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Utah Jazz: Price hopes to remain in Utah

FAs is really bad. If Utah does not make an offer he will have to go to Europe.

I like Price as a person and he plays with energy and sometimes really helps.

However, I do not think he should be the back up PG. The Jazz will lose too many games if they do not take this opportunity to get a decent back up. It will take Maynor a year to learn the system and get ready to run the Jazz. If Maynor has to he can probably run it by Jan. but it would not be optimal.

The NBA is about winning and for 75-80 Million every position counts and every position has to produce as many wins as possible.

For the last 2 years the back up PGs have lost at least 5 games a year. They did not do it intentionally. The Jazz just have to have a quality PG on the floor at all times.

PG is the most important position in the Jazz system.

Sorry Ronnie.

Sloan find another project that you can work on. One that does not lose games. How about Suton? He is as good as Hansbrough.

Don't see any benefit in keeping someone who hardly played this year. Seems like a waste of money. If we want to keep 3 point guards, play AK at the point and don't let him drive or shoot.

Can the Jazz find a PG in this FA market who can run the team better than Ronnie Price? Since the market is so bad it is likely KOC can find a better player for under a million. I hope they are not planning on paying Price more than that.

Will the Jazz resign Price in spite of being able to get a better player who will win more games?

Probably.

1. Sloan wants to try to continue to turn Price into a PG.
2. Price is a fan favorite.

You can make a case for 2. However, the NBA is about winning games. If Price loses 3-5 games (very possible as back up PG) that could make the difference between a 2 or 3 seed and a 7 or 8 seed.

These are the type of things Sloan does that lose.

I prefer to win. Sloan is running out of time to win a championship.

If the Jazz out of kindness want to pick up Price and set him on the bench and pay the luxury tax I do not care. I do care about winning games and a better PG is needed on the floor.

I'd like to see Ronnie back. The main reason he didn't play was because Sloan felt Knight was better at running the team.

However, Jerry admitted at the end of the season that he'd made a mistake by not playing Price in more games.

The kid needs playing time. How can he learn to run the team without it?

Is he going to blow some early plays and games?

Ya ... more than likely. But unless the Jazz can come up with a better alternative via trade, then they may have no choice but to keep Price and play him.

Note to Sloan: Put a little faith in Ronnie and tell him long before the season starts that he's the backup to Williams. So get ready ...

It's amazing what people can accomplish once they KNOW the responsibility is on their shoulders.

One of the biggest problems with this team is that Sloan's established pecking order and set in concrete rotations.

The Jazz play poorly on the road because they know they are going to get their minutes no matter what. They play well in front of the fans but mail it in on the road.

Had Sloan been more flexible last year he would have played Price when he was the better match up (when Knight could not hit anything). That hurt the team and lost games. Price could have been a better choice for some games. We will never know.

Sloan should play the best match up and that is especially important at PG.

Losing games is not entirely Knight or Price's fault it is Sloan's and his knot headed rotation philosophy.

This team could be much more but it won't and part of that is Sloan's coaching style.

The last thing we need is for Sloan to insist on Price and then tell him his is playing back up PG no matter what.

Sloan need to play Maynor if he can run the team better. The vet bias has to go.

another edit job. Now Ron Artest is with the Lakers, Just great. He will play tough D and they still have Bynum. ARIZA headed for Houston, the "sheed" to Boston or Spurs.'

Dear friends: Please review the ESPN new Market Evaluation poll conducted by Oregon Marketing firm for 2009.

The reasons the Jazz never change approach is official. Yet many inconsistencies make no sense to this survey. It seems like most people here vent go to occasional games and watch tv. Not season seat holders. This is what Greg cares about.

The Jazz dropped from #15 last year, 34 spots to #49 out of 122 pro sports teams. Angels ranked 1st, Clippers Last. Overall, Jazz respectable #10 in NBA.

Following categories: Bang for Buck #23, Sloan #29 5th in NBA (WHY?), Greg #34 (8th owners) They get toasted other areas.

Fan Relations #60 openness/consideration by players, coaches, management to fans #56 affordability; #69 Stadium Experience.


Crucial here: Title Track #92 No titles, or none ever expected

Players#96 effort and likability off it.

Translation: Sloan and the "holics" and Greg "free pass"

No wonder Greg never does anything.

You can see where it starts.

I think when Ronnie gets warmed up he is a very good player like we saw in the last Lakers game, however if he's only going to play 10-11 min a game it's hard to get into a rhythm. I also really like the fact he came out of UVSC and is an all around good guy. I think Ronnie has a lot of potential still if we can hang on to him and play him more this year.

Why it should take Maynor long to be ready? Oh Jerry's syste,...Price does deserve the chance to be #2 though and maybe he can team with Maynor who could be shooting guard if playing with Price.

That might be fun to watch...

Bring him back! now!

