Speaking as the last remaining Boozer advocate in this town, I don't get it.

Speaking as the last remaining Boozer advocate in this town, I don't get it.

At least someone in Utah is on my side.

From the SL Trib's Kurt Kragthorpe

over 2 years ago prodigal punk 7 comments 0 recs |

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If Boozer was always healthy, there's no way there'd be any debate about this

even if he’s only good for 16/10 (not 20/10 like some people seem to think).
The problems…

1- He’s not always healthy. Which ‘Sap isn’t as good offensively, at least you can count on him to be there 70+ games/season. The same can’t be said for Boozer.

2- Booze will, more likely than not, be gone after the season. The question is, are you willing to let Booze & ’Sap leave in back-to-back seasons? That leaves the Jazz very thin up front (The Koof, maybe Suton & Fesenko, maybe AK if you see him as a 4).

Kragthorpe is right though… Booze is probably a better deal at his salary than ‘Sap at $10 million (if he gets it)… provided, again, that he’s healthy.

As a Jazz fan, I’d love to see Booze succeed here. Really. I just don’t think it’ll happen.

1- The health. I’ll stop harping on this though.
2- I don’t see him sticking around after this season. With Greg Miller calling him out, and the fans all (for the most part) hating on him, I don’t see why he’d stick (though the Jazz could offer him more, I think, than other teams).
3- The Jazz need a defensive minded big in the middle, given how the rest of the team plays D. While I love The Koof & Fesenko & Suton, I don’t know if that’ll be enough. And Booze needs someone like that around him to succeed too (see his block numbers when playing alongside Z).

Actually, that makes me wonder… maybe, after the season, the Jazz try to resign Booze & get a defensive minded big in place of Okur?

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by UtesFan89 on Jul 1, 2009 8:55 PM MDT reply actions

utesfan...

you have another new blog?

by moni on Jul 1, 2009 9:25 PM MDT up reply actions

What?

No… just the 2 & twitter. why?

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by UtesFan89 on Jul 1, 2009 9:31 PM MDT up reply actions

well i just noticed the one in your signature

and i seem to remember a whole slew of your blogs in the past…starting from biased fan :-)

by moni on Jul 1, 2009 9:41 PM MDT up reply actions

lol

mostly it’s just the same blog with different names. :)

TBJ you know about, the other one is a baseball blog…

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by UtesFan89 on Jul 1, 2009 9:46 PM MDT up reply actions

That would be really unpopular

but i’d love to see Boozer and a more defensive minded big than Okur playing. I like Okur, and he is a good player, but it seems as though the Jazz have got enough offensive weapons…. Boozer cops a lot of crap for not being a good defender, but Okur doesn’t exactly set the world on fire defensively either….

I know the health has been an issue, and everyone questions his commitment (AK is another guy who cops less crap than Boozer for missing a heap of games as well) but the fact is that the Jazz are a much better team with Boozer in the line up than they are with Millsap. They have a chance to make some noise in the playoffs with Boozer, which they won’t have with Millsap playing one of the two most important positions in the Jazz system.

Millsap reminds me in some ways of Kurt Rambis. He’s a guy who works his butt off, and probably has overachieved, but the Lakers weren’t as successful as they were in the 80’s because of Rambis, it was the stars like Magic, Kareem and Worthy that put them over the top. In the same way, if the Jazz have Millsap as their starting power forward, they don’t have a hope of winning a championship.

I really enjoy being the only Pro Boozer person at SLC dunk :P

by sherbs on Jul 2, 2009 4:10 AM MDT up reply actions

It would be a lot easier

to be a Boozer supporter if we had that bigger, defensive minded guy (Camby?). But they don’t grow on trees… the Clips just traded Z-Bo, so the probably won’t trade Camby; the Grizz drafted Thabeet & we didn’t try to move up; Birdman will probably resign with Denver; etc.

But since we don’t, Okur seems to be the more popular guy.
I mean, if nothing else, he’s shut Yao down in recent playoff games (well, as much as you can shut down at 7’6 guy that’ll get his)… shut him down almost as much as T-Mac has when he has the ball. I don’t think Booze has shown the ability to shut anyone down, not even just randomly in the playoffs. I’d love to be a fan (a solid PF that should thrive in this system), but sometimes, he makes it so hard on us.

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RIP Nick Adenhart. 4/9/09

by UtesFan89 on Jul 2, 2009 6:15 AM MDT up reply actions