Raja Bell Coming Back?

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supposedly he’s vegetarian.

For baseball fans… he’s definitely pulled that off better than Prince Fielder…

is thinking right now: Wait, we offered how much for our backup SG?

will bring all the positives that Fisher brought (veteran leadership, defense, solid 3 pt shooter) without a lot of the problems that Fisher brought (lack of defense, chucker, etc.)

I guess that makes sense though… with Deng & Korver already there (& Redick maybe?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V8ZukXsWmk

I think, though, that the money really was more than they were willing to pay for Matthews.
At a reasonable deal, he’d be back. But Portland overpaid him, and the front-loaded contract didn’t help.

But that’s why it’s only a 3 year deal. I expect him to be able to play just fine.

I don’t know if it was the shooting wrist. That’s a good question.

He should be back healthy though cause he missed all of last year.

He won’t be starting I don’t think. I would think he’d be back up to CJ miles at the 2. If he does start. I won’t be upset about it though.

we need veteran leadership in the worst way.

Ironically, he injured it against us.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/bobcats/2009-10-20-raja-bell-wrist-injury_N.htm

We love the kid.

Kevin Pritchard was a great GM for you guys and this may be the start of something bad happening when it comes to handling roster construction with your team. But then again, you have Paul Allen as an owner and he is loyal to his franchises to keep them well funded (I am a Seahawks fan).

also has a lot to do with it to. Don’t blame him.

this is why i’m now ok with al jefferson on the jazz.

KOC’s nickname should be stealth ninja? I guess that’s redundant cause all ninjas are stealthy but he is one sneaky sob.

What must happen is that other front offices just leak crap to the media so fans think they’re actually doing stuff when nothing is actually getting done. The Jazz must oppose those kinds of shenanigans.

with lockout pending, Matthews is best served taking the biggest deal he can.
There’s no guarantee there’s a season next year (2011-2012), so the biggest
deal makes sense.

As for the Jazz, offering him during the season was impossible, I think due to
the was the CBA is structured (at least thats what I got from Siler). And after the
season… KOC works slowly. It works out, sure, but he works really slowly.
Unless there’s a bunch of needs, he’s not going to go sign a guy the first week
or whatever.

first and foremost, this started with the jazz not giving him an offer. given his performance over the season and playoffs, the jazz should have realized that someone would give him an offer, and i think a 4mill/yr contract would have been reasonable and wesley would have taken it (even his own dad said he was worth 3-5).

that said, wesley should’ve known when he signed an offer sheet that called for the jazz to pony up 9 mill right away (though i don’t blame him for signing it esp if that was the only one that he got) that the jazz would have a hard time matching.

now, the thing is that he seems to be taking it personally that the jazz didn’t give him an offer—which he shouldn’t because that’s how they prefer to operate, and this is how they handled cj and millsap as well.

Might I say that this is sort of how the Jazz lost Raja in the first place. If I remember correctly Raja felt unwanted or unimportant to the Jazz after fielding phone calls the minute free agency opened from various teams including the Suns and hearing nothing from SLC. It may be more of an ego thing than anything else, but if massaging the ego of good players who play well in this system is necessary at times, I think it’s a skill that the Jazz FO should learn. Thankfully, Raja doesn’t hold grudges against anyone but Kobe.

Wesley Matthews charges Jazz never made him an offer, but team was told from beginning it would take max midlevel to re-sign him. Jazz wanted to talk about three- and four-year contract options. Why would they start bidding at the ceiling of what could be offered? So they told Wes that if he wanted max midlevel, he’d have to go out and get it and they’d decide about matching. Greg Miller was incredibly gracious to Wes, saying, "I’m really happy for him and for his family and I think it’s a great success story."

that really on the table though?

We would be minus AK, so we wouldn’t have him or the depth. Secondly, I believe Favors is going to be great. I do. I like his game. But next season and probably for the next two years at least, Al Jefferson is better than both Elton Brand or Derrick Favors for the Jazz. I actually think we now have a team that can compete for the 2nd seed. If you trade AK for Brand and Favors, you can’t say that.

This is all to say, IF the deal was even really available to get Favors and Brand.

but from a negotiation and leverage standpoint, it really is best to let the ‘other guys’ make the first offer. Wes might be disappointed Utah didn’t make an offer. but the reality is there is no way he would have just signed it unless it had been for the MLE which his agent had been asking and the Jazz wouldn’t have offered that. they would have shopped and he’d be gone regardless.

Wesley Matthews charges Jazz never made him an offer, but team was told from beginning it would take max midlevel to re-sign him.

Jazz wanted to talk about three- and four-year contract options. Why would they start bidding at the ceiling of what could be offered?

So they told Wes that if he wanted max midlevel, he’d have to go out and get it and they’d decide about matching.

has never played with a point guard who helped him create shots. Tony Allen, Marko Jaric, Randy Foye, Johnny Flynn<<<<<<<<<<<<<Ninja.

hard to compare what Al’s production was in Minnesota to what it will be in Utah with Deron and Sloan’s system.

if AK gets some backup 4 minutes this year. Who else will do it?

Jefferson will mostly play the 5, Millsap the 4. Who will backup Millsap? Sure Evans might get minutes but AK will too. Also, AK was very effective last year at the 3 and should continue to be.

Seems he’ll bring a lot of the intangibles that Fisher brought but is a better 3 point shooter and better defender.

Too bad he’s not in a Jazz uniform

But mostly because I didn’t understand why we were making a move to put us into the luxury tax if we were just going to have to dump salaries to get back under…

How confident are you guys feeling that we don’t follow last year’s pattern of trying to avoid the luxury tax?