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About 95% Official: Kyle Korver is Gone

mkbelle said:
This.
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I'll also miss him not taking shots because he was protecting the record.
Korver is a one-dimensional player. Well, two, you also bring him in with 2-mins left if the other team has to foul. But even his FT shooting declined last season to a pretty pedestrian 79.6%.

Matthews/CJ
AK/CJ/Hayward
Millsap/AK

We have decent depth at the 2-3-4 due to the ability of AK and CJ to play multiple positions. In a perfect world, you'd like to have Korver back. But letting Korver and Boozer walk allows the Jazz to consider all trade proposals for AK. Jazz can take back 100% of AK's salary in players and picks and still be very near the tax threshold.

They can also use the Harp exception if someone needs to dump a player come July 1st to make a run at 2 MAX FA's.
 
True Glasseater, I suspect that's the reason he didn't get 30 minutes a game last year. Still, having a guy like that who can spread the floor and put fear into the opponent whenever he grabs the ball on the perimeter is going to be sorely missed.
 
The Ghost of Blue Edwards said:
True Glasseater, I suspect that's the reason he didn't get 30 minutes a game last year. Still, having a guy like that who can spread the floor and put fear into the opponent whenever he grabs the ball on the perimeter is going to be sorely missed.
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I agree. I like Korver. But the Millers have to be near the tax threshold. We saw that reflected in the Harp/Maynor and Brewer salary dumps.

Costs are going up with the Deron and Okur raises, re-signing Matthews and Fesenko and bringing in a #9 pick. There IS still hope the Jazz will bring him back. KOC did say they didn't draft Elijah Millsap in the 2nd round because there might not be a spot for him. Do you really want to have just 4 players at the 2-3, with one being a rookie and the other probably getting half his minutes at the 4? And, no, I'm not counting Jeffers. Nice story, but he's not an NBA-caliber player.

Furthermore, what KOC said about the fans not booing in TWO years, leads me to believe Hayward is being considered as a major rotation player this season. There is room for Korver.
 
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Kyle is a nice guy and a good shooter but he is one-dimensional. However, he will find work in the NBA. Most likely, the Jazz will let another "asset" just walk away without getting anything for him.
 
cowhide said:
Kyle is a nice guy and a good shooter but he is one-dimensional. However, he will find work in the NBA. Most likely, the Jazz will let another "asset" just walk away without getting anything for him.
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Based on this comment, I hope you weren't one of the 75% of JazzFanz that pitched a fit when the Jazz got an asset for Brewer before he bolted.
 
prob with korver is he's a shooter and that's all he is...so every guy in the nba with just 1 skill is going to be expendable...
 
Korver is a good shooter, a good team player, a good guy.... I think the Jazz have to bring him back. You can't justify giving AK a max salary and then not give a mid-level to a guy in your 8-man rotation. The Jazz can sign him and trade him later. He's an asset if nothing else.
 
If he does resign with the Jazz, that'll be one less rookie on our roster for this upcoming season. I'd rather have him than Boozer.
 
tatermoog said:
One of the underrated mysteries of this year: why did CJ Miles play more minutes than Kyle Korver, again?
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Sloan has said many times he played CJ more for defensive reasons. With Korver's knee he just wasn't as good as he used to be defensively. Frankly I didn't think he played bad defense at all his first two seasons here.
 
GlassEater said:
I'll also miss him not taking shots because he was protecting the record.
Korver is a one-dimensional player. Well, two, you also bring him in with 2-mins left if the other team has to foul. But even his FT shooting declined last season to a pretty pedestrian 79.6%.

Matthews/CJ
AK/CJ/Hayward
Millsap/AK

We have decent depth at the 2-3-4 due to the ability of AK and CJ to play multiple positions. In a perfect world, you'd like to have Korver back. But letting Korver and Boozer walk allows the Jazz to consider all trade proposals for AK. Jazz can take back 100% of AK's salary in players and picks and still be very near the tax threshold.

They can also use the Harp exception if someone needs to dump a player come July 1st to make a run at 2 MAX FA's.
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That's a great point. I was thinking about that same thing. We won't get the most value for AK's contract unless we take back quality players instead of just giving him away and costing us a draft pick to do so. Of course, the contracts we get back may not be that great either. Although, they could be good player(s) who just cost their team too much for too long. I just hope it's someone or people we can actually use.

Maybe this team needs a massive overhaul? To make it work, we'd need Deron's direct input so that he'll feel more responsible for the team and more likely to stay to see it through.
 
