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What if we matched on Wesley Matthews?

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homeytennis

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Does anyone wonder how different things might have been if the Jazz had matched Portland's offer sheet to Wesley Matthews? Portland has won 11 straight, he is averaging 17 points per game and is shooting 50% from the field and 55% from 3. Instead we used the money to sign Roger Braiile, Earl and some big stiff. To put his scoring average in perspective, he would be the Jazz leading scorer. Ah but it would ruin the tank.
 
Build a bridge and get over it. We wouldn't have got to see Hayward go 5 for 15 if Wes was here...
 
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homeytennis said:
Does anyone wonder how different things might have been if the Jazz had matched Portland's offer sheet to Wesley Matthews? Portland has won 11 straight, he is averaging 17 points per game and is shooting 50% from the field and 55% from 3. Instead we used the money to sign Roger Braiile, Earl and some big stiff. To put his scoring average in perspective, he would be the Jazz leading scorer. Ah but it would ruin the tank.
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I was completely behing letting mathews walk and happy about the Raja signing. Doh!
 
silesian said:
I was completely behing letting mathews walk and happy about the Raja signing. Doh!
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I think a lot of us drank that Kool Aid but if you go back to how the better Jazz teams performed in the playoffs without a lot of help from the the three stiffs one can wonder.
 
anyone think that it was one of the stepping stones for deron to walk on in his path toward leaving the franchise?
 
jope said:
anyone think that it was one of the stepping stones for deron to walk on in his path toward leaving the franchise?
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I'm sure it contributed. But in hindsight it's turning out to be for the best. He can't stay healthy. That nets team has one more win than us, right?

They'll get more but I have a hard time believing they are real threats to do anything in the east and their tax bill will cost more than most teams entire payrolls. I guess that's what you can do when you have that kind of money.
 
If the Jazz matched Matthews contract then he would have played for the Jazz instead of the Portland Trailblazers.
 
A healthy Deron, Hayward, and Mathews would have been a nice little trio.


It was a mistake to let him go and sign Bell. I think it is the reason we traded Deron. We probably would have been a lot better that year.

Hindsight though, Deron peaked. Its good we bailed when we did.
 
The Jazz would have been winning more games, Deron wouldn't have been grumpy and feuding with Sloan, Sloan wouldn't have retired, Deron wouldn't have been traded, the Jazz would have had a good season. But we wouldn't have won a championship and by this season we wouldn't likely be any better off and we wouldn't be in contention for Wiggins/Parker probably.
 
Hack said:
A healthy Deron, Hayward, and Mathews would have been a nice little trio.


It was a mistake to let him go and sign Bell. I think it is the reason we traded Deron. We probably would have been a lot better that year.

Hindsight though, Deron peaked. Its good we bailed when we did.
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The Jazz were already planning on going into the luxury tax that season, and started the year with a $77mm payroll. There's no way they could have afforded paying an equivalent of over $18mm for Matthews. Bankrupting the organization wouldn't have done a lot to make D-Will happy.
 
Maybe we should have kept him but the real issue was that his contract would have pushed us into the luxury tax which means we would have been spending way more to keep him than simply his salary. It made him the cost of an elite SG.
 
The only way they could have matched his offer was if they had just let Boozer and Korver walk (renounced their rights), kept Kosta Koufos and NOT traded for Al Jefferson. KOC wanted another star player to team with DWill, thus the trade. It basically would have been tanking that season. . . which might not have been a bad idea instead of handing the reigns to Corbin and settling for three years of mediocrity. They should have blown it up then and there.
 
Ellis269 said:
The only way they could have matched his offer was if they had just let Boozer and Korver walk (renounced their rights), kept Kosta Koufos and NOT traded for Al Jefferson. KOC wanted another star player to team with DWill, thus the trade. It basically would have been tanking that season. . . which might not have been a bad idea instead of handing the reigns to Corbin and settling for three years of mediocrity. They should have blown it up then and there.
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In retrospect I think that would have been a better plan than the slide into mediocrity that we experienced. Of course, blowing teams up can have all sorts of collateral damage (as we're experiencing now) and there are no guarantees that something better will take the place of the team you destroy.
 
Plus, I'm not altogether convinced that KOC would have drafted very well had they tanked then. IMO his record was iffy at best, decent at worst. I have a lot more faith in Dennis Lindsey. Now he just needs to go get a stellar coach and I'll be fully behind his vision for the future.
 
Ellis269 said:
Plus, I'm not altogether convinced that KOC would have drafted very well had they tanked then. IMO his record was iffy at best, decent at worst. I have a lot more faith in Dennis Lindsey. Now he just needs to go get a stellar coach and I'll be fully behind his vision for the future.
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Iffy is better than decent?
 
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