. The jazz keep 14 players BECAUSE OF OKUR'S INJURY!

Yes, we are over in the 75 Mill range. Jazz said they would do it for another year.

Williams Price Gaines
Mathews Miles European #2/Jeffers
Kirlinko Miles Haywood Evans
Milsap Bass Koufus Evans Okur at C/PW when back from injury
Gortat Fes Koufos

That lineup, especialy for 75 million plus dollars, sucks.

It would be a borderline playoff team. Gortat and Bass are ok but I prefer AK-47 get the minutes at PF over Bass. This is the type of trade the Jazz would do which is conservative and boring having little consequence on making a championship run.

HolyToledo wrote:It would be a borderline playoff team. Gortat and Bass are ok but I prefer AK-47 get the minutes at PF over Bass. This is the type of trade the Jazz would do which is conservative and boring having little consequence on making a championship run.

Still better than re-signing Boozer to a multi-year deal and putting up with another string of defense-less seasons at the 4/5.

I don't see that this S&T would drop the Jazz's success much. Millsap is on the up and up, and now that Fes has gotten some time, he's inching toward legitimacy, too. The 1 to 3 spots are in OK shape. Not a championship team, but with Boozer gone and Okur injured, it's a team that defends and runs.

HolyToledo wrote:It would be a borderline playoff team. Gortat and Bass are ok but I prefer AK-47 get the minutes at PF over Bass. This is the type of trade the Jazz would do which is conservative and boring having little consequence on making a championship run.

I agree that this trade wouldn't make a championship contender (losing Boozer would weaken us too much offensively). That being said, how the hell would trading for a player who could potentially give us the interior defensive presence we so desperately need and taking on roughly 10 million dollars in salary in the process (rather than simply letting Boozer walk and saving all that money) be conservative?

We'd definitely be taking a risk, considering that we'd be relying on a career backup to be our defensive saviour and that we'd be going well over the cap to do so. For the record, I think it would be a risk well worth taking (especially if we kept Boozer and could trade Millsap for Gortat instead), but that's fine if you don't think it would be. It is, however, slightly annoying that you haphazardly throw in your refrain about how the Jazz are too conservative (which, I agree, they generally are) in to every thread, even when it rather glaringly does not apply.