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Al Jefferson to Utah? ...Mark Stein's Twitter reports

seattlejazzfan said:
And no, Boozer did not draw double teams. I don't think he's been doubled-teamed in a basketball game since Junior High.
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Well, in the 4th quarter of Game 6 against Denver they doubled him on the right block, and Boozer kicked it to CJ who swung it to Deron who swung it to Matthews for the open corner 3 which he made. Pretty sure that counts as a basketball game.

Broncster said:
Additionally Players play better when their team is doing well. .
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Or, the team plays better because a player is playing well. Alot of guys can put up numbers on bad teams.

Also, this was a great move by Kevin O'Connor to swoop in and steal Al from Dallas.
 
now all the sudden the hayward pick looks like a great one... now that aks contract is expiring, bring in a guy who can replace ak's role... i think KOC is a genius! maybe he had this AJ deal planned out all along!
 
NUMBERICA said:
Much like David Lee, being forced to play out of position doesn't make you a player of that position. Jefferson is not a C and is a terrible defender. He's everything everyone hates about Boozer but with a worse injury history and a uni-dimensional offensive game.
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We get it, you hate the deal, but you need to stop making **** up just to try and make your point sound better. During the last 3 years in Minny, Jefferson played in 85% of possible games. Boozer stint in Utah resulted in Booz playing in 70% of his possible games. So to say he has a "worse" injury history than Boozer is a flat-out lie.

Hack.
 
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If Okur can return to form then the Jazz could be very interesting playing Jefferson, Okur and Milsap together. Let Memo shoot the three and pull his man away from the hoop, Jefferson on the left block and Paul either cutting the basket and just abusing a small forward on the offensive boards. Defenisively I'm not sure how it would work out, but I would love to see a team match up with us doing that.
 
Realjazz said:
If Okur can return to form then the Jazz could be very interesting playing Jefferson, Okur and Milsap together. Let Memo shoot the three and pull his man away from the hoop, Jefferson on the left block and Paul either cutting the basket and just abusing a small forward on the offensive boards. Defenisively I'm not sure how it would work out, but I would love to see a team match up with us doing that.
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if we thought that ukraine fart fes was cloggin the lane with his height, our defense automatically gets better, doenst it?
 
breezy said:
that field goal percentage and shots per game will all change when he comes to the jazz with d-will feeding him and talents around him to complement his low post skills
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If Al can seal his post position a bit like Malone did, he's going to get a lot of inside looks and also get some more points at the line. His stats should improve.
 
jazzman12 said:
We get it, you hate the deal, but you need to stop making sh*t up just to try and make your point sound better. During the last 3 years in Minny, Jefferson played in 85% of possible games. Boozer stint in Utah resulted in Booz playing in 70% of his possible games. So to say he has a "worse" injury history than Boozer is a flat-out lie.

Hack.
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You beat me to the punch.... numberica is an idiot on this one. Give it up.
 
breezy said:
if we thought that ukraine fart fes was cloggin the lane with his height, our defense automatically gets better, doenst it?
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If this deal happens then I think it hurts Fes. Millsap and Jefferson is a much better defensive duo than Millsap and Boozer. While not great on defense he averages about a block more per game than Boozer and as has been mentioned previously is much longer. He actually averages a bit more in blocks per game than Millsap does.
 
Just thinking of an immediate way Jefferson helps us against the Lakers: Obviously, he doesn't do anything for us defensively except for being a little bit longer than Booz, but offensively, he's going to be more of a presence on the block that Booz was. L.A. always had their way in pushing Booz off the block and making him settle for fade-away jumpers. That task just got harder with Jefferson. This will make the Laker bigs work harder under the hoop and could certainly make them pick up a few more fouls along the way. You know the old addage: The more you make a player work on defense, the less effective they are on offense.........
 
If this happens we go from having Boozer who averaged .5 blocked shots per game to Jefferson averaged 1.3 last year. To put that in perspective Millsap averaged 1.2 last year. Getting an extra blocked shot per game is not going to hurt our defense. I can't say that I've scouted Jefferson to the point that I know everything about his game, but getting a guy that is easily 2 or 3 inches taller and I would assume has a larger wingspan than the guy we lost and he blocks more shots and rebounds at about the same rate, how can that not at least slightly improve your defense?
 
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