[QUOTE]Chad Ford on night of 2013 Draft -
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[QUOTE]Chad Ford on night of 2013 Draft -
[QUOTE]His season was derailed by a stress fracture of his left patella (knee cap) sidelining him for 8 weeks on January 29th.
He played 9 D-league games as well, scoring 11pts, grabbing 5 rebounds and dishing 2 assists while shooting 46% and hitting 33% of his three
Eric Pincus: The Cavaliers sent $1.3 million to the Jazz to get the trade done today Twitter @EricPincus
[QUOTE]On Thursday, France also announced that big man Kevin Seraphin was not being released for the World Cup by his NBA team, the Washington Wizards. Seraphin has not fully recovered from arthroscopy surgery on his knee. FIBA.com
So with star center Alexis Ajinca announcing shortly before the start of the preparations for the FIBA Basketball World Cup that he will remain with his pregnant wife, who is due to give birth during the tournament, instead of playing this summer, Collet is okay. He'll have his squad ready when they arrive in Granada, Spain, for Group A games against Serbia, Brazil, Iran, Egypt and the tournament hosts. "This is a blow," he said of losing his 2.15m tall starting center, "but we must move forward with those who are there." FIBA.com[/QUOTE]
Gobert!
[QUOTE]After the season, Corbin was searching for a new home. Player personnel decisions was not the only thing that got Corbin fired, but it played a role.[/QUOTE]
Did it? I think he was gone the minute Lindsey was named GM.
[QUOTE]Lindsey has taken the vet bat out of new coach Quin Snyder’s hand. The Jazz have 13 players under contract and the average age is 23.4 years. Steve Novak is a fossil at 31 years old. Jeremy Evans and Trevor Booker are 26, the other 10 are 24 years old or less.
“We decided to go extremely young,” said Lindsey.[/QUOTE]
Still 3 spots open and they need some vets no matter how much everyone loves to tank and play guys that aren't ready for prime time. They have a DLeague team to develop young guys. Don't have to play them at the NBA level if they aren't ready.
[QUOTE]Uh, yah ... ya’ think?
Gordon Hayward has worn a Jazz jersey longer than anyone else, and he’s 24 and just finished his fourth season.
The Jazz are destroying the Bucks for the race to the league’s youngest team — Jazz lead 23.4 to the Bucks' 24.2. If the Jazz got rid of Novak they’d have to attach permission slips to their players' per diem.
Lindsey has this freedom because the team owner's have given him great autonomy. They’ve shown patience, spent money and supported drastic change.
It’s a tired storyline, but Enes Kanter, Alec Burks, and Rudy Gobert spent much of last season watching Richard Jefferson, Marvin Williams and even Brandon Rush steal their minutes.[/QUOTE]
Gobert didn't deserve to play. Still might not as much as everyone wants to pencil him in. He's got a lot to prove and the Summer League isn't the place to prove it.
[QUOTE]Lindsey got rid of them and those that were playing them. Something tells me that Coach Q won’t be throwing 30 minutes at elder statesmen Novak (31), Booker (26), and Evans (26).
If he does, Lindsey might just give Snyder a wry smile and say, “I can do this all day.”[/QUOTE]
They gave Booker mid level money to sit at the end of the bench? Novak makes pretty good money for an end of the bench player too. It's where he belongs certainly. At some point you have to look to win games rather it's young guys or vets playing.
Rockets free agent guard Francisco Garcia is considering the Rockets among a group of teams interested in signing him, his agent said on Thursday. Garcia
Jody Genessy: Jazz guard Dante Exum will take a break from the Australian team to participate in the NBA's Rookie Transition Program from Aug. 5-7 in N.J. Twitter @DJJazzyJody
[QUOTE]Patrick Beilein is leaving West Virginia Wesleyan to take a job on coach Quin Snyder's staff with the Utah Jazz, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Beilein, the son of Michigan coach John Beilein, will work under Snyder in a player development and video coordinator role. Snyder plans to utilize Beilein's strengths as a shooting instructor with a young, developing roster. Yahoo! [/QUOTE]
Shooting coach might be the best move of the off-season! Still need DLeague coaches.
[QUOTE]West Virginia Wesleyan coach Patrick Beilein will join Jazz coach Quin Snyder's staff to help with player development and video work, it was confirmed to the Deseret News.
The 31-year-old Beilein is the son of Michigan coach John Beilein, whom Snyder recently complimented while talking about former Wolverine Trey Burke.
