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Devin Harris on Al Jefferson: Jazz fans will be surprised if they see him

Once Big Al got comfortable in the Jazz offensive system towards the end of the season, he was easily our most potent scorer. Unfortunately, our team defense started so-so and went downhill.
Kanter has the potential IN THE FUTURE to be a very good player for us. Not likely this year or even next though, IMO... I say the same with Favors; he's very gifted, but hasn't AS YET shown the competitive fire in the belly to be a starter. I think IN TIME he will... Remember, Kanter and Favors are both very young; giv'em time to grow!!

Good post. I wonder why this thread I started is "NotDeadYet".... like 1,000 of sepanol's 1,238 posts were on this thread.
 
Good post. I wonder why this thread I started is "NotDeadYet".... like 1,000 of sepanol's 1,238 posts were on this thread.

Someone had to wake you up from your Big Al is the God dream and i undertook that mission.
 
Once Big Al got comfortable in the Jazz offensive system towards the end of the season, he was easily our most potent scorer. Unfortunately, our team defense started so-so and went downhill.
Kanter has the potential IN THE FUTURE to be a very good player for us. Not likely this year or even next though, IMO... I say the same with Favors; he's very gifted, but hasn't AS YET shown the competitive fire in the belly to be a starter. I think IN TIME he will... Remember, Kanter and Favors are both very young; giv'em time to grow!!
+1
Agree. IMO it would be a mistake to assume Kanter and Favors need to come out and play 2500 minutes in order to maximize their development.
 
Big Al never really got comfortable in OUR system though. After Dwill and Sloan left the system became "Give the ball to Jefferson in the post and stand around".
 
Switch "Big Al" to "Kanter" then switch "i" to "all of us". There you go. Yet we failed you. We all did...

I accept being a playoff team like we were the last 5 years as a failure, so we will fail with Big Al anyway, at least we have some chance with Kanter and Favors
 
I accept being a playoff team like we were the last 5 years as a failure, so we will fail with Big Al anyway, at least we have some chance with Kanter and Favors

I love your optimism and don't at all mind your homerism, but your broken-record posts are becoming akin to carolinajazz'.
 
I accept being a playoff team like we were the last 5 years as a failure, so we will fail with Big Al anyway, at least we have some chance with Kanter and Favors

How you continuously assume that Kanter will be much better than Big Al without even seeing him set foot in an NBA arena will never cease to surprise me.
 
How you continuously assume that Kanter will be much better than Big Al without even seeing him set foot in an NBA arena will never cease to surprise me.

i somehow can not stop posting in this thread, it became like my favorite one, but to answer your question quickly, it is not because i believe Kanter will be a superstar, it is because Big Al isn't that amazing not to be surpassed.
After he step foot in NBA, we will see who is gonna be more surprised , you or me
 
back to the original topic of this thread, here is another tweet about al jeff.

CJMiles34 C.J. Miles
Just walked in on the end of my man Big Al workout .. He looks good man
40 minutes ago


can someone verify this at tonights game? thanks in advance.
 
i somehow can not stop posting in this thread, it became like my favorite one, but to answer your question quickly, it is not because i believe Kanter will be a superstar, it is because Big Al isn't that amazing not to be surpassed.
After he step foot in NBA, we will see who is gonna be more surprised , you or me
You make it sound like Al is a scrub. He is easily a 17 and 10 player, who I could easily see being a 20 and 10 guy. There aren't many of those. You seriously need to step back, and let Kanter put in the work and prove he can be that good. Not saying he won't, but you make it sound like 17 and 10 guys are dime a dozen.
 
It's no use. Just tell Ms Kanter she's right.

Kanter will burn down the HOF, then erect the HOK using the bodies of his opponents as building material. Jefferson will spend the rest of his life in a seclusive monastery praying for forgiveness from the fans for being such an awful player, after cutting off his feet and hands in shame.
 
