Per Quick- due to the Williams trade, we will stand pat and make no trades. Just heard it on the radio.
This! PA is screwin things up if this is true, he needs to GTF out of the way and let his GM work. "Quick reiterating that it appears Cho and Allen were not on the same page during a lot of these talks and that may have hindered actually getting anything done. Lots of discussions but no deals it doesn't seem like."
So you are thinking Blazers could have put together a more attractive offer than Williams for Harris and Favors?
Andre/Pryzbilla/Batum for DWill works...not sure that's a better offer than NJ's though...maybe add a couple of picks and cash.
I wish Mediocre Man were the Blazers GM. He gets it. You have to make trades, and MM would make trades. And he gives us this insight with just one scout. As a GM, he'd have lots!
It reminds me of the SNL skit about "Change Bank"; the bank that just made change. "How do we make money? Simple: Volume."
It appears PA is wiser than the KP replacement that Larry Miller brought him. Harris is just another aging, gimpy role player, they should have been going after Williams or someone of that quality. Otherwise, BAKE IT! PA needs to blow up and rebuild his front office with basketball people before he attempts to improve his team personnel.
I think they could have put together a more attractive offer than Harris and Favors for Williams. I doubt PA ever had interest in Harris.
What kind of package are you thinking of. The Blazers offers would have been expiring contracts, but the Jazz look to being more intent on acquiring pieces for the long haul. Both Harris and Favors are keepers, and don't forget the multiple first round picks the Nets were able to include in the package. Short of including LaMarcus in an offer, I can't think what the Blazers could have given that would have been more attractive.
It will take a couple of years, but the Jazz will come out of this better than if they had waited for Williams to stiff them in 2012.