"Snyder plans to utilize Beilein's strengths as a shooting instructor with a young, developing roster," wrote Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski, who broke the news Friday afternoon.
Beilein played for his dad in college at West Virginia, helping the Mountaineers reach the Elite Eight, before embarking on a two-year international career. Since then, he's had multiple stops, including as director of basketball operations at Bradley, as an assistant coach at Dartmouth and as a graduate assistant at Michigan.
Utah recently added Lamar Skeeter in a similar position on Snyder's expanding staff.
Since being hired as head coach, Snyder has also hired Brad Jones (lead assistant), Antonio Lang and Alex Jensen as his bench coaches. Johnnie Bryant and Mike Wells round out his player-development staff.
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was the Skeeter hire reported?
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According to the West Australian newspaper, Brock Motum has been invited to training camp by the Utah Jazz.
The trade of Malcolm Thomas and Eric Murphy opened up spots on the training camp roster. However, with Favors, Kanter, Gobert, Booker, Novak and Evans present, finding a spot on the roster is going to be a tough task for Motum.
Motum, born in Brisbane, Australia, is 23 years old and played three seasons at Washington State. He played last season in the Italian League. He will be teaming with Utah
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Dante Exum should get a lot of minutes for Australia in the World Cup of Basketball next month.
The Utah Jazz see the tournament as a great opportunity for their first round pick.
"We
[QUOTE]Emiliano Carchia: Recent NBA draft picks Dante Exum and Cameron Bairstow have been included in the Australia squad to play at the FIBA Basketball World Cup Twitter @sportando [/QUOTE]
Don't get hurt! I assume Motum made it?
As for the occupants of those seats in EnergySolutions Arena, Hayward also feels considerable responsibility to them. But that feeling has more to do with "25-57" than "$63 million." He
[QUOTE]"The amount of [defensive] pressure on the ball is at an all-time high right now," Burke marveled after the first session of camp Monday.
So he
[QUOTE]Millsap is definitely a Snyder advocate. A late addition to this week
Atlanta became a high-assist team last season with Snyder as an assistant coach, "and that
[QUOTE]Back in 2008 the Utah Jazz used one of their second round picks on Croatian bigman Ante Tomic. The young man was supposed to be a Pau Gasol clone, what with his 7 foot stance, soft hands, solid fundamentals, and court vision. For the Utah Jazz he was supposed to be a rotation player by now. It's 2014 and the team has begun talking about using him as an asset in trades[/QUOTE]
He looks like an asset rather they want him or not.
[QUOTE]or some other non-decisive on the record stance. He was drafted back when he played in the Adriatic league, and since that time has gone on to play in the top European league, and pretty much dominate on his way to team and individual awards. While guys like Tadija Dragićević even made it to the states for a closer inspection during summer league (he didn't play in any games though), Tomic has always been an ocean away.
Until this World Cup, I presume.
I don't expect many Utah Jazz fans to watch EuroLeague play, and pay only a little attention to EuroBasket tournaments. But this one, the FIBA world cup, is going to be on all kinds of TV and internet streams. And Tomic, at his peak, is most likely going to be a big part of what Croatia does. (N.B. Croatia is in training camp right now, but I don't assume Tomic will not make the team. But there are no confirmations that he has as of yet.)
Ante is still a 7'1 bigman with soft hands who scores with ease around the basket. Either in isolation, pick and roll, or crashing the glass. It's a skilled passer, even adding very odd looking, but effective, look-away passes to his post repertoire. Even though he has height, he has yet to demonstrate to me that if can be a shot blocker at higher competition levels. Furthermore, I am excited to see how he will deal with beefier guys being physical with him on offense and defense.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the perfect fit for the Jazz. He was too skinny 4 years ago when I watched the FIBA.
[QUOTE]It is a great litmus test, if nothing else, to see how someone like DeMarcus Cousins will fare against Topic, one of the best bigs on the planet who just happens to not be playing in the NBA.
Still, for Jazz fans watching him is going to be a funny feeling. I don't see him coming to Utah anytime soon. The Jazz also don't need him right now as they are focusing on Derrick Favors, Enes Kanter, and Rudy Gobert. And as for a fit beyond on-court structure, off the court I don't see a guy at the top of his game, an MVP candidate, leaving all of his glory to come to Utah and come off the bench for a lotto team.[/QUOTE]
Bring him in and open up the competition. Kanter and Gobert both have lots to prove yet. As does Favors but he has already been paid so he's in.
