Roster activities
by Kfunk on Jul 22, 2011 4:33 PM MDT
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PrintThere is unfortunately a bit of a shortage of Basketball news so I’ve been trawling some other SBnation blogs to see how they feel about this player or that, and I came up with an idea. Roster re-building, but on steroids. Here are two exercises, pick just one or do both, it doesn’t have to be super fleshed out or it could be a masterpiece, just have fun with them.
Exercise 1. Pick a Superstar, any superstar, and you can define what that means, figure out a way to get them on the Jazz, and it can’t just be because the salaries match, do something that at least makes a little bit of sense for both teams. For example:
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=3gax6z4
Jazz receive: Gilbert Arenas, Dwight Howard, Ryan Anderson
Magic receive: Al Jefferson, Derrick Favors, Mehmet Okur, Paul Millsap
Obviously this wouldn’t happen, but it makes some sense for the Magic because they don’t have to worry about Howards contract anymore and they dump the Albatross of Gilbert Arenas’ Contract. They also receive a potential franchise player in Favors, A scoring Big in Al, an expiring contract in Memo, and A movable piece in Millsap.
Exercise 2. Pick two players that you want to keep on the Jazz, and build around. Add pieces to those players that makes what you believe is a championship team. (I know most of you will pick Hayward and Favors) Make logical trades that build what you believe could be a championship team in 3 years. You must trade at least 5 players. One of your trades must bring back a former Jazz player. You can make logical jumps about RFA’s. My example will be quite detailed, but here goes.
Trade 1. Al Jefferson and Memo for Antawn Jamison, Ramon Sessions, and Daniel Gibson.
Resign: Watson for minimum, Fes for 1 mil and 1 yearAK for 6 mil and 2 years. This gives us 4 PG’s?!?! just wait will you?
Trade 2. 3 team: Jazz receive: Boris Diaw, Andris Biedrins, future 1st round pick from GS; Bobcats receive: Devin Harris; Golden State receive: Paul Millsap
That would make a Lineup of:
PG: Sessions, Watson, Gibson
SG: Hayward, Burks, Bell
SF: Miles, AK, Evans
PF: Favors, Diaw, AK, Evans
C: Biedrins, Kanter, Favors, Fesenko
I know this team isn’t as good as what we have now, that’s not the point. We probably end up back in the lottery and keep the pick destined for Minnesota, lets say it ends up being 12th? We take A PG like Kabongo, Turner or Rivers. Miles and Diaw expire and a good portion of our Roster is expiring. I still have 1 Jazz player to trade right? Here it is:
Trade 3. Jazz receive: Danny Granger; Pacers receive: AK, Gibson, and GS 1st rounder.
Free Agents: Resign Evans, Sign Omer Asik
Lineup for 2012-2013:
PG: Sessions, Kabongo, Burks
SG: Hayward, Burks, Bell
SF: Granger, Evans
PF: Favors, Granger, Asik, Evans
C: Kanter, Asik, Beidrins
The goal then would be to Keep the team pretty much intact for 2013-2014, I think that team has the Potential to win a championship, especially if every player develops accordingly.
You guys have any ideas to post?
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Here's my exercise two:
1. Jazz trade Al to the Bucks for Bogut plus a draft pick.
Bucks do it because they decide Bogut will never return to pre-injury form, and a 20-10 guy sounds pretty good for them. Jazz do it because Kanters the future C, and they decide even if he doesnt recover completely, 25 minutes or so of 75% Bogut off the bench will kick some serous butt. Besides, Boguts passing was made for the Jazz offense.
2. Jazz trade Devin to the Hawks for Kirk + a 1st round pick.
Hawks do it because they need a youngish PG. Jazz do it so they have a placeholder PG+expiring contract for step 6.
3. Jazz start CJ next year, then trade him at the deadline for future picks when he has maximum value.
4. Jazz figure out how to use their plethora of draft picks to get Terrence Jones as the SF of the future in the next draft.
5. Millsap decides it’s for the best for him to come off the bench and destroy other team’s second units doing his thing with Bogut.
6. KOC makes a phone call at 12:00 a.m. July 1 next year to Deron Williams to let him know he has done as asked – built a contender for him. With the cap space available from expiring contracts, the Jazz sign the FA PG.
7. All young guys work hard and reach their potential, all bad vibes are forgiven, and the 2012-13 team begins a five-year dynasty.
Starters: Deron, Gordon, TJones, Favors, Kanter
Primary bench: Burks, AK (of course resigned), Sap, Bogut
Scrubs: Fes, Evans, whoever.
I got the crap beat out of me in Provo one time
deron doesnt want to come back to utah after they got rid of him
by jadedeed2327 on Jul 24, 2011 5:49 PM MDT up reply actions
Did you read the freaking post?
This isn’t about proposing realistic trades.
It’s about proposing some dream scenarios.
I got the crap beat out of me in Provo one time
D-Will
I was thinking about D-Will just last night. Utah could have a much better core (Kanter, Favors, Burks, Hayward, Milsap) than they did last year and seem like they could be very strong in just about every position except PG. If Williams really does want to contend, Utah should have the space and talent to give him what he wants.
Yeah maybe deron being traded was like snape being told to kill dumbledore
KoC (AKA dumbledore) knew that he wasn’t going to build a contender as the team was constituted talked to deron (aka Snape) about this crazy trade idea where we get crazy good assets. THe lock out happens so deron only has to play in new jersey for a couple months and then deron comes back as a free agent with a amazing team around him and boom 5 championships in a row
If that went down
The Jazz would be the most hated, reviled team in the league. That is a pretty low move.
Jazz trade Harris, Millsap and GS draft pick to New Orleans for Chris Paul.
New Orleans will do it, because they are going to lose Chris Paul anyway, and need to get the best value for him—and Harris, Millsap and a lottery pick is a good return for a player who has indicated he will not re-sign with New Orleans.
The Jazz do it, to get an allstar point guard in his prime, who can help mold and take the Jazz’s young talent to the finals.
Paul should stay with the Jazz, because he can still make the big bucks, and has enough talent on the team to get to the finals, even without Carmelo, Amare or the LA Lakers.
Also, the salaries match up.
by Fesenko for President on Aug 22, 2011 1:27 PM MDT reply actions
The Jazz then re-sign Kirilenko ($5 mil), Watson ($1 mil.) and Fesenko ($1 mil.) and have the following 2011-2012 roster at approx. $69.5 mil.:
PG: Paul, Watson
SG: Hayward, Burks, Bell
SF: Kirilenko, Miles, Evans
PF: Favors, Kanter
C: Jefferson, Okur, Fesenko
by Fesenko for President on Aug 22, 2011 1:31 PM MDT up reply actions
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