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Jazz Officially Matched Hayward According to Woj

The Thriller said:
Can't wait to see this board in mid jan when Hayward is scoring in the teens, being outplayed by Burks, and is in another shooting "slump."

What will his fan club come up with this time? I remember in past years it's been Corbin's fault, his fiancé, etc. will it be Snyder's fault this year? Exum's? The Bear's fault that Hayward is an avg wing and role player?
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Wrong.. you know how this works.

It's actually, every 5th game that he plays well the "I told you we should MATCH!" crowd surfaces from their past 4 game slumber.

(I am not pissed we have Hayward.. just pissed we've now got so very little flexibility to make moves... and this team will not ever be really good.)
 
Thee jazz fan said:
Nervous obout this contract, but glad to have Hayward the next 4 years. Want to see less shooting more slashing and playmaking. And commit more to defense.


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Next we should max Burke and hope he grows 5 inches and shoots 40+% from halfcourt.
 
We should be able to make the playoffs within two years. By year three get out of the first round. By year four we should sweep our second round competition. By year 5 we will be 're-building.'

Rinse/repeat.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
Didn't Memo get extended after his injury??
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Nope. His extension covered 2010/11 and 2011/12 and was signed in the Summer of 2009. His injury happened at the end of the 2009/10 season.

b_line said:
The memo extension looked super smart until he got injured.
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Many of us thought it made more sense to wait until the end of the 2009/10 season before re-signing Memo. It wasn't a bad extension when it was signed, but it wasn't a no-brainer either (IMO).
 
I know a lot of us are unhappy with Utah matching. But I wondered (and asked myself the following question) - what numbers would Hayward have to put up for his contract to be a good signing?

Per Game:

Points:
FG %:
3-point %:
Rebounds:
Assists:
Steals:
 
kabenac said:
I know a lot of us are unhappy with Utah matching. But I wondered (and asked myself the following question) - what numbers would Hayward have to put up for his contract to be a good signing?

Per Game:

22 - Points:
50 - FG %:
39% - 3-point %:
7 - Rebounds:
5 - Assists:
1.5 - Steals:
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Stellar defense.

I'm more just pissed that this team will never be GREAT.. and we are more of less stuck with it. (I'm being a bit dramatic, I know.. but it's kind of fun.)
 
GVC said:
It wasn't a bad extension when it was signed, but it wasn't a no-brainer either (IMO).
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Ehhh, it was a bad extension. There's no reason to extend a 30-year old role player that didn't even do his role - or at least what should be his role (protecting the rim) - well. Especially since he wasn't exactly a poster-boy for good health, either.
 
PointGod_AlecBurks said:
So basically the Jazz are going to be playing three guards and 2 pf's.
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Wings are interchangeable and most teams have hybrid PF/C's. The league is athletic, not the 80's style physical game. Is Duncan a center? Is Bosh? Hibbert is and he was exposed in the playoffs; he just wasn't fast enough to guard anyone.

As for the SG/SF observation, Hayward is 6'8"; that's plenty tall enough to play SF. And it's not like he hasn't played the position. Corbin finally had Burks & Hayward playing together a lot over the final couple of weeks.
 
PKM said:
Stellar defense.

I'm more just pissed that this team will never be GREAT.. and we are more of less stuck with it. (I'm being a bit dramatic, I know.. but it's kind of fun.)
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But we have Dante now. And then when we get lucky and win the lottery next year we will have jabari parkers giant friend too.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Ehhh, it was a bad extension. There's no reason to extend a 30-year old role player that didn't even do his role - or at least what should be his role (protecting the rim) - well. Especially since he wasn't exactly a poster-boy for good health, either.
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Memos role on that team was clearly to spread the floor for boozer. And he did that very very well.
 
b_line said:
Memos role on that team was clearly to spread the floor for boozer. And he did that very very well.
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At the cost of any possibility of a good defensive team*? That's stupid. Pure and simple. And that doesn't even address the idea of a team in one of the smallest markets in pro sports already being in cap hell, then extending a 30-year with nagging injuries.

*a good defense starts and ends with a rim-protector. The Jazz should have known more than most by that time, even if they didn't yet have an answer, but they had a year to figure it out. That extension was a fear-driven business decision, the fact that the injury happened showed very clearly that good basketball decisions are also good business decisions.
 
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