<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Jazz had a trade in the works that would have brought "a shooter" to the team, Kevin O'Connor said Thursday, but like most teams around the NBA on a relatively quiet deadline day, they were unable to reach an agreement that made sense for both parties. The deadline passed at 1 p.m. Thursday with the Jazz's current 15-player roster intact. "It was very busy, but most of the phone calls were not anything of substance," O'Connor, the Jazz's senior vice president of basketball operations, said after declining to make a trade. "Mostly, they were just inquiries." There was one exception, O'Connor told radio station KZN late in the afternoon. "We were looking to try to get a shooter, but there's just not a lot of those guys out there," he said. "We got pretty close, but didn't get it done. It was the numbers that didn't work." Shooting guards Voshon Lenard and Flip Murray were traded by the deadline, but Lenard went to Portland and Murray to Cleveland. O'Connor said he received the most inquiries about forward Matt Harpring and center Greg Ostertag, two players whose contracts - Harpring's salary is $5 million and Ostertag's is $4.4 million - expire in June, allowing teams that acquired them to clear space under the NBA's salary cap. </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
Who were the shooters? Any more info? I heard J.R. Smith and Brent Barry would have been part of a MULTI-team deal but it fell apart at the last minute.
Smith isnt a Sloan type of player... Barry would make a lot of sense... but in the end, the Jazz will benefit from having a Harpring or Ostertag than from having a Barry-type of player...
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Rocket:</div><div class="quote_post">Smith isnt a Sloan type of player... Barry would make a lot of sense... but in the end, the Jazz will benefit from having a Harpring or Ostertag than from having a Barry-type of player...</div> Ostertag doesn't even play anymore How does it benefit us having Ostertag? Only thing is he has an expiring contract...