[QUOTE]He's good. Sometimes he's great. He's "our" guy because we drafted him. It's just going to be hard to cheer for him. If he's going to look good in the World Cup does that make it harder knowing that he's not going to be in a Jazz uniform for a long time, if ever?
It's a bitter sweet meeting this summer. We'll finally get to see our guy up close and personal, but at the end of the summer he's going back home. Will he forget us? Is this just a summer time fling? Or does he "like" like us?
I want him to do well. Croatia will be in Group B, where Argentina (minus Manu Ginobili), Greece, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Senegal await. They should be no lower than third there. So we may get to see him play the USA in later rounds.
Whatever happens it's going to be interesting. It's also going to be awful for Jazz fans to watch without getting mixed feelings. He's good. He has proven that to the world by now. But if he's great . . . that is a kick in the pants.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Jody Genessy: Jazz guard Ian Clark's contract for the 2014-15 season will be guaranteed. The second-year player from Belmont will make about $800,000. The Jazz will have the opportunity to extend a qualifying offer to guard Ian Clark to make him a restricted free agent next offseason.
Twitter @DJJazzyJody [/QUOTE]
Must see something in him.
The Knicks also may still re-sign Toure' Murry. The free agent guard has drawn interest from the Heat, Jazz and Clippers, according to a league source. ESPN.com
David Locke: Some names for Jazz camp possible PG: Byrce Cotton (Providence) Jahii Carson (ASU) Deonte Burton (Nevada) DeAndre Kane (ISU) Aaron Craft Twitter
[QUOTE]Marc Stein: Players staying in as show of support for Paul George. USAB officials, meanwhile, still deliberating on how many players to take to Chicago. Team USA scheduled to resume practice Aug. 13 in CHI. USAB officials now deciding whether to keep 14, 15 or 16 from the 19 players available. USA Basketball still planning to make a few cuts before practices resume in Chicago, but there might be as few as three. Or as many as five. Twitter @ESPNSteinLine[/QUOTE]
G and Millsap didn't do much in the scrimmage but the injury should help them especially G.
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[QUOTE]I don't have any contract info on how long this deal is.[/QUOTE]
Biggest problem I see is a buyout. He didn't have a buyout on his last deal which seems rare.
[QUOTE] I am worried that we're going to eventually get nothing just like the Ante Tomic issue that is on-going. (Y'all know he was drafted the same year as Kosta Koufos right? The Koof is going into his 7th year in the NBA this season.)[/QUOTE]
Koufos was ready to play in the league. Tomic wasn't. Maybe still isn't but they need to do something with him. He's one of the top players not in the league. He has to have value.
[QUOTE]I hope that the plan is still to bring him to the NBA, and more specifically the Utah Jazz. Another year in Spain isn't going to hurt. It will help way more than playing a year in Brazil, or some other league. [/QUOTE]
Maybe? Hard to say. Might get huge minutes in Brazil. Spain he might be on the bench?
[QUOTE]I guess him playing for Murcia will eventually lead to him playing FOR a team in 'Murrica! Right?
We Utah Jazz fans will just have to admire him from afar for at least another year. We support you too Raul Neto, and will be with you during the good times and bad as well! There are just more of us! You are way prettier than Raul Lopez, who honestly, that was just a crush. And we are so-ho over it now.[/QUOTE]
Michael Pointer: Coach K said Gordon Hayward was a strong candidate to get past first cut anyway, but got an even closer look after George's injury. Twitter @michaelpointer
[QUOTE]Even before George broke his leg on the stanchion at Thomas & Mack Arena last Friday, Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward had a chance to make the team that will represent the country in the upcoming World Cup.
But with Coach K now needing guys who can play multiple positions, Hayward
The yearly NBA rookie survery is out
Jazz players showed up in the following manners
Rodney Hood got a vote for Rookie of the Year and a vote for best career
Rodney Hood got a vote for best shooter.
Dante Exum was 4th for best playmaker, behind Tyler Ennis, Kyle Anderson and Marcus Smart
[QUOTE]When looking at their team
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[QUOTE]Booker’s minutes fluctuated in Washington, and he’s the exact sort of player we’re talking about here; he’s listed at just 6-foot-7, and he’s made just one triple in four seasons. Consensus around the league is that the Jazz overpaid a bit, but this is a fine deal. Booker doesn’t do the sexy power forward things the league increasingly expects, but the Jazz are a bad team paying to see if he might be better than the league anticipates.
