Utah Jazz add DeMarre Carroll to the Jazz. Welcome home @DeMarreCarroll1

by AllThatJazzBasketball on Feb 8, 2012 5:34 PM MST in Utah Jazz - Trades & Transactions

As per all the big-wigs on Twitter, the Utah Jazz have added DeMarre Carroll to the roster. Some of you may not know much about him; so let's go over some DeMarre Facts:

He's 25 years old
He was a 1st round draft pick (#27) by the Memphis Grizzlies back in 2009
He's 6'8 and many places don't know how much he weighs (but more than Jeremy Evans, and less than Greg Ostertag)
He has played in 87 NBA games, and 6 NBA-DL games
At the NBA level he's a guy who has career averages of 2.7 ppg in 10.0 mpg.
He also brings 1.9 rpg, 0.5 apg, 0.3 spg, and 0.1 bpg to the table
He split his NCAA career between Vanderbilt University and the University of Missouri
In college he finished with 11.2 ppg (53.5 fg%), and 6.0 rpg
Filling in a need for the team, he has gone 0 for 6 from three at the NBA level
He has played for the Grizz, the Houston Rockets, and Denver Nuggets in his NBA career

And most importantly, he's now going to be on our Utah Jazz, so we love him and wish him the best! Good luck DeMarre! You can all follow him on twitter here!

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Why did we pick this cat up?

I really hope he is behind Burks on the depth chart…. Or i’m going to lose my mind. Good luck to him though, hope he’s been working on threes.

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by Bebop on Feb 8, 2012 5:46 PM MST reply actions

I can't understand this either

He isn’t going to snake any time from Favors or Kanter right? Both of them aren’t getting enough minutes as it is.

by Wisco_Ute on Feb 8, 2012 5:51 PM MST up reply actions

a signal that a trade for raja or cj is imminent to open up more playing time for burks?

i hope so.

by bigdog'sshades on Feb 8, 2012 5:51 PM MST up reply actions

Better yet

maybe they’re getting rid of Howard

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by Bebop on Feb 8, 2012 5:55 PM MST up reply actions

They can't get rid of Howard.

He has a no trade clause.

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by ForTheLove on Feb 8, 2012 6:06 PM MST up reply actions

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

you’ve destroyed my dreams of a Howard free Jazz team this season :’(

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by Bebop on Feb 8, 2012 6:08 PM MST up reply actions

I know. This crushed a lot of my dreams

the first time I logged on to the ESPN trade machine when it went back online.

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by DWest on Feb 8, 2012 6:34 PM MST up reply actions

He just can’t be traded until March 1st because he was a free agent signing this year. If when you’re on the trade machine, you can hover over the circle with the line through it and it will explain it.

by SexualFavors15 on Feb 8, 2012 8:17 PM MST up reply actions

They can trade him if a team he likes goes after him

It really means they won’t be trading him to NJ for Deron.

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by Yucca Man on Feb 8, 2012 6:09 PM MST up reply actions

I can understand if the Jazz have liked him for awhile

But why a contract for the rest of the year instead of a couple of 10 day contracts?

by JazzMT on Feb 8, 2012 6:46 PM MST up reply actions

So this either means

that someone will be cut very soon, or someone (or more than one someone) will be traded very soon, right?

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by DWest on Feb 8, 2012 6:49 PM MST reply actions

WTF?

Why we get this guy when we have three guys (Tinsley, Burks, and Evans) who don’t get minutes to begin with?

Add another big guy as we ship one out in Memo?

by king.nothing on Feb 8, 2012 6:49 PM MST reply actions

holy shtblls

I would get my hopes up that a trade was going down…. But this is not how KOC operates. Breaking news, Jeremy Evans and Alec Burks to be cut..

by zdid on Feb 8, 2012 6:58 PM MST reply actions

More like Jeremy Evans and Jamaal Tinsley.

But still. Disappointing either way.

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by DWest on Feb 8, 2012 7:05 PM MST up reply actions

yeah, TIC

I was sticking with the “youngsters who haven’t gotten enough of a chance” theme.

by zdid on Feb 8, 2012 8:07 PM MST via Android app up reply actions

Oh, of course.

:P Oops.

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by DWest on Feb 8, 2012 9:50 PM MST up reply actions

you know he is a small forward right?

maybe he is here to back up howard, so we can have hayward at 2? or maybe there is an injury we don’t know about

by gubihero on Feb 8, 2012 8:27 PM MST reply actions

these were my thoughts as well

i mean it could mean a trade is in the future but doesn’t have to mean that and knowing the Jazz probably not

by dianaallen on Feb 8, 2012 10:30 PM MST up reply actions

This may not mean much

It’s possible he’s a guy they considered drafting, but chose Maynor instead. Now he’s available and there’s not a lot of risk to giving him a chance and seeing what he can bring.