Korver is going to sign with a contender where he will actually play. As long as Lebron goes anywhere other than Cleveland, I'd bet huge money whatever team that is signs him. He's going to be a very useful player on the right team for several more years.
 
Korver 95% certain he is not coming back

https://www.standard.net/topics/sports/2010/06/30/korver-feeling-draft

SALT LAKE CITY -- With NBA rumors buzzing like a stadium full of vuvuzelas, a source close to Jazz unrestricted free agent Kyle Korver said the 3-point sharpshooter doesn't believe he is coming back to Utah.

"He's about 95 percent certain that he's not coming back," the source said Wednesday, hours before the start of the NBA's free agency period.

The source also said it was a "shocker" for Korver when the Jazz recently selected 6-foot-8 small forward Gordon Hayward with the No. 9 pick in the draft.

"Everything they were telling him was on the lines (that) they were going to go after a big guy down low," said the source, who asked not to be identified.

Instead, the Jazz took Hayward, a wing player whose skill set is similar to Korver's.

"The pick actually stunned all the Jazz guys," the source said.

"We took a guy we thought was better than anybody else (remaining) in the draft," Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor said. "A good shot better. But we'll see."

At the press conference introducing Hayward to the local media, O'Connor said the pick did not preclude the Jazz from bringing Korver back.

"Does it preclude us from making a trade or moving somebody? No," O'Connor said. "We're going to look to improve our team."

When reached for comment on Wednesday, O'Connor said the team had "a couple of free agents we're going to talk to at midnight. We've got some spots to fill."

Regarding which free agents, O'Connor did not want to speak specifically.

"We'll be aggressive in the free agent market as far as trying to better ourselves, to better the team," he said.

Once they sign Hayward, the Jazz will have committed nearly $60 million to eight players, not including Korver or fellow unrestricted free agent Carlos Boozer. Consequently, they aren't expected to be big spenders in this summer's shopping spree.

The Jazz recently made qualifying offers to restricted free agents Wesley Matthews and Kyrylo Fesenko, giving themselves the right to match another team's offer to either player. However, they have no such protection when it comes to Korver and Boozer.

As the chase for marquee free agents -- most notably LeBron James, followed by Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade -- became a bubbling cauldron of media rumors earlier this week, Boozer and Korver also had their names in the fray.

Internet reports on Wednesday linked Boozer with the Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and New Jersey Nets.

Others linked Korver to Miami and the New York Knicks, two contenders in the LeBron Sweepstakes who might be looking for a 3-point bomber to ease double-team pressure.

One of Utah's most popular players, Korver appeared in 180 games for the Jazz after being traded from Philadelphia in the middle of the 2007-08 season. Last season, he shot a sizzling 53.6 percent from behind the 3-point line, setting an NBA record.

He made better than $5 million in the final year of his contract, which ran out Wednesday night at 10 p.m.

"My personal opinion is, if the Jazz offered him a contract, he'll stay," the unnamed source said. "If they came to him even in light of all this, he would stay."

A day after Utah's season ended with a playoff loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, Korver said he was anxious to see what the summer had in store.

"You want to be somewhere where what you do is appreciated and where you feel that your talents are utilized," he said.

The source close to Korver said the 29-year-old would like "to place some roots down" in Utah.

"He's still got a house in Philly that he's been trying to sell," the person said. "He's been trying to get rid of that house because he wants to buy a house (in Utah). But he wasn't going to buy anything and settle down until he had a long-term contract.

"He likes Utah. He said he loves playing here. This is like night and day compared to playing in Philly. They Jazz fans are amazing and he loves it here."
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LunaticWolf said:
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I actually like Korver and what he brings to the Jazz and the community. He fits in real well here. He does what's expected of him and plays with lots of energy and excellent shooting. He stays in front of his man, for the most part. Plus, he's clutch when we need him to be. Honestly, I don't think the Jazz used him enough.

The problem is that we don't have a guy like Shaq to plug up the middle. Maybe the Jazz should make the move to sign Korver along with Shaq for MLE and see if he bites? I know he's slow, but I'm thinking we have such a great point guard that we don't need him to be super fast on every play. It would improve our nastiness, that's for sure. It'd be interesting to see how Fez would respond to playing against Shaq in practice all the time.
 
Also, since the Jazz usually bring rookies along slowly, I think it'd be smart to keep Korver around as our backup SF. Of course, it would all depend on if we do a trade or not, that includes a new SF. Regardless, getting rid of such a great shooter like Korver would be a mistake in my mind. Plus, he could help mentor Hayward in addition to what mere coaching can provide.

Korver, maybe offer to take a slight pay cut and I'm pretty sure it'd be a done deal! :)
 
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