Booker is a bouncy dude who cuts hard to the rim and has shown flashes, both in college and Washington, of being an effective ball mover. He has a decent stroke, and a team with good player development might invest in teaching Booker the corner 3. In talking to coaches and GMs over the last month, it’s clear we’ll see more teams pushing the corner 3 on bigs — the Chris Bosh–Serge Ibaka route. There could be some surprising names experimenting with the corner 3 as early as this season.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]The Jazz were terrorized on defense when Marvin Williams played power forward, but their offense functioned well enough, and Williams can now put “stretch 4” on his r
Will be interesting to see how the front court shakes out. Sounds like Kanter will be one of the guys shooting the corner 3 which will up his value. I'm sure Evans is working on extending his range. Obviously Novak but to me he's more of a situational guy than a regular rotation guy regardless of his shooting ability.
[QUOTE]they can try to lock Kanter up to an extension that pays him anywhere from $8-12 million
Marc Stein: Hearing Utah Jazz closing in on two-year, $2 million deal free-agent guard Toure Murry, who had also been chased by Heat & incumbent Knicks Twitter
a bunch of stuff disappeared
Jody Genessy: Toure Murry's agent, Bernie Lee, said the report of an imminent deal with the Jazz is "news to him." He had no further comment. Twitter @DJJazzyJody
[QUOTE]he Utah Jazz Jazz have named Dean Cooper as Head Coach of the Idaho Stampede.
Cooper spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets.
[QUOTE]Gino Pilato: Two Idaho Stampede players from a season ago will take part in Utah Jazz training camp, Kevin Murphy and Dee Bost. Twitter @DleagueDigest[/QUOTE]
I think Murphy was one of the better players in the D-league last year. He has some scoring ability. He might have a shot. I believe they've had Bost in camp before too ?
[QUOTE]Gino Pilato: Two Idaho Stampede players from a season ago will take part in Utah Jazz training camp, Kevin Murphy and Dee Bost. Twitter @DleagueDigest [/QUOTE]
He's certainly looking bigger. Might be able to play him at some 4?
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[QUOTE]The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed free-agent guard Dee Bost. Per team policy, financial terms were not released. NBA.com [/QUOTE]
Doesn't shoot well. Looks like he does some other things though.
[QUOTE]Jody Genessy: Guard Dee Bost's deal with Jazz/Stampede is worth $65,000, per sources. He'll attend Jazz camp but will likely play in D-League for Idaho. Twitter @DJJazzyJody
Eric Pincus: The Utah Jazz signed Dee Bost to a 3-yr $2.35 mil contract - 1st season $65k guaranteed - rest non @BBallInsiders Twitter @EricPincus[/QUOTE]
He'll likely make the team until contracts become guaranteed at least I'd think. They got their vet I guess. All of 25!
I wonder if the Jazz are looking to sign him or Murray still? They have 13 guaranteed contracts and the partial for Bost. Probably like to have some flexibility.
[QUOTE]With the Jazz already having guards Alec Burks, Trey Burke, Dante Exum and Ian Clark on the roster as well as guard-forwards Gordon Hayward and Rodney Hood, Bost may have a difficult time making the team.[/QUOTE]
Burks and Exum could be playing some 3 so there's room for him.
[QUOTE]He could end up playing again for Idaho, which is the D-League affiliate for the Jazz, if he doesn’t make the roster after training camp.
Bost was an D-League all-star last year when he averaged 15.2 points, 8.4 assists, 6.1 rebounds and 2.1 steals for Idaho. He scored in double figures in 41 of 50 games and also registered five triple-doubles and 10 double-doubles.
At Mississippi State, Bost played with Jazz first-round draft choice Rodney Hood in 2009-10 when Hood made the SEC all-freshman team. That year Bost averaged 13.0 points per game and was named second-team all-SEC, while Hood averaged 10.3 points per game.[/QUOTE]
Interesting. Wonder if that has anything to do with the signing?
[QUOTE]Before playing for Idaho last year, the 24-year-old Bost attended training camp with the Portland Trail Blazers. He spent the 2012-13 season with Budućnost Podgorica of Montenegro, where he appeared in 54 games (44 starts) and averaged 8.3 points, 1.8 assists and 3.0 rebounds in 21.5 minutes per game.
Bost is a native of Charlotte, N.C., and besides playing at Concord High School in Concord, N.C., he played one season at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Va., helping lead the team to a perfect 29-0 record and the 2008 National Prep Championship.[/QUOTE]