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Boozer Agrees to Terms With Bulls (5 yrs/80 mil)

Laughable. Pathetic. And predicted.

The Jazz FO are both cowardly and inept. After drastically over-valuing and, likewise, over-spending on third-rate talent like Okur, they find that they can't "afford" to re-sign Boozer.

Many are overjoyed by this. But that's an inherent misunderstanding of Sloan's system and the basic tenets/skillsets required to make for a contending offense.

This team has no plans to contend? Well, I suppose the extrapolated value is inverse to any idea of real value, then. Give reality time to graft itself onto even the dimmest bulbs of this board, maybe even the Miller family, and it's likely that the word 'disaster' relative to cause&effect will be inescapably obvious in relation to the moves over the last couple of offseasons.

And those yet to come. By that I mean go. But I'm sure Jazz "fans" even now are busy convincing themselves that Deron's an overrated piece as well.

I've seen talk of cap-space, but for what? This league is depleted on post talent, and Utah just allowed a very good post anchor to walk in order to keep Andrei Kirilenko's broken psyche and brittle body, and/or Okur's now-literally worthless towel-waving, dough (rolling?) body.

What FA top flight post talent is going to consider Utah, let alone choose Utah? Or is that beside the point?

And if so, what was the point of keeping the trash Utah still has in place of Boozer?

Incompetent on a tautological, inbred scale.

All in all, par. Worse than worthless.
 
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Mm. It's a great visual expression of an internalization: G-d's lonely man; out to sea, and searching for light. Pretty much the character and film arc.

Seems appropriate as far as Utah's (and Deron's place on the Jazz) place in the NBA at the moment.

Drowning.

Iridescent algae versus Greg Miller's brain.
 
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JAZZFAN_2814 said:
Laughable. Pathetic. And predicted.

The Jazz FO are both cowardly and inept. After drastically over-valuing and, likewise, over-spending on third-rate talent like Okur, they find that they can't "afford" to re-sign Boozer.

Many are overjoyed by this. But that's an inherent misunderstanding of Sloan's system and the basic tenets/skillsets required to make for a contending offense.

This team has no plans to contend? Well, I suppose the extrapolated value is inverse to any idea of real value, then. Give reality time to graft itself onto even the dimmest bulbs of this board, maybe even the Miller family, and it's likely that the word 'disaster' relative to cause&effect will be inescapably obvious in relation to the moves over the last couple of offseasons.

And those yet to come. By that I mean go. But I'm sure Jazz "fans" even now are busy convincing themselves that Deron's an overrated piece as well.

I've seen talk of cap-space, but for what? This league is depleted on post talent, and Utah just allowed a very good post anchor to walk in order to keep Andrei Kirilenko's broken psyche and brittle body, and/or Okur's now-literally worthless towel-waving, dough (rolling?) body.

What FA top flight post talent is going to consider Utah, let alone choose Utah? Or is that beside the point?

And if so, what was the point of keeping the trash Utah still has in place of Boozer?

Incompetent on a tautological, inbred scale.

All in all, par. Worse than worthless.
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So what should they have done with Boozer? Matched? Traded him?

If Memo didn't tear his Achilles his deal for what his production is compared with what has been handed out this off season would be very reasonable. But the ineptness of the Jazz front office should have seen he was going to get hurt right?
 
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So what should they have done with Boozer? Matched?
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I know, unthinkable, right?

As opposed to matching Millsap. Or extending or Okur. Or keeping Kirilenko at max money.

Neocons plan wars better than the Jazz FO evaluate roster talent.

If Memo didn't tear his Achilles his deal for what his production is compared with what has been handed out this off season would be very reasonable. But the ineptness of the Jazz front office should have seen he was going to get hurt right?
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Okur was an albatross before the injury.

Thinking that extending Okur was a good deal, injured or not, is oxymoronic. He's a leech in Sloan's system, whereas Boozer was a high-value post presence -- as opposed to a guard playing center -- that the offense could be run through in a symmetrically-positive manner (he put in as much as he got out).

If you know anything about basketball or, Jerry Sloan's system, you also know that these moves will vitiate that system's effectiveness. Non-starter, in more ways than one.
 
JAZZFAN_2814 said:
I know, unthinkable, right?

As opposed to matching Millsap. Or extending or Okur. Or keeping Kirilenko at max money.

Neocons plan wars better than the Jazz FO evaluate roster talent.



Okur was an albatross before the injury.

Thinking that extending Okur was a good deal, injured or not, is oxymoronic. He's a leech in Sloan's system, whereas Boozer was a high-value post presence -- as opposed to a guard playing center -- that the offense could be run through in a symmetrically-positive manner (he put in as much as he got out).

If you know anything about basketball or, Jerry Sloan's system, you also know that these moves will vitiate that system's effectiveness. Non-starter, in more ways than one.
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At the time they extended Memo he was coming off a year where he averaged 17ppg shot 48% 44% on 3's 7-8rpg. For 10M a year? Totally reasonable, besides who would have you replaced him with at that price?
I would contend he would have STILL got that much this year on the open market (assuming he didn't tear his Achilles).

Commend you on having the balls to say the Jazz should have matched on Boozer. I can see that argument. Just a risky one. Missed 1/3 of his games, 28 years old, 6years. 16M a year. I liked Booze and was all for him coming back, but that was too high of a number imo. Millsap was decent in a starting role. AK was an All-Star at the 4 when he started there. I would have signed him to maybe 12Mish but 16M is a lot, especially for a small market team already strapped.
 
I can't even be sad about this. Chicago just got punked. The ONE YEAR that Booz stays really healthy in Utah is a contract season...does anyone really think it's a coincidence? Look at Booz's track record - commitment issues at Duke under Coach K (Read Five Point Play, Coach K's memoir of the 2001 national championship team...interesting Boozer insights there), his fleecing of Cleveland - Boozer is a mercenary, nothing more nothing less.

Can't wait to see the Chicago media rip Boozer when he misses two months with a yeast infection. See ya Carlos.
 
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