"BIG" Al Jefferson

[ockingsfan]

I can see Petrie making a trade for a veteran big man, instead of overpaying for Dalembert or the other free agents centers on the market... Al Jefferson was a 20-10 player before a knee injury and has started to regain his form last year, averaging almost 19-10 in 82 games... he has been rumored on the trading block to save Utah money and open up playing time for derrick favors....

The kings could trade Jason Thompson and Fransisco Garcia and cap space for Al Jefferson... the kings would get a scoring and rebounding machine to start along side Cousins.... The Jazz would save about 14.1 million in Salary over 2 years and free up the starting PF spot for Favors, while also getting a serviceable swingman in garcia to replace an aging raja bell...

Jefferson has a big contract at 14mil and 15mil, but would be on the books for only two years... as opposed to Dalembert or Chandler who would want 4-5 years.... and when tyreke and cousins come due for their big contracts in 2-3 years, he will be off the books, if they don't want to resign him....

the kings need to get to the minimum payroll and they want to preserve some flexibility in a couple of years to resign their stud players....

plus jefferson is only 26 years old, so if he does work out, the kings would have their big three of tyreke, cousins, and jefferson....

the Kings line up would look like this:

PF Al Jefferson / Hickson
SF John Salmons / Greene / Honeycutt
C DeMarcus Cousins / Whiteside
SG Marcus Thornton / Fredette
PG Tyreke Evans / Thomas

 

[Bricklayer]

Really really not needed on our team as currently constructed, especially not if it costs us a whole swath of our vet roleplayer types -- in this case Dalembert, Thompson and Garcia.

We've already got too many scorers and not enough shots to go around. Reke, Thornton, and Cousisn are all going to want to score 20ppg. Their hasn't been a team in 25 years that had 3 20pt scorers. Now you are suggesting adding a 4th guy who wants to score 20 as well. And that's not counting Salmons, Hickson and Jimmer who also all want to shoot.

The acquisitions of Cousins and Thornton and Hickson and Jimmer all in the last year have really swung our needs around from where they were a couple of years ago.

 

[Sac.1989]

Yep. Cousins is our scoring big man. You dont need another scorer in there. The role of that player next to boogie needs to be defensive and oriented towards the needs of the team

 

[Tetsujin]

Really really not needed on our team as currently constructed, especially not if it costs us a whole swath of our vet roleplayer types -- in this case Dalembert, Thompson and Garcia.

We've already got too many scorers and not enough shots to go around. Reke, Thornton, and Cousisn are all going to want to score 20ppg. Their hasn't been a team in 25 years that had 3 20pt scorers. Now you are suggesting adding a 4th guy who wants to score 20 as well. And that's not counting Salmons, Hickson and Jimmer who also all want to shoot.

The acquisitions of Cousins and Thornton and Hickson and Jimmer all in the last year have really swung our needs around from where they were a couple of years ago.

Didn't you hear? One of the stipulations of the new CBA was the addition of a second ball.

 

[Vlade4GM]

How many go-arounds does Jefferson need before people realize he puts up empty stats?