Haha... yes, the Blazers should be worried about advancing Millsap's career. Why try to acquire a good young player when he could be so much more effective on another team, playing against them? Ed O.
Ridiculously stupid article. The people of Utah (generally speaking) have a weird sense of entitlement and lack of accepting ownership. The give a little blame to their GM, and the rest from outside of the organization. Uh, had Utah presented a reasonable offer to Millsap, it would have never come to this. Portland was interested, so they made an offer. If Portland is going to make an offer, did you really expect them to make a simple contract offer, one that Utah won't even think twice about matching? Their holier-than-thou attitude reminds of a group of individuals I encountered in high school (Hint: this group makes up a majority of those in Utah). Accept responsibility for your own issues.
I think this is a very good point... if Utah had presented a "vanilla" 4 year, $32m deal, I bet Millsap would have signed and the Jazz would not have had to worry about these liquidity issues. Ed O.
Says the team that also made a front loaded offer a few years back for Maggette and Jason Terry. Fuck the Jazz. I hate their whole organization. Even Ron Boone, who i used to have respect for, was trying to make the argument that the Blazers were playing dirty here with the jazz because we have a history of it (Using the Miles scenario as his example) Supposedly to him it is obvious that Portland was bullying Utah into a trade so they could Hinrich. Because there was no way we really wanted a PF.
Congratulations Salt Lake City and the Utah Jazz organization, you somehow managed to make me hate you even more.
Hell yeah. He'll be the starting PF on a title contender once LMA isn't extended and is used as trade bait at next year's deadline. I'd say that's an advancement for Millsap.
OK. So I commented before reading the column. The "advancing Millsap's career" part is a potential criticism of Millsap's camp, rather than the Blazers. I still don't think it's a very good point, but it's not insane, at least Ed O.
Really? I think that makes it worse. This writer knows what's better for Millsap than Millsap does? That's about the silliest thing ever. "The criticism that Millsap deserves is that he's not defending his own self-interests, as defined by me, a writer." I know he's explicitly talking about Millsap's agents, but they do his bidding. If he didn't want to play in Portland, he wouldn't sign.
Money talks. Even if he hated the idea of playing for Portland, there's no way he would turn that money down.
Yes, which is fine. My point is, he's looking out for his best interests as he defines them. Which makes a columnist criticism of him not doing so, based on what he thinks Millsap should be concerned about, rather silly to me.
Can you imagine if the situation were reversed? The Portland media would put maybe 5% blame on the Jazz (just to look "even-handed"), then start clog-dancing on KP's face. Meanwhile, the SLC media would be singing the praises of the Jazz for a smart move.
Unless I'm somehow reading this wrong this isn't the team issuing a statement, it's from a newspaper columnist... a Utah Canzano. Are the team officials publicly whining in quotes this writer didn't use to support his view? He seems to just be writing from the perspective of rooting for things to go their way. This approach has it's appeal in every market. Portland has their homers too. STOMP
I was thinking the same thing. The local writers would be grilling KP for not making a reasonable offer to the present and future PF of a playoff caliber team. But then again, one of the team's beat writers voted Brandon Roy 3rd team while leading the Blazers to being tied for the 2nd best record in the west while Deron got a 2nd team vote for doing more with less and finishing with a worse record.
