We Now Have A Bench!!

[Natebishop3]

Dude's a baller.

But he looks like the kid from Swiss Family Robinson.

 

[Haakzilla]

I wanna add Gordon Hayward to our bench this offseason.

...and how do you propose the Blazers acquire him?!

 

[NOVoodoo]

...and how do you propose the Blazers acquire him?!

Was gonna say... isn't he the type of player that the Jazz value more than anything? For whatever they have to pay him in salary, they'll easily make up in fan support (ie: attendance, merchandise, etc.). I mean, let's not play dumb here... they've always been the sort of organization that plays to their fanbase. Not only is Hayward a valuable player, but he's a valuable "Utah" personality.

Hell, come to think of it, I don't know their cap situation, but I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to make a play at Redick.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Was gonna say... isn't he the type of player that the Jazz value more than anything? For whatever they have to pay him in salary, they'll easily make up in fan support (ie: attendance, merchandise, etc.). I mean, let's not play dumb here... they've always been the sort of organization that plays to their fanbase. Not only is Hayward a valuable player, but he's a valuable "Utah" personality.

Hell, come to think of it, I don't know their cap situation, but I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to make a play at Redick.

Just come out and say it's cause he's a whitey

 

[Mediocre Man]

Just stop it

 

[magnifier661]

Good luck with that, Redick...

He's a great player and maybe the best shooter in the entire league, but if some team pays him $10 mill per, that'll go down as one of the worst contracts of free agency.

Oh believe me, I don't think he's even close to getting that type of money. Just repeating what he publicly said he wants.

 

[blue9]

Wait for it. It won't be long, though, when someone will stop by to semi-scold....reminding us that this so-called bench improvement has been against the likes of the T-Pups and Bob-Pussies.

Well, it IS a fair point, isn't it?
But regardless of the competition, Maynor has been an enormous upgrade and helps make those around him look like borderline NBA players. I like what I've seen from Claver and think that next year he may actually be a semi-valuable bench player for us. So I think with those two we have 2/3rd of a bench unit. Leonard is about 0.5, given that he now seems semi-effective on the offensive end of the court when he has a PG who can get him the ball in position to score. Still need a "Microwave" off the bench. But we're so far ahead of where we were prior to the deadline!

 

[Pinwheel1]

Like I said at the beginning of the season, I think our bench has a lot of good individual pieces. Players that when teamed with better players look pretty good.
The problem was they played poorly with each other. Mainly because the lack of PG, but also because there was no go-to scorer that they could lean on. As others have said, we only needed one or two additions to make the bench decent. We now have a back up PG, and when Lillard moves to SG we have that too.

Now we just need to figure out how to get Lillard a rest.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I wanna add Gordon Hayward to our bench this offseason.

He'd be a good addition

 

[jlprk]

Just come out and say it's cause he's a whitey

We're talking about Utah. Ever been there? They won't let that honky go.

 

[ripmycity]

I agree our bench is playing well. We are one player from being a Western Final Contender. With also a Healthy Wesley.

 

[e_blazer]

I agree our bench is playing well. We are one player from being a Western Final Contender. With also a Healthy Wesley.

Well, yeah, if the one player is LeBron James.