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Should we match Wesley Matthews offer sheet?

Would you match the offer sheet to Wesley Matthews?

  • **** NO!

    Votes: 59 85.5%

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 14.5%
  • Total voters
    69
Here's what I'd do. I'd call around the league and ask other GMs if they would want us to sign and trade them Matthews. What would we get in return? Lets see what his real market value is and decide how overpriced he is.

I think Portland wants to sign Matthews to trade him along with another one of their younger players. I can't imagine they'd pay that much for a back-up to Roy. How is he going to get on the court for more than 15 minutes? Portland sees this as an opportunity to pick up an asset and add value to their team without losing anyone. It's more player equity.
 
Matthews is nowhere near worth that contract. Again, this comes down to two things when you spend MLE money: A) What can the player reasonably be expected to produce or B) what is his upside? The answer to A is nobody knows. One year of data. MLE guys normally have 5 years of data. The answer to B is not much. No matter how great Wes' intangibles are, he's a poor athlete by NBA standards, and small. If you can't predict how a player will continue to play, and he already has limited upside, you don't pay 7 million averaged per season. There is absolutely nothing to think about with this. It's like splitting 7's when you're hot at the table. It could work. Usually doesn't. And if you haven't been drinking heavily, you walk away.
 
Catchall said:
Here's what I'd do. I'd call around the league and ask other GMs if they would want us to sign and trade them Matthews. What would we get in return? Lets see what his real market value is and decide how overpriced he is.

I think Portland wants to sign Matthews to trade him along with another one of their younger players. I can't imagine they'd pay that much for a back-up to Roy. How is he going to get on the court for more than 15 minutes? Portland sees this as an opportunity to pick up an asset and add value to their team without losing anyone. It's more player equity.
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I am not sure another team wants to shell out that kind of money to Matthews. I really think this is just a calculated move by Portland to hamper our finances down the road. I believe they think we lost Boozer and Korver, so now we have to re-sign Matthews. Let him go and watch the eggs drip off of their faces when they are paying a backup that kind of cash.
 
I voted yes. But NO is my real answer. Why can't we change votes like on other boards. ugh. lol
 
TheMulletMutilator said:
I am not sure another team wants to shell out that kind of money to Matthews. I really think this is just a calculated move by Portland to hamper our finances down the road. I believe they think we lost Boozer and Korver, so now we have to re-sign Matthews. Let him go and watch the eggs drip off of their faces when they are paying a backup that kind of cash.
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So they're willing to pay $7mm/year for 4 years to Matthews just to say 'screw you' to the Jazz? We have to be self-infatuated to think this is all about us. I think Portland likes him as an asset to play or trade. They think based on what they've seen that his value is going to rise to make that contract fair. They're just paying a bit of a premium to see if they can convince the Jazz not to match. They wouldn't offer that kind of contract unless they were serious about taking him on. I think they like Matthews and hope the Jazz are committed to Hayward enough so we'll let Matthews go.

In most cases, I think teams should match the offers on their RFAs. The Jazz supposedly overpaid to pry Okur away from Detroit when Okur was an RFA, but I think, all things considered, Detroit wished they matched the Jazz's offer sheet. Detroit hasn't had a PF/C who could score and rebound in a long time. They had to dip into the lottery to draft Greg Monroe.

How many years did it take the Jazz to get an SG with as complete a game as Matthews? We sifted through Kirk Snyder, Ronnie Brewer, Morris Almond, Gordan Giricek and Kyle Korver.... think how much money was wasted and how much we're saving if we don't have to go through that process all over again. Now the only question is whether Hayward makes Matthews irrelevant.

I think Portland is hoping we don't want Matthews anymore now that we drafted Hayward.
 
No. Matthews is a nice player but he's not that nice. Let Portland pay him while trying to find minutes with him, Roy, Batum, Fernandez, Babbitt, and Bayless.
 
Catchall said:
In most cases, I think teams should match the offers on their RFAs. The Jazz supposedly overpaid to pry Okur away from Detroit when Okur was an RFA, but I think, all things considered, Detroit wished they matched the Jazz's offer sheet. Detroit hasn't had a PF/C who could score and rebound in a long time. They had to dip into the lottery to draft Greg Monroe.
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That was a different time. The Jazz offer sheet was close to unmatchable for Detroit. If that happened today, they would have Bird rights and be able to match it. The same with the Boozer offer sheet. Both fall under the Arenas Rule.
 
troy said:
Where is the "*****YES!" option !!?

The Jazz needs to match in my opinion, it's a no brianer as far as i'm concern. Wesley has become our best defender in only a few months. He is very young, very though and you have to keep him no matter what.

The mistake here is allowing him to receive such offers. KOC should have known that portland would be able to make such an offer especially after the reports saying that they were interested in Matthews. They should have offered Matthews a good offer on the first day and thus signing him before Portland was making that toxic offer.

After letting Korver go i can't see the Jazz not matching this offer. That would be the worst offseason in years. And id we get back Ronnie Brewer that would top it off. A guy that even the Grizzlies don't want to keep, are you serious !?
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Damn it, troy is back.
 
Catchall said:
So they're willing to pay $7mm/year for 4 years to Matthews just to say 'screw you' to the Jazz? We have to be self-infatuated to think this is all about us. I think Portland likes him as an asset to play or trade. They think based on what they've seen that his value is going to rise to make that contract fair. They're just paying a bit of a premium to see if they can convince the Jazz not to match. They wouldn't offer that kind of contract unless they were serious about taking him on. I think they like Matthews and hope the Jazz are committed to Hayward enough so we'll let Matthews go.

In most cases, I think teams should match the offers on their RFAs. The Jazz supposedly overpaid to pry Okur away from Detroit when Okur was an RFA, but I think, all things considered, Detroit wished they matched the Jazz's offer sheet. Detroit hasn't had a PF/C who could score and rebound in a long time. They had to dip into the lottery to draft Greg Monroe.

How many years did it take the Jazz to get an SG with as complete a game as Matthews? We sifted through Kirk Snyder, Ronnie Brewer, Morris Almond, Gordan Giricek and Kyle Korver.... think how much money was wasted and how much we're saving if we don't have to go through that process all over again. Now the only question is whether Hayward makes Matthews irrelevant.

I think Portland is hoping we don't want Matthews anymore now that we drafted Hayward.
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Wrong, they are offering him that kind of deal because they think we are backed in a corner and must match. I am not saying they don't value him as a player. However, he certainly is not worth close to what they offered and now they are hoping their division rivals(us) screw ourselves over with a match.
 
No.

Waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too much for an average wing. Save the pennies for a real player.
 
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