Jazz needed to make a move
I am a fan of the Jazz but consider myself an outsider of "JAZZ NATION". In other words I don't pray at the alter of Jerry Sloan and I believe some of the moves the Jazz make are not perfect. The prevailing thought throughout "JAZZ NATION" is that we will win a championship by just not doing anything more than keeping the team together. They will say things like we got to the Western Conference Championship last year and so this year we should win the West or the Title. I think we have missed a huge opportunity to improve our team and are therefore out of the Title talk for another year. The Jazz need to improve their interior defense, neither Okur nor Boozer are even average defenders. Okur has shown that if he concentrates on defense only (see last years series with the Rockets) he can be decent but neither one will stop a guy driving to the basket, let alone block a shot.
The Jazz have the pieces to make a move, any combination of Okur, Kirelinko, Miles, Brewer, Almond, Millsap and draft picks are available to make us better. I think if you go back and look at both the trade for Garnet and Gasol, the teams got less talent than any two of those player from the list above, and if it was us that picked up either Gasol or Garnet they would be talking about us winning a title instead of the Celtics or Lakers.
To win a championship you need to improve more than just getting one year older, the Stockton, Malone era should have taught us that. I am not sure if the Jazz are more interested in being good for a long time (ie selling tickets for 10 years) or doing what it takes to win a championship.
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Well I was under the impession that a "conservative capitalist pig" would understand the economics of small market teams. The Jazz will get worse when any of your listed players' contracts are up because Larry Miller won't pay superstar salaries, nor should he. The franchise prints money. Everyone knows that a title can be bought, but is that really why we are fans. I watch to see Sloan abuse refs and players. I watch to see the perpetual underdog occasionally stick it to the media darlings. I watch to see marginal players get better or get traded. I watch to see stars refuse to be traded to SLC. I watch because as an organization that has the real goal in mind, profitability, Utah usually wins.
"They" will never talk about the Utah Jazz winning a championship, becuase "They" could care less about any team not in one of the 10largest cities in America. Another reason I love the Jazz, perpetual underdog. If we had Garnet, Kobe, Superman, Agent Zero, Gasol, Nash, Ginobli, Carmello, and Shaq "they would say that another team is better and it would surprise the ESPN dorks when we won a championship. We surprise "them" every time we win a game, and it is going to surprise you when they beat the LA Fakers next round.
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