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Ryan Gomes Anyone?

homeytennis

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After reading Monson's column today it appears the Jazz let Boozer walk, let Korver walk. Ryan Gomes was traded from the TWovles to Portland and waived. I know he's an undersized big but so is SAP. Perhaps it would give us another option so that we don't totally suck.
 
I love Ryan Gomes but the Jazz are already flooded with role-player 3s and 4s. Or wings in general. If the Jazz could've done something significant this offseason when they had a solid asset in the #9 pick (Hayward isn't within a mile of equal or greater value) to possibly turn two nickels into a dime (so to speak). Gomes playing big minutes as a 3 and 4 behind or adjacent to solid talent would be awesome. But the Jazz don't have that and I'm sure there are many teams interested in his services (or should be).
 
You made it sound like the article said that KOC said they were letting Boozer and Korver walk.
 
Monson's article didn't make it sound like they were opening up the wallet for anyone except Matthews. That includes other's free agents.
 
Let's get this thing straighten up. Gomes sucks and I don't want him on the Jazz. He's one of those players that plays lights out when he plays the Jazz though kinda like Linas Kleiza.
 
So, should we really and truly start preparing ourselves for a team sans Boozer and Kover... without any moderately talented addition? I would have to think that they will bring back Fes if this is the case. I'm afraid we are really going to suck... a front court of Fes, Millsap, Koufos, and Memo IS NOT going to get the job done. In fact, I'll go ahead and predict that if this is the case we'll be 4th place in the NW division.
 
I'd guess that Monson doesn't know jack squat about the Jazz's plans. Dude is a hack.
 
there were a lot of flaws in monson's article. mostly, the ill-conceived notion that if the jazz let boozer walk this summer and AK walk next summer, the jazz will have cap space. they won't. or at least, they won't have enough to sign anybody of consequence.

deron, sap and memo alone constitute 35M of salary commitments for the summer of 2011. add somewhere around 4M for wesley's second-year salary of his new contract. add money for hayward and next year's lotto pick (we're not making the playoffs if we are playing the cap space game and only signing guys who are ok with 1-year deals), so that's another 5M. now say we opt out of koufos' and miles' deals. we go into the 2011 offseason with a late lotto pick, enough cap space to sign a tier-2 guy, and a roster of deron, memo, millsap, matthews, hayward, and we fill in with minimum salary guys because we don't have any salary cap exceptions.

no way that team makes the playoffs, and no way deron sticks around through a rebuilding effort. so then in the summer of 2012 we lose deron, probably lose memo. our team is now led by millsap and the tier 2 guy we picked up in 2011, along with hayward, a couple of late lotto picks, and matthews. that team doesn't win 35 games.
 
Let's get this thing straighten up. Gomes sucks and I don't want him on the Jazz. He's one of those players that plays lights out when he plays the Jazz though kinda like Linas Kleiza.

If any scrub plays Lights out against the Jazz that means the Jazz have got to have them. Ronnie Price, Korver, Harpring, and the biggest of them all, BOOZER, just to name a few of them.

The Jazz system makes a lot of guys Better. If AK Plays a lot at the 4 this year because he's the #2 guy at the 4, I predict, he's going to be an ALL-Star again or in contention for the 6th man of the year. It probably won't hurt that it's a contract year for him too, but I think AK plays pretty hard as long as he feels wanted by Jerry and the rest of the team and he gets 'X' amount of touches per game.
 
Korver played pretty poorly in the games he played against the Jazz as far as I remember.

And you only sign a player like Gomes to fill a hole. You don't sign him because you have to have him. Gomes doesn't fill a hole for the Jazz.
 
You're right about Gomes, I wasn't specifically talking about him. I was just saying that the Jazz seem to like to get people who play well against them. If we could get Linus Kleiza, I bet the Jazz would jump on him in a second. He almost always lit up the Jazz when he was on Denver.
 
Linas Kleiza and Gomes are good players. How them performing well against the Jazz makes them less to some of you, I haven't the slightest ****ing idea.
 
My thought is that the guy is a 11 point career scorer and he could help. If Boozer and Korver walk we aren't exactly awash in talent.
 
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