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Utah Jazz: Team among 4 showing interest in Clippers swingman Maggette
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1. D Will
2. C Maggette
3. R Brewer
4. C Boozer / A K
5. Memo
I think a well balanced starting 5, with some youth & experience on the bench , Millsap, Kosta, Korver, Harpring, CJ & a Point guard- the rest in training or trade.
Maggette would help on problem 2 but do little for problem 1. However, if Maggette goes to SA that really does not help the Jazz.
If he settles for the MLE he ends up in Miami or Orlando.
The first priority is TRADE AK to anyone who will take him. He needs to be traded for an expiring contract or to a team with cap space who sends us back a much lesser contract. Trade AK for Wally Szczerbiak and his expiring contract. Or we could get really creative and do the following sign-and-trade deal:
Clippers get Al Harrington
Golden State gets Kirilenko
Utah gets Maggette (after signing long term deal)
That would be a good deal for all 3 teams.
Jenny can't imagine Magette would choose to live in Utah over a place like Boston or Miami. Whether the stigma about Utah is true or not, there's definitely a perception in some circles in the NBA that you don't want to live in Utah.
The only way the Jazz land Magette is by offering him substantially more money than any of those other teams.
Face it Jazz fans: The only players you're ever going to get at true market value are Eastern Europeans.
Price has turned into a great pickup but at that time he was an unknown commodity.
I would dare go out on a limb and say that the dynamics of this team are not going to change this summer. Jazz Brass have never been aggressive when it comes to getting people who could push the team to the next level. Don't believe me then tell me who they signed while Stockton and Malone were here to help push them to the next level and don't say Hornacek because he was a mid-season acquisition.
I'd like to see the Jazz work out a sign-and-trade deal so we can unload a little cap room and relieve the logjam at the 2 and 3 spots.
Jazz have one person who can take over a game right now and that is Dwill. Boozer, AK, Memo, all depend on Dwill to create for them. They are not capable of taking over a game on there own skills or merits. Jazz have got to get some relief for Dwill. Dwill was worn out by the end of the season and specially in the playoffs. Maggette would be great. He is capable of taking over especially if you are a guard scoring 20+ points a night. Common Jazz Brass you will run Dwill down and out of here unless you can get him some relief.
I think the Jazz need to let Magget go, because it's never going to happen, and be aggeressive after Diop. Offering him the full mid-level exception is a little much, but for the Jazz I think it would be worth it.
Simply put: the Jazz need Corey Maggette. He is one of the most athletic players in the league and he is capable of defending premier shooting guards/small forwards. Jazz only have one player (Williams) who you can give the ball to in crunch time and say "make a play." With Maggette you would have two. He is a proven all star quality scorer who can get to the hole/free throw line whenever he wants. Can't lay off of him like the Lakers did to Brewer. It's a no brainer. Jazz should do everything they can to land him.
Williams/Maggette/Boozer is as good as any big three in the West. Add in Utah's bench depth and you have a team that is every bit as good as the Lakers.
And as far as him not wanting to come here, we've already signed him to a deal before and he has gone on record saying he would love to play here and would love to play for Sloan.
Signing Maggette is the kind of move that turns really good teams into NBA finalists. Just ask the Lakers.
Rumor has it that Maggette is already off the market, heading to San Antonio.
Hope this isn't another matter of the Jazz losing a player that could have put us over the top because KOC didn't pick up the phone fast enough.
My favorite Magette story was told by Doc Rivers...while a player with the Orlando Magic, Cory missed a game...because he had a bad pedicure...lol.
With Brewer, KK, AK and CJ, the Jazz have the 3 and 2 covered until the Mo Almond develops. Anyone who has seen him play will see he is the future, with his shooting, his strong body with defense, and his team play.
Having said that, I doubt that the Jazz can land Maggette unless they can trade AK.
get a decent mentor to teach brewer and almond how to play at the slashing 2 spot and they could be twice as good.
enough with the tall teenage centers. we need a tough center that will knock a fool out if he thinks he can have his way in the paint. you knock kobe around a few times and he wont come back. think lambeer-ish center. our whole team needs to take defensive lessons from the old pistons. "make your fouls count" should be the jazz marketing slogan next year.
really our team is good, just poorly managed. they play everyone the same and to their opponents level. they are timid and need to get roughed up so they start playing like men. current roster is ok except hart. and Collins needs to know his role; foul out every game. i love how gaurds box him out. losing to LA needs to mean something or we go nowhere. take losing personally and get better.
1-Maggette would come off the bench at the 3 not 2. The Jazz are looking at Maggette to replace Harpring not AK or Brewer or Korver.
2-Trade AK?! Are you stupid? Did you watch a single playoff game this year? Does anyone remember AK nearly single handedly turning the 20 point blow out against the Lakers into a stomach-able loss with 3 after 3 in the fourth quarter when Korver and Memo were afraid to shoot. AK is overpaid but HE not Maggette is the difference maker for championship team. AK is our Pippen not Maggette.
3-Why did the Jazz re-sign Hart? Hart picked up his option. The Jazz didn't resign him. Read a paper. He knows hes out in Utah so he picked up his option and now gets bought out AND gets a new contract elsewhere. Even if it is Turkey.
4-Trade Boozer! Why? Cuz he has a house in a different city... just like everyone else in the league. Shouldn't we fire Sloan then? He's never lived in Utah and hes been here 20 years! Trade him cuz he MAY opt out next year? So? Then we have big money to sign possibly the best free agent class in the past ten years.
Everyone is just bored so they want the Jazz to do something... anything. Even if it makes absolutely no sense. Bottom line is the Jazz don't have to make any moves to beat LA. No matter how good anyone was it was going to be LA and Boston. Everyone knows David Stern has been fixing games for years now and this year he got caught with his hands in his pants.
+1 to keeping D-Will, Booze, A.K., and Memo. Everybody else is expendable. Trade all you can to get Maggette in a sign and trade if he's willing to come here.
Face it Jazz fans: The only players you're ever going to get at true market value are Eastern Europeans.
Why? Because they are probably the only ones that Larry could afford & be impressed by his tears.
Also, I have read a ton of posts saying get rid of Boozer because Millsap is ready. Do any of you watch the games?? Milsap can't play more than 20 minutes a game without fouling out. I like him, but not as a starter, he commits more totally useless fouls than any player in the league. So, combine his skills and production to his constant foul trouble and you have a nice 7th 8th man, but not more.
that shooting guard void on both ends of the court.
But, we are dreaming we will not be able to get
Maggette unless we get rid of Andrei, or Boozer, or
Okur. Face it the Salary cap is....the limit ..and
we cannot pay all of these guys...so dream on...Ak is
great if Jerry did one thing right this year that
was trying to patch up things with Andrei.. I have
never liked Sloan as a coach but I have to admit
he did try with Andrei this year...
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