They made the NBA Finals and fell apart because of the lack of depth in the front court due to Karl Malone's freak injury. Slava Medvedenko was the starting PF at times. GP fit in just fine when Kobe, Shaq & Malone were healthy. Anyways that was over 7 years ago. If he does decide to leave he should pair up with a franchise big man.
you said whoever it takes. if he wanted out and it came to a bidding war our "roll players" wouldn't be a competetive offer.
Not to rain on the parade, scheduled roughly a year and a half from now... But to get Williams we'll either have to trade for him, or have had big salary dumps for expiring contracts. Given that we're trying to win, I don't see us trying to unload salary, so it'd either have to be a Sign & Trade or just Deron demanding a trade. Either way the Jazz have SOME amount of control in the matter, and I just cannot see ANY FEASABLE WAY, short of demanding Roy, that they would agree to trade their superstar to a division rival. As excited as I got about those comments, I don't think it really improves our chances of getting him in the future much, other teams yeah, us, notsomuch. Honestly, I think (all speculation here) we'd have a better chance at trying to get into it by making it a 3 way trade and trying to get a young, talented PG from a team looking to win (ie- If NJN get Wall AND Lebron, but after a year Lebron sees adding DWill as a big upgrade, we trade for Wall, something like that). But then we run the risk of sending OUR good, young talent to a division rival... The other possibility would be if Boozer left this offseason for nothing, Okur and Sloan retire, and they go to crap -- need to rebuild... Is any of this possible? Sure! Fun to think about? You bet. But it'd take some time, work and headaches to get it realistic...
Shouldn't Deron just grow up and get over losing his "little brother" Brewer? I wonder if he has the mental strength to be a winner in the NBA.
