Can you believe the trade the Jazz just pulled off?

So I was watching one of the sports channels the other night when I caught the end of one of those running tapes at the bottom of the TV screen. It read "traded for Kirk Snyder, Curtis Borchardt and Raul Lopez."

Hmm, who did the Jazz trade those three players for, I wondered? It must be a shooting guard and a decent one at that, considering the Jazz were giving up three former first-round draft choices.

I anxiously looked it up on the Internet but I couldn't believe my eyes. The Jazz had acquired Greg Ostertag.

Greg Ostertag?

Was this a joke, like one of those fake stories you see every April 1?

Are you kidding me?

No, it was accurate. The big lug Jazz fans couldn't wait to get rid of for nine long years was indeed coming back to the Jazz.

So much for Utah's youth movement.

OK, it's true the Jazz always had a winning record when big "O" was on the team, even the year after Stockton and Malone left. But still, Greg Ostertag?

Does Jerry Sloan know about this?

Perhaps this move will improve the Jazz's defense and maybe the Jazz have another move up their sleeve that will bring them the much-needed shooting guard (hey, maybe they'll bring back Alexsander Pavlovic, their first-round draft choice in 2003).

But it's hard to imagine that Ostertag will suddenly be better now at the age of 32 than he was at ages 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 when he played for the Jazz.

How would Jazz fans feel about the following lineup?

Tony Parker, Michael Redd, Tayshaun Prince, Josh Howard and Josh Smith.

A little on the small side, perhaps, but it's a young lineup with a lot of upside with potential all-stars in Parker and Redd, a solid defensive player in Prince and a pair of young talented forwards in Howard and Smith.

Knowing full well that it's very easy to second-guess after the fact, but the preceding five-player lineup is a one the Jazz could have drafted since 2000, despite not having a draft pick better than No. 14 until this year.

Redd was drafted by Milwaukee No. 43 in 2000 (Jazz got DeShawn Stevenson at No. 23).

Parker was drafted No. 28 by San Antonio in 2001 (Jazz got Raul Lopez at No. 23).