Didn't Millsap get a lot of minutes as a rookie? Williams did also.

can you post the link for that poll on the Jazz?

I think the Lakers just drank a poison pill. Nothing against Artest but it is as if he has Bad Karma everywhere he goes, whether it is his fault or not, the team blows up.

Look at what happened in HOU.

RonRon is the exact wrong personality and style to put into the triangle offense. He will be shooting bad percentage shots when he should be passing to Gausol. He will destroy the Lakers even if they figure out how to coach him.

Turkoglu going to POR is not necessarily bad either. He will cost them a lot and he really is not needed or that much of an upgrade. He has playoff experience. It it worth that much?

I looked at Jefferson's Win Score. He is not very efficient nor improving over time. He puts up a lot of shots to get his points. He will not save SA if Duncan goes down.

Other teams are making moves, however those moves are not as formidable as they seem right now.

Price's only real minutes last year came at the start of the 4th quarter in Game 5 against the Lakers, when he singlehandedly brought the Jazz back from a 24 point deficit. Remember, Sloan played JASON HART and Brevin Knight in front of Price. I guess Sloan loves crappy veteran players. (Collins, anyone?)

and Price is a very small issue. I have no problem with him being 3rd PG. I do have a problem with losing games if he is the 2nd PG.

The Jazz need a better PF (not Boozer or Millsap). They need a better C who has an inside game and can bang a little and shoot the 3. They could get by with Okur if the PF played defense.

The Jazz need a 2/3 who can shoot and defend.

They need a better overall defense. In the process of moving Boozer the Jazz could address both a younger better PF and an SG/SF who can shoot and defend. They also could simply replace Korver. Brewer is cheaper for a year but will not remain so. Both of them have holes in their game.

All of this is doable this year and next and the Jazz could still be under the luxury tax but a very viable contender.

Should of went after a big guy in the draft. Price should of been #2 last season! The kids got talent!! And tons of energy.

Price is ok. He's not a true pg, and entering his 3rd year with the team i would think he should have caught on by now. I would much rather sloan use maynor as the backup pg and get him some playing time to develop, since he is a true pg. I think people give his last 5 minutes of the laker game too much credit. He hadnt played at all during the playoffs, and he had nothing to lose because our team couldnt come back and win. Thats why he played so well. Plus it was a scrubs game by then. I'm just not as impressed as most were about that I guess. We dont know how practices went, im sure sloan didnt have him play for a reason. As bad as knight was, he was doing what sloan asked him to do: pass the ball. Ronnie shoots too much, that is not what a sloan point guard should think of first. thats why he was 3rd string, and thats why i think we let him go or pay minimal to keep him as a pg #3

keep price hes good

Ronnie played amazing in game 5 and i knew that was going to happen. Knight didn't do jack when he was in during the entire season. Price was obviously better than Knight, he just didn't get the chance to show it because Sloan never played him. I don't think we should let Price go he's a lot better than people think. I'm just tired of Sloan. I'm a high school kid and i know that Price is better than Knight.

Cavs landed Shaq,Lakers get Artest,Celics obtain Rasheed? I guess Kevin O'Conner is a Laker fan trying to punish us. Get a Jazz fan to be the new GM.
Charles Barkley for GM. Scottie Pippen can coach. Sloan wont last another 2 years with this pain.

Most of the time Knight ran the team better as he knew how to run a team. However, I can shoot better than he can and I can barely walk.

There were times when Price could have run the team better. On nights when an up tempo game was needed and when the opposing team packed the paint and backed off of Knight to double, Price may have been better.

Sloan runs rigid rotations. He has a pecking order. I just flat out disagree with that approach. He does not take advantage of the other teams weaknesses. He just trots out his system and tries to make it work even when it is impossible to work with the players he is playing.

Neither, Knight nor Price are good enough at PG both of them will lose enough games to justify a better back up. It is about winning, not if some fans love Price.

We do not know how soon Maynor will be able to run the team. To me it makes sense to start with a good back up who can. Let Maynor have a year to get ready. If there is an injury he can sub.

The Jazz do not have super stars (they have a couple of wantabes) to lead them to a title. The best hope is to get the best collection of players they can.

There is no room for practice players. Koufos is integral to the future of the Jazz. Price is not. After this year at best he is the 3rd PG. His development is not very important to the future of the team.

If the Jazz have to have a project they need to go and get and develop a big combo guard who can shoot and defend. He can be the 3rd PG and actually get effective playing time at SG.

Price is not a particularly good SG and is not a PG.

Go get the players that are needed at every position to win. Stop the nonsense. Unless the player is the best the Jazz can get or unless they are important to the future of the team. THEY SHOULD NOT BE ON THE FLOOR. Remember Collins?

Sloan has his pets and plays them. This is a professional (?) sports organization, not a welfare program for NBA players.

Please save the Jazz from Sloanisms.