On top of that, if they do end up making a trade at some point in the future, he could be there to fill out a roster spot (especially if they were to trade someone like CJ or Raja).

by flibbidy on Feb 8, 2012 10:04 PM MST reply actions

That may be correct by why sign a guy for the rest of the year instead of 10 day contracts?

Between the 2 and 3 we already have Hayward who needs minutes, Bell who is shooting pretty well, C.J. who drives the lane better than anyone on the team, and Howard who’s looked poor lately, but I liked what I saw earlier in the season. Plus Burks and Evans who are riding the pine. I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t see many free minutes right now.
Maybe they’re bringing him in with long range plans thinking that they’ll need some depth at SF next year?

Probably over thinking all of this, not much else to talk about with how we’ve played the last couple of games.

by JazzMT on Feb 8, 2012 10:20 PM MST up reply actions

On an unrelated note

When is the trade deadline this year?

by Caderade on Feb 8, 2012 10:28 PM MST reply actions

March 15

Hopefully by then we’ll know if we’re a contender or a pretender (lottery team).

by socaljazzfan on Feb 8, 2012 10:49 PM MST up reply actions

kyle weaver played 1, 2, and 3 for us

i thought we should have brought him back for this year. not so. i want to know what demarre’s role is going to be on this team. replacement hustle guy if we trade millsap? veteran who leap-frogs some of our younger guys? something else? practice squad dude?

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Feb 8, 2012 10:49 PM MST reply actions

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That has shoulder length hair. GO JAZZ!

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by Loaf619 on Feb 8, 2012 10:53 PM MST reply actions

i'm all for giving him a shot!

i hope he kicks ass

by handlogten on Feb 9, 2012 7:57 AM MST reply actions

Your user bio says you are a Nashville Preds fan. Do you have any Nashville ties?

Is that why you’re willing to give this former ’Dore a shot?

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by MTN on Feb 9, 2012 8:13 AM MST up reply actions

naw, no ties there.

i actually just chose a random team there because thats the one sport i dont like lol.

by handlogten on Feb 9, 2012 9:53 AM MST up reply actions

I'm excited because he went to Vandy.

I’m not excited because I don’t see any minutes for him, unless it is in place of Howard. Unless a trade is afoot, it seems odd to make a move that isn’t at PG.

If this is in anticipation of a trade, doesn’t it kind of tip our hand to sign him before making a trade? If we need him to fill in for Millsap (for example), wouldn’t he be just as available after making that trade?

It’s a very odd move. The kind of thing Isiah Thomas would do.

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by MTN on Feb 9, 2012 8:12 AM MST reply actions

Although not the primary reason for signing him

I wonder if the FO hopes to spark a fire in the team by bringing in another guy to stir things up. If they don’t have any intentions of bringing Howard back next year, it is a good idea to get a guy experience with the team to prepare him for next season. Looking at it that way, it is depth for the future and a potential boost for the team right now. Like I said, this is probably not the main reason, but it could be a contributing factor.

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by JD23UT on Feb 9, 2012 9:10 AM MST reply actions

That would be tantamount to admitting that we're "Rebuilding"

If I were a reporter, that’s what I would ask KOC. “Does this signing mean that you are in rebuilding mode now?”

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by MTN on Feb 9, 2012 11:03 AM MST up reply actions

A very strange move.

Most teams have been cutting players like Demarre Carroll, in order to have more “roster flexibility” in order to make a move. The Jazz need a shooter, yet sign a “slasher,” giving them less roster flexibility to get the type of player they really need.

Those of us who have regularly attended a Christian church have probably heard the saying, “God’s ways are not man’s ways.” Perhaps it is also true that “KOC’s ways are not fans ways.”

This player signing sure is a puzzlement. It almost seems like KOC and Greg Miller are just messin’ with us fans a bit.

by Fesenko for President on Feb 9, 2012 9:24 AM MST reply actions

Greg Miller double-dared KOC to do it when they were both getting high after the Laker game.

(and for the record, the whole “God’s ways are not man’s ways” comes out of Isaiah, which is – at least originally – jewish text….We gotsta be inclusive at SLCDunk!)

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by MTN on Feb 9, 2012 11:05 AM MST up reply actions