RealGM: Jazz Prioritizing Extension For George Hill Over Derrick Favors

[BabyPeterzz]

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiret...Extension-For-George-Hill-Over-Derrick-Favors

The Utah Jazz still possess more than $13 million in cap space, which could allow the team to agree upon an in-season contract extension with George Hill or Derrick Favors.

Hill has emerged as Utah's priority when it comes to an extension as he will become a free agent this offseason.

The Jazz can increase Hill's salary for the current season while also bringing his starting salary for a new deal next year up to more than $22.5 million.

Utah traded a lottery pick in June to acquire Hill.

If true, I don't blame them. Favors injury history makes him a big questions mark. 3 more years of GHill is a pretty safe bet IMO. He been solid on every team he's played for and he's made an obvious impression on the Jazz.

This may be posturing, which it probably is, but I would be just fine with extending Hill and letting Favs hit UFA.

 

[fishonjazz]

Cant blame the jazz at all. I would do the same.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It's also the way the contract would work... extending favs would bump up his next years salary and almost surely cost us Hill.

Also I think favors is dead guys... players who are alive are worth much more than dead players #facts

 

[Game6Conley]

Boo... So they're gonna let Millsap and Favors walk without getting jack **** in return? Sounds wasteful to me.

How could you not conclude they've squandered the return from the Deron trade?

 

[Game6Conley]

Errors in the draft compound themselves into issues like these. Truthfully it should've never reached this point.

 

[Maneesh]

Care to elaborate?

 

[Game6Conley]

Care to elaborate?

They sold the 35th pick in the 2014 draft when Jordan Clarkson was still on the board. In 2013 they knew Schroder would've fallen in their laps but reached for Burke anyways. In 2015 they took Olivier Hanlan 4picks before Norman Powell who's a SG but still could've easily provided nice backcourt depth, he's tough, long, explosive and plays defense.


Without errors like those, trading a lottery pick for George Hill would have much less appeal..


So now we're gonna downgrade the PF position to further try and resolve the issue that should've been solved long ago at PG.. with a fat contract for a 31 year old no less...

Doesn't sound like snowballing assets to me.. Seems like the opposite.. Like panicked moves from a FO trying to save face..

 

[The Midnight]

They sold the 35th pick in the 2014 draft, when Jordan Clarkson was still on the board. In 2013 they knew Schroder would've fallen in their laps but reached for Burke anyways. In 2015 they took Olivier Hanlan 4picks before Norman Powell who's a SG but still could've easily provided nice backcourt depth, he's tough, long, explosive and plays defense.


Without errors like those, trading a lottery pick for George Hill would have much less appeal..


So now we're gonna downgrade the PF position to further try and resolve the issue that should've been solved long ago at PG.. with a fat contract for a 31 year old no less...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing though....

 

[Game6Conley]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing though....

and how else is the FO to be judged? in foresight?

there's been undrafted free agent guards that have slipped thru the cracks into decent NBA contracts in that timeframe too.

 

[The Midnight]

and how else is the FO to be judged? in foresight?

Well you also have to look at what they got right as well.. Gobert.. Hood.. Lyles..

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Well you also have to look at what they got right as well.. Gobert.. Hood.. Lyles..

Actually Lyles could be considered a mistake since Booker was picked directly after him.

 

[Stoked]

Hahaha, another one of these debates? Hahahaha


I agree on prioritizing Hill over Favors.

 

[The Midnight]

Actually Lyles could be considered a mistake since Booker was picked directly after him.

We already have Hood and Burks... we needed frontcourt depth.

 

[Game6Conley]

Well you also have to look at what they got right as well.. Gobert.. Hood.. Lyles..

The Jazz have a lower margin for error than many other teams with championship aspirations and should be graded as such..

If they didnt get some **** right they'd be out of jobs, the big question is 'how can things be done better?'..

They'll need to gain tremendous momentum to really break thru..

So until that happens any asset thats been developed here for years and walks without a return is a major blow to the cause. Anyone who says otherwise is an advocate for the status quo.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Hill is a UFA next season. Favors is not.

Hill is a priority not because Favors is dealing with Injuries but because Hills contract is over after this season. Favors we can deal with later, he is under contract this season and next. We can easily clear salary for players if we need to. We can trade Joe Johnson next season. We can trade Burks next season. Ingles, Withey and Macks contracts all come off next season. Next season we will know if Favors injuries have cleared up or are an issue still and we will know if Burks is alive.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Boo... So they're gonna let Millsap and Favors walk without getting jack **** in return? Sounds wasteful to me.

How could you not conclude they've squandered the return from the Deron trade?

You know that Favors has another season under contract right? We are not letting him walk for nothing because we are not renegotiating him this season. This gives us more options and wiggle room.

 

[My2Cents]

and how else is the FO to be judged? in foresight?

Decisions have to be made in the moment, without benefit of hindsight. Teams are going to get some of them wrong. Especially with second round guys like Clarkson and Powell. Now I guess we're assuming Hill is a priority based on a Marc Stein blurb?

 

[Game6Conley]

You know that Favors has another season under contract right? We are not letting him walk for nothing because we are not renegotiating him this season. This gives us more options and wiggle room.

Hood and Exum need to be extended that same summer, they'll already be at the cap after this summer.. somethings gotta give, and trading him for an expiring and a draft pick could work but it's still not a good return on a player that just turned 27 and is arguably a top-10 pf..

 

[Ron Mexico]

Hood and Exum need to be extended that same summer, they'll already be at the cap after this summer.. somethings gotta give, and trading him for an expiring and a draft pick could work but it's still not a good return on a player that just turned 27 and is arguably a top-10 pf..

We can make room just fine if Favors is healthy and playing.

This team has also gone over the cap if we are competitive which we can do to resign our own guys.

 

[r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t]

and how else is the FO to be judged? in foresight?

Yes. What did you want them to do? Jump into a time machine, evaluate the players, then return and use hindsight to make the decision?

Regarding the moves you mentioned, the Burke pick was sketchy because it wasn't clear he could physically do it in the NBA. The other two? Who cares? Both players mostly suck anyway.