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Since we now have enough evidence to evaluate the off season moves, what was the best and worst ones.

Best: Retaining Boozer as he has helped team win and matching Millsap's contract gives the Jazz options now and next off season while winning games. Picking up Matthews and Drafting Maynor with the subsequent trade away of maynor/harpring were smart moves by KOC.

Worst: What was the Jazz and KOC thinking when they re-upped Memo for 2 more years past this season? They could have seen how he played during the season then made a decision at the end of the year when he was a free agent. I guess they thought he might get a big deal in off season and were saving money. In light of the fact that the Jazz are over the cap, this move made, and still makes, little sence to me. Definitely the worse move of the off season. Drafting the michigan state stiff in the second round was idiotic which i said when he was picked. I knew he no chance to make the NBA. I thought the Jazz would have picked Blair and traded up for him if need be. Matthews makes up for this mistake and the Jazz werent the only team to make a mistake by not taking Blair.

HolyToledo wrote:Since we now have enough evidence to evaluate the off season moves, what was the best and worst ones.

Best: Retaining Boozer as he has helped team win and matching Millsap's contract gives the Jazz options now and next off season while winning games. Picking up Matthews and Drafting Maynor with the subsequent trade away of maynor/harpring were smart moves by KOC.

HolyToledo (on boozer) wrote:

I simply dont see why he is still on the Jazz!!!! It is one thing if Jazz thought they could win title with him for this season or he draws fans but neither is true. His contract is also expensive. He has no trade value when rumors are like Adonis Haslem and picks for him. It is like KOC is trying to save face by hoping a great deal comes along or Jazz luckily become a title contender which would justify this ridicolous contract they gave him a few years ago. Just think if you are Millsap and you wanted to re-sign with the Jazz, you played your hardest on a low 3 year guaranteed contract, and finally you get paid only to come off the bench to a guy that doesnt play defense and doesnt want to be there. How stupid is that!!!!

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Extending Memo's contract put it to expire with the end of the bargaining agreement. If you didn't extend (when they did) you would have to settle for less of a center because that is all that would sign for 2 years. And going past the future agreement is very risky as you don't know the rules yet.

It was a smart business move, some risk, but still manageable risk.