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the top 5 worst jazz signing in past decade?

Borat said:
Absolutely wrong. We didn't have to offer him MAX extension. Sure, Gasol signed one, but AK was still under contract. If we did not offer MAX and he played a year, we would still have his rights and could match any offer (for less money than what we gave him). Jazz have only themselves to blame for this blunder. And by the way, AK could have been traded several times and even offered to void his contract. Jazz did not agree. No one to blame here but themselves.
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You don't think AK would have commanded a max deal offer after his 04-05 season?
 
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Amaechi. We should have known he wasn't a Jerry Sloan kind of guy.
Kirk Snyder. Shouldn't have ever drafted him.
Luther Wright. Big risk at where we drafted him.
Trading for Curtis Borchardt.
Raul Lopez. With that scrawny body, was never gonna be confused with John Stockton.

As far as I know, these 5 never did ANYTHING toward building an NBA career.

Guys like AK, even Devin Brown and Jason Hart, did have some good moments, although much too brief:cool:.
 
royzzz said:
Wow! Nobody mentioned Boozer signing after all the Boozer hate? Interesting!
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As one of the most critical of Boozer on here I have to say. The original signing was not a bad deal. It's just that the Boozer/Memo front court was shown to be a failure a couple years into that particular experiment and should have been split up long before now. Also the franchise had no way of knowing Boozer just had no interest in staying on the court for a good portion of that contract or that he would turn out to be such a *****.

Now if the Jazz had just given Boozer an 80M dollar deal that took him into his mid 30's this would have made the #1 spot.
 
NotDeadYet said:
Correction:

Amaechi. We should have known he wasn't a Jerry Sloan kind of guy.
Kirk Snyder. Shouldn't have ever drafted him.
Luther Wright. Big risk at where we drafted him.
Trading for Curtis Borchardt.
Raul Lopez. With that scrawny body, was never gonna be confused with John Stockton.

As far as I know, these 5 never did ANYTHING toward building an NBA career.

Guys like AK, even Devin Brown and Jason Hart, did have some good moments, although much too brief:cool:.
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Luther Wright was in the past decade?
 
Honestly if you look at it KOC only big mistake(which may have been forced by LHM) was signing AK for way too long and too much money.

Boozer as the worst move? Seriously? As far as signing he might have been the best signing the Jazz have EVER made.
 
Chad Feldheimer said:
Honestly if you look at it KOC only big mistake(which may have been forced by LHM) was signing AK for way too long and too much money.

Boozer as the worst move? Seriously? As far as signing he might have been the best signing the Jazz have EVER made.
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The only mistake they made with Boozer was not drafting him in 2002. They realized their mistake and remedied it . Just like they're doing with Big Al.
 
Too many to name just 5.
Luthor Wright was a busted draft pick, he never set foot on the Jazz court, and it reminds me of a Jazz trade for Ronny Seikly who bailed out for Greece! Ostertags' huge contract is a certain bust too, along with AK for contracts.
 
I don't think there were any bad signings, necessarily. To me, it is more about the signings we missed. For example, I don't think the signing of Raja Bell is a bad one in terms of him as a player and especially a player on the Jazz. I do think that the Jazz signed him for $1million per year too much and for one too many years because it cost the Jazz getting Shannon Brown and Brewer. With that, the Jazz have a lack of shooting guards with Bell being the only true 2-guard on the roster.
 
green said:
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Harp Extension
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I don't like the Memo signing, but had he stayed healthy, and had he been a FA, he would have made a lot more than what he will be paid this year. Memo's contract is nothing more than bad luck. If Memo was healthy, that extension would have been genious for KOC.
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AK was an unforced error. they did not play the game and force someone to match. However, Based on recent history, Portland may have paid the max and forced our hand anyway.....

Passing on Mo Williams for 1.5 mill was a BIG mistake he has turned into an all-star would have been an asset

Harp's fourth year was a mistake and I was upset at the time.

Tag was too high and raised expectations beyond his capability.

Amichi rounds it out for me.
 
ekimebirt said:
AK was an unforced error. they did not play the game and force someone to match. However, Based on recent history, Portland may have paid the max and forced our hand anyway.....

Passing on Mo Williams for 1.5 mill was a BIG mistake he has turned into an all-star would have been an asset

Harp's fourth year was a mistake and I was upset at the time.

Tag was too high and raised expectations beyond his capability.

Amichi rounds it out for me.
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Saying Mo Williams is an all-star is like saying Memo's one. And that's not a compliment.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
Saying Mo Williams is an all-star is like saying Memo's one. And that's not a compliment.
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Yes it is. It is better to be an all-star lite, or a all-star sub, or a guy-the-coaches-think-is-pretty-darn-good-so-we'll-throw-him-a-bone than not... OUr option with Mo Williams was Lopez. So I would have rather had Mo Williams, a pretty darn good player. That was probably the best example of a non-signing mistake of someone we knew well.
 
Is the subversive point of this thread to prove that the FO has been pretty good? Because it's working. If an overpaid but still productive AK is number one, and everyone's arguing what order Harp, Amaechi, Giricek, or Arroyo come in, then I think we're in good hands. Contrast it with the positive moves and it looks even better. Not much signing of FA's, but Booze, Okur, and to a lesser extent Matthews were pretty impressive. The Gugs deal might not have turned out as storybook as everyone dreamed, but Hayward should be much better than what we could have gotten at our usual 25. Moving up to get Deron reigns supreme in the draft. And first round misses have been largely offset by second round finds like Sap and CJ. If Big Al works out, they can sign KOC to a contract for life as far as I'm concerned.
 
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