Turkish Tweets Need Translating (Al Jefferson - Joakim Noah)

[orangello]

I was intrigued until I saw Noah's remaining contract. If he had two years, fine, but not at four. No thanks.

Unless we get the Charlotte pick.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I find this alleged deal unlikely, but not ridiculous. We could roll out Noah/Favors/Sap/Kanter for a year, look to trade Sap at the deadline, and move into the future with a Noah/Favors/Kanter frontline. Noah's a little overpriced in the new CBA, not crazy, but without Sap resigned he fits some version of 3 quality bigs to eat up the 96. Offensively, it could be brutal, but that's a bridge to cross.

What I find ridiculous is the Bulls starting Al and Boozer. That's just not going to work. And they can't trade Boozer so there's no option not to start them. So I'm not seeing the Bulls side of this.

They could start Jefferson and Gibson and bring Booze off the bench and Tommy is the guy with the balls to do it.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

We'd have a lot of defense but absolutely no offense (unless Favors has a BIG year next year).

IMO I'd rather let Al expire and see where things stand.. Noah certainly isn't cheap.

No offense? Check out Millsap, Noah and Favors' efficiency and points scored last year. Plenty considering Favors would then get more shots, as would some of our wings.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

With this trade I could see the jazz being a lot like the last pistons team to win a championship. It's not like Sheed and Ben were a great offensive duo or anything. Infact Favors and Noah might be a better combo

To go a step further, it's not like any of them were great offensive players. Not Prince. Not Hamilton. Not Billups. They were solid and sort of unique but hardly great. And I see no reason Hayward can't become our Hamilton. So to speak.

 

[pickledXgrandma]

Defense > offense. (See miami)

 

[pickledXgrandma]

Can you imagine how beastly our D would be with Noah and favors starting? I sticky my underwear when I ponder

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Well, 14 mil per a year for Noah is just atrocious. I do not remember any name gets injured oftenly more than him. Bulls wanna reorganized as it's been told. They lost all their bench mob (Asik, Watson, Brewer, Korver) and Rose is done till the allstar match. So it is logical for them to send Noah and have incredible cap space for the next year after amnestied Boozer. How bout for the jazz? You fill the C with Noah (Energy guy, good rebounder, good help defender, really good assist guy for a big but no offensive game, no post up or midrange game) So, no way they can be good with Favors and he will kill the improvement of Kanter. The advantage is he can play some PF too with Kanter but at this time what will Favors do? For me letting Al go after this season is more and more logical and useful for the team.

It's not 14M per year. It's 12M per. Big difference. And while I agree he's overpaid, I think he'd bring exactly what we need. A defensive 5 to help out Favors who wants to play the 4, scrappiness, selflessness. Dude wins be example. And to say he's always hurt is a little hyperbole. He played every game but two last season. Before that, it was definitely worse but still, he's played 69.2 games a year on average. Not God awful. In brief, it's risky financially, but I'd pull the trigger on this.

 

[cowhide]

$12 million or $14 million is still two much money. It is not a BIG difference. Beside the fact his contract is for four years. I have watch Noah and he is NOT a great defensive player. He plays hard but again his production doesn't match his contract. Do you seriously think that Kanter can't give us 10/10?

 

[spycam1]

I'm starting to not like this trade after all, mainly because of the length of his contract and the fact that, yes, Kanter could likely give us something very similar to Noah's production right now. I'd look for something better, or just let Al expire and see what we can get in free agency.

 

[NAOS]

the jazz really need a killah, so it's hard to dismiss this trade. While Noah isn't a great offensive player, he plays smart.

Plus, I'd love to see this team actually commit to playing defense. With Noah and Favors locking it up down low, you can let Paul play some minutes at 3 (giving us a great mismatch on the offensive end), maybe 7-10, which would give Kanter enough burn in year2.

The contract isn't nice, but we need a killah. period.

 

[theNBAnerd]

sounds like everybody is either -- 1) for this trade, but lukewarmly enough that they could be talked out of it, or 2) against this trade, but lukewarmly enough that they could be talked into it.

the particulars of THIS trade aside, i'm at least encourage. even if this reporter completely got the facts wrong, i believe in the smoke/fire correlation enough that i'm going to at least take this as a sign that our FO is not as "done" as i thought they were with the 2012-13 roster. yay.

 

[NAOS]

... i believe in the smoke/fire correlation enough that i'm going to at least take this as a sign that our FO is not as "done" as i thought they were with the 2012-13 roster. yay.

I'm praying and burning sage as we speak.