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Suns are looking at AK to replace Amar'e

Looked, as in past test. The Jazz probably told them to take a hike after looking at the Suns' lack of assets.
 
Well, on second thought, it probably was actually Amare Stoudemire that they were dangling and Amare probably told both sides to take a hike.
 
The thing that irritates me the most, is that did the Jazz really not see all of this crap happening a few years back? What, do they have blinders on or something?

Did they really not see Boozer as a FA trying to get a lot of money? The dude is one of the best PFs in the game!

Did they really not think that Millsap would have raised some eyebrows?

Did they really not see Wes Matthews getting some looks?

Did they really not see the financial bind that we'd be in?

Did they really think this poisonous AK47 contract wasn't going to come to a head? Did they really think that paying a role player franchise bucks was a good thing?

Now, we have the potential to lose some key players, Boozer and Matthews, because of AK47's contract. One poor/average player is going to cause us to lose one really good player and one good player. Two starters we're losing because of our 6th/7th man.

This sucks. It irritates me to no end.
 
The nba is part guessing game game, part logic. They resigned ak after he had a great year; did they know he would be injured half the season every season? Did they know boozer would thrive in this system? Did they know he would even command any money at free agency after all his injury woes? Its all a big gamble with any transaction. Did they know the undrafted kid would make a name for himself?


I don't think its that they had blinders, just were a little irresponsible when times were desperate after stock and malone is all. Just how rudy gay and joe johnson just got big contracts the f.o.'s will regret later on
 
They didn't have to extend him that offseason. The Jazz are totally culpable for the error.
 
The Thriller said:
The thing that irritates me the most, is that did the Jazz really not see all of this crap happening a few years back? What, do they have blinders on or something?

Did they really not see Wes Matthews getting some looks?
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I mentioned 3 years ago we should look to clear enough cap space to resign Wes. That was blatantly obvious as soon as we lost to the Spurs in the WCF.
 
vslice02 said:
I mentioned 3 years ago we should look to clear enough cap space to resign Wes. That was blatantly obvious as soon as we lost to the Spurs in the WCF.
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I mentioned 30 years ago that we should started gathering assets to move up in the draft 4 years from then to get up Jordan, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone listened to me either, I feel your pain.
 
theonlyone said:
Not to mention they could have traded him for Shawn Marion and his shorter contract.
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Even worse, AK went PUBLIC, lobbying to get bought out of the remaining roughly $60 ****ING MILLION for $0(!) so he could go back to Russia and LHM wouldn't do it.

The trainwreck that is the Jazz cap situation was completely avoidable and foreseeably so. A small-market franchise that shrinks at most opportunities to make a big move cannot afford what they've done with Harpring (unnecessary 4th year, probably unnecessary annual salary), AK, and Memo. Anyone but the most contrarian of fools could clearly see that the two pieces the Jazz needed to keep and put emphasis on were Boozer and Williams and that they needed to find a defensive C, decent shooters at the perimeter, and/or a scoring wing for a 3rd reliable option. Instead, the only thing the franchise seemed to put any kind of emphasis on was cutting dead-weight/dead-end perimeter players (Harpring, Brewer) and dedicating $50 million to a backup and a C that is completely hopeless on D (unless guarding the one person slower than he is, one-on-one).
 
NUMBERICA said:
Even worse, AK went PUBLIC, lobbying to get bought out of the remaining roughly $60 ****ING MILLION for $0(!) so he could go back to Russia and LHM wouldn't do it.
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completely not true. You show me one place ever that AK said he wanted out of his contract for $0 to go back to Russia.
 
Ben10 said:
completely not true. You show me one place ever that AK said he wanted out of his contract for $0 to go back to Russia.
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He said it. Probably didn't really mean it, but still.... I don't recalls just where and when right now, but it's onna net somewheres, no doubt.

I knows, cause I had some long-*** arguments with peoples who said it would be stupid to do that. I said it would be stupid not to. AK finally earned my respect when he said that. Wish I could say the same about some of his homer fanboyz, who thought he had every right to sabatoge the team if he didn't git his way.
 
The Thriller said:
The thing that irritates me the most, is that did the Jazz really not see all of this crap happening a few years back? What, do they have blinders on or something?

Did they really not see Boozer as a FA trying to get a lot of money? The dude is one of the best PFs in the game!
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Offensively, anyway.

The Thriller said:
Did they really not think that Millsap would have raised some eyebrows?
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Well, that part was out of Utah's control, and Portland was just being a punk because they have deep pockets.
 
Hopper he did say that if the Jazz wanted to buy him out of his contract so he could go back to Russia that he would be willing to talk about it. But He never said he would do it for nothing. He said buy out. Meaning the Jazz would still have spent a bunch of money to let him go back to Russia with no compinsation. And at the time they could have still gotten something for him. Why they didn't is the part that irritates me.
 
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