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How Would This Team Be Different

Well for one, there would be no Favors, Kanter or Burks on the roster...no Big Al...due to cap restrictions Millsap probably would have been traded because for Utah to affort all those players they'd barely be able to affor anyone else...the overhanging story would be what big market city Deron would bolt to in the offseason...Memo would probably be on the inactive list with his back...

Now, if (and these are some HUGE ifs) you somehow make all the salaries work and IF they were all healthy, from purely a basketball standpoint the Jazz would be a notch below OKC but right there in a battle for the 2nd-seed in the West - although it would be more due to the dropoff in the overall talent in the West than their own doing.
 
I was thinking about this the other day. IMO we would be better off NOW had we kept that roster in tact, especially the DWill, Boozer, Korver and AK part of the roster. There is no question that DWill + Boozer was/is a lethal lineup. Had we been able to keep at least those two and let them mature together we could have had another Malone/Stockton legacy. Maybe not a championship, but at least a damn good team that would always be in the fight for a championship.

Do I like our future? Yes. Do I think what we have now and what the future holds is ultimately going to be better than DWill/Booz? I'm not completely sold on that idea given that DWill/Booz are who they are, that being legitimate all stars and given the fact that they did a lot with this team and carried us pretty far each year. However, I hope that DFave/Kanter/Hayward/Burks/Sap can take the team further than the combo of DWill/Booz/Sloan, but the jury is still out on that. (Master of the obvious)
 
homeytennis said:
if DWill, Boozer, Korver, Ronnie, Memo and AK were still on the roster?
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DWill FG% has dipped like crazy, Boozer gets benched in the 4th in favor of Gibson, Korver still can't defend, Ronnie still can't shoot, Memo has back issues, USSR AK is better than USA AK.
 
Instead of fighting for a playoff spot, We would be losing in the second round of the playoffs to the Lakers.....................again.
 
We'd repeatedly lose our manhood to the Lakers.

With Kanter and Favors, we take the manhood of the Lakers.
 
Boozers a scrub. Nice job getting 10 rebounds a game not defending. Thumbs down. Front courts much better than it was back then. Obviously it's tough to replace a player like Deron, but i think over time the Jazz are gonna be a much better team than they ever would be with the roster they had a few years ago.
 
There were some good times with that team, but I think we saw how good they could be and it wasn't enough. Their big salaries, bad attitudes, injury prone bodies (Deron's limp wrist included) and constant submission to the Lakers was not the way to a championship.
 
Gameface said:
There were some good times with that team, but I think we saw how good they could be and it wasn't enough. Their big salaries, bad attitudes, injury prone bodies (Deron's limp wrist included) and constant submission to the Lakers was not the way to a championship.
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Don't forget about Korver's wrist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdbTNdU5MU
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I have to say that I miss that team. Those were some good times. But Like everyone else I knew it was time to blow it up. It was flawed. No defense.
 
kennykyle said:
We would be an over the cap, mediocre team struggling to make it to the 5-6 seed, with little hope for the future.
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I think your definition of mediocre is different than mine. To me, mediocre is what we have currently - a team that isn't all that awful, but not good enough to make much noise.

My guess is that the Jazz, like most seasons with that lineup, would be battling for the 3-6 seeds and probably little more. I think, unlike past years, they could have locked down the 4th spot, though, because the west doesn't seem nearly as stacked at the top as it did between '07-'10 (to be sure, SA and OKC are legitimate contenders, but beyond them, it kind of fizzles fast). So, with a few breaks, a decent enough road record (Utah has the worst road record of any team battling for a legitimate spot in the Western Conference playoffs this year), the 4th seed could be theirs, though I don't think they would have been able to catch the Lakers. That would give them most likely a first-round series against the Clippers, with home court, and a probable series win (since, you know, in this reality, DWill owns Paul). Of course, that means they're most likely out in the second round against the Thunder, but I think with that team, it would be a fun series that could very well go the distance.

Either way, we'd be a lock for the playoffs, but the uncertainty of the future would be so pressing that we would probably feel the window toward doing anything in the playoffs was close to slamming shut.
 
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