You make it sound like Al is a scrub. He is easily a 17 and 10 player, who I could easily see being a 20 and 10 guy. There aren't many of those. You seriously need to step back, and let Kanter put in the work and prove he can be that good. Not saying he won't, but you make it sound like 17 and 10 guys are dime a dozen.

I don't say he is a scrub, i just say he isn't worth 14-15 million per year at all.
If Kanter will get paid more than he deserves or will suck in defense, i will criticize him too
That's as simple as i say, look who gets paid more or close to Big Al, you will see they are all better than him by margin (except Lewis of course)

I hope guys like Brown notes will comprehend what i say instead of kissing Big Al's *** and won't provoke me to write more posts here.
 
I don't say he is a scrub, i just say he isn't worth 14-15 million per year at all.
If Kanter will get paid more than he deserves or will suck in defense, i will criticize him too
That's as simple as i say, look who gets paid more or close to Big Al, you will see they are all better than him by margin (except Lewis of course)

I hope guys like Brown notes will comprehend what i say instead of kissing Big Al's *** and won't provoke me to write more posts here.

Rashard Lewis Washington $22,152,000
Gilbert Arenas Orlando $19,269,308
Elton Brand Philadelphia $17,059,726
Chris Bosh Miami $16,022,500
Antawn Jamison Cleveland $15,076,715
Brandon Roy Portland $14,940,153
Baron Davis Cleveland $13,950,000
Carlos Boozer Chicago $13,500,000
Richard Hamilton Detroit $12,650,000

https://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm

Also Duncan, Garnett, and Kobe are all over 20 mil and done or nearly so. No team in the NBA would trade for those 3 players at that salary anyways. Of course Sepanol would trade Al for any of these players based on the statement above (oh, except for Shard). You know, since he is so bad.
 
I don't say he is a scrub, i just say he isn't worth 14-15 million per year at all.
If Kanter will get paid more than he deserves or will suck in defense, i will criticize him too
That's as simple as i say, look who gets paid more or instead of kissing Big Al's *** and won't provoke me to write more posts here.

20 and 10 big men don't grow on trees you your self aid it wouldn't take much for Kanter to be better then Jefferson
 
20 and 10 big men don't grow on trees you your self aid it wouldn't take much for Kanter to be better then Jefferson

Boozer was a 20 10 guy too, and probably thats why he is getting paid so much, but would you like to have him back in our team (lets say if we didnt get Big Al)
Stats doesn't mean anything by itself, there are many aspects of the game other than stats
 
Rashard Lewis Washington $22,152,000
Gilbert Arenas Orlando $19,269,308
Elton Brand Philadelphia $17,059,726
Chris Bosh Miami $16,022,500
Antawn Jamison Cleveland $15,076,715
Brandon Roy Portland $14,940,153
Baron Davis Cleveland $13,950,000
Carlos Boozer Chicago $13,500,000
Richard Hamilton Detroit $12,650,000

https://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm

Also Duncan, Garnett, and Kobe are all over 20 mil and done or nearly so. No team in the NBA would trade for those 3 players at that salary anyways. Of course Sepanol would trade Al for any of these players based on the statement above (oh, except for Shard). You know, since he is so bad.

https://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm


Among the top 30 high paid players in this sites, these are the only ones you can find where you can compare to Big Al. And still here only Boozer and Lewis are worse than Big Al when you consider the salary/contribution ratio.

He is the 24th highest paid player in nba, he may be the 24th best big man in the league but not the 24th best player overall.
 
Nice backtrack. So far in this thread you have been all over the place. Contradicting yourself, talking out of both sides of your mouth, etc. For example, you said 3 posts ago that EVERYBODY in the NBA making comparable money is "better by margin". It was all too easy to put up a simple list of players and their 2011 salaries to show how stupid that statement was. Of course now here you go trying to say that guys like Hamilton and Arenas are more valuable to their teams than Al is to the Jazz. FFS, you are worse than the people that can't spell moron.

In your mind obviously your opinion is fact. When others clearly show that is not the case you can't handle it. Hence the 100 posts in this thread.
 
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