Due to Utah's play without Matt Harpring, and AK47's second half break out. I was wondering how valuabe is Matt Harpring to Utah? So I've got this down to 3 questions 1. How valuable is he to Utah? 2. How important is he to Utah's future? 3. Do you think he should be traded, and if so when? ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. He's valuable, he was leading them in scoring when he went down. 2. Not that important. They can play just as well without him with Gordan Giricek making up for his scoring. 3. Yes - Start of the season or a deadline deal. He's taking away minutes from AK47 who plays really well at SF. Utah should trade him after the Rocky mountain Revue preseason tournament. He'll average like 35 PPG, prove that he's healthy and it'll increase his worth.
1. How valuable is he to Utah? 2. How important is he to Utah's future? 3. Do you think he should be traded, and when? -------------------------------------------- 1. He is very Valuable 2. Giricek is a nice back up, but Harpring is just better 3. No, AK47 has adjusted to the PF, Harpring was your leading scorer and IMO the best player on your team at the moment, will Kirilenko be better than him, probably, but you need Harp.
As I recall, Harpring doesn't earn much money, and Utah's way under the cap anyway. You can't get bargains like him in a trade because salaries would have to match.
1. How valuable is he to Utah? 2. How important is he to Utah's future? 3. Do you think he should be traded, and if so when? 1) Harpring is very valuable, and if he was still playing I feel Utah would be in the battle for lest say the 6th spot. 2) I think he's pretty important, he's not snatching money and he can do goo things for the team, shoot, score and rebound well. 3) I don't think he should be traded at the moment, and if he is in the future someone valuable needs to be gotten. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> No, AK47 has adjusted to the PF, Harpring was your leading scorer and IMO the best player on your team at the moment, will Kirilenko be better than him, probably, but you need Harp.</div> Well he only plays PF when Harpring is their, and hasn't played it since Jan 3 and Jan 5 against the Rockets and the Mavs, and those were the first 2 games after Harpring had decided to end it for the season. Ruffin and Googs (when Utah got him) have been playing the 4 since then.
I personally like Gordan Giricek, I believe he's already posted a couple of 20 point performances, along with a 30 point performance a few days ago since his debut in Utah. He makes considerably less than Matt Harpring, and I believe with starting minutes his production can match what you saw from Harpring prior to his injury. They could trade Matt Harpring along with the draft picks they aquired from Phoenix and make a valuable addition. On top of that Utah has big contracts being erased from their payroll at the end of this season (Tom Gugliotta, Greg Ostertag, etc.) They will have a good chunk of cap space to aquire an allstar caliber free agent on the market. Personally I wouldn't be all that worried if Utah decides to move him, I think they can be successful regardless. Matt Harpring is certainly replaceable and with talent like AK47, Gordan Giricek, and possible offseason pick ups his replacement could come quite easily.
Giricek is one of the NBA's worst defenders, Harpring isn't a great defender but he's deifnately much better than GG, thats his only real problem. He has the offense but he's such a liability on D. Also no FA's really want to go to Utah and Kobe has already ruled them out b/c of what they did to Malone.
