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i still think toronto might do al-calde straight up or with some extra pieces attached that don't involve the young 4 or a pick. that trade meets a need for both teams.... toronto has lowry back so they don't need an 11M backup PG, but they do need scoring bigs. we desperately need a point...

or our big men, either. ;)

yeah, memphis doesn't want our big mean. it'd have to be a 3-way.

it's probably true that C4/picks come up in every conversation, but i'm not so sure we'll HAVE to give one up. it depends on who's doing whom the favor. for example, if we trade one of our "stars" for a young, low-salary guy and in exchange take back someone who's a little overpaid w/ 2-3 yrs...

this is all correct, except that i don't think PPP subtracts o-rebs from when calculating an INDIVIDUAL's PPP. it does with team offense because the thought is that if you miss 5 shots but get all those offensive rebounds and finally score on the 6th shot, you still got two points out of that...

anybody who thinks al takes the opposing team's best big needs to watch more closely. al guards deandre jordan while millsap guards blake griffin. al guards joel anthony while paul guards lebron. the only recent game i can think of where they switched it up a little was the spurs game where they...

i was responding to a comment about how gordon's stats move from one game to the next, so i was looking at game logs. i could have easily posted PPP and it would have told the same impressive story for the last 16 games of hayward's year. i could have used any number of stats that all told a...

if i was trying to compare al to joakim noah or someone on another team, that would make total sense. but i'm comparing him to 3 guys who have the same role in the same system. if it's the system's fault that al doesn't get back to close out on a spot-up shooter, then why don't paul, derrick and...

watch him stink it up for the next game? have you taken a look at his game log? here's every game's p/r/a going back to the start of december. 17/3/0 (12 shots) 16/5/2 (15 shots) 17/3/4 (6 shots) 9/3/3 (10 shots) 17/0/1 (10 shots) 15/1/0 (8 shots) 8/2/1 (6 shots) 7/4/5 (3 shots)...

not sure you'll get him with logic. he wants to dismiss any stat -- even one based on careful play-by-play tracking by basketball experts -- that doesn't confirm what he wants to believe.

so you're saying that the only way to know for sure if al sucks on defense is to sit down with ty corbin in a video bay and chart every possession according to the jazz's system. seems like a lot of work since anybody with eyes knows he sucks at defense, the numbers say he sucks at defense, the...

might also be worth mentioning that after last night, al is now a full 10 pp100 worse than paul on defense as the primary defender. the difference is mostly due to the fact that al is less effective guarding isos (gives up 96 compared to paul's 64), spot-up shooters (118 to 98) and the roll man...

he's not bad, he's just inconsistent... which is not an uncommon trait for a second-year player.

you say that as though there is a "rule." that's not the case. a lot of players INCREASE efficiency when their touches go up. how do we which "rule" applies to favors or kanter? the answer, of course, is that we don't know because al still uses a quarter of the jazz's possessions in every game...

the reward for taking rice off of houston's hands wasn't googs... it was god.

how is it an effective penalty? the point is, the jazz will play the 90% minimum one way or another -- either by taking on bad salary they have no use for, or by assembling the team they actually want and then if they fall just short of 90%, salaries get adjusted upward by whatever percent is...

one of my favorite self-confirming jazz fan myths of the year is that DMC is a good defender. he's actually not. there is a difference between being the energy-and-hustle guy and actually being a lockdown defender. he's definitely the former, not taking that away from him. but every time the...

i'm not saying i'm proud of it. i wish i wasn't blatantly rooting for ty to be forced to look elsewhere... but that's where we're at.

that argument has absoltuely no teeth for me... which is why we've bickered every time you've brought the discussion forward. if one guy produced offensively at a level that is at or below the team average on a per-possession basis and another 5 guys produce at a HIGHER level, why wouldn't...

umm, false. per synergy, on all plays where al is the primary defender, the jazz give up 92 points per 100 possessions. when it's paul or derrick, that number falls to 83. kanter is at 77. sap is far better defending the roll man on the PnR, isos AND spot-up shots (where al is truly awful...