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Kingjames i like Boozer a hell of a lot. He is a warrior and a great pure power forward. If i had the chance to keep him and add a center at the expence of Okur i would but the reality is that Okur is going no-where and Boozers bags are all but packed for miami.

Would Dallas like Boozer on the same team as Dirk? I guess you could use Boozer to guard the 5 but your never going to be a contender if you cant defend the paint...

I just get frustrated with Utah i suppose. I have watched this team play without a center for 20 seasons. You can't win a championship without solid interior D, usually in the form of a 7 footer with muscle.

It would take guts to deal Boozer for sure, but they will not win while Okur and Boozer are the main men down low, so whats the point in keeping them together?

I'm looking at it from the standpoint that Boozer is gonna walk and leave the jazz with nothing end of this season. I don't care what he says to the media or his teamates, he probably said the same things to the cavs organisation and players, fact is his family are not happy in Utah- tha altitude harming his sick daughter, they have a house in miami and are dead keen to leave.

Rather than get nothing, we get a young big man who has great potential in my opinion, and Dun who could easily become our starting sf. Harp is getting older, AK will play off the bench at the 3 or 4, guys like Korver and Almond can be shopped. I think its an upgrade for the team as a whole.

Starters-
William
Brewer
Dunleavey
Okur
Hibbert

Bench; Price, Miles, AK, Harp, Korv, Milsap.

Kosta is a long term project,
Tomic will never play, fesenko is as good as gone.

Re Boozer- I'd be happy with a deal involving maybe Hibbert from the pacers along with Dunleavey...

Its a real catch 22 with iverson. He seems like the perfect candidate for running with the bench team and keeping the scoring ticking while surrounded by a defensive second unit. The problem is that he relies on putting up a lot of shots and playing a lot of minutes to get into a rythme. You can't have both.

Stuck needs to be starting though imo.

If Boozer was to get traded; you would have to look at a 2-1 or 3-1 man trade. He's the "Pau Gasol" equivalent for the club in regards to trading material.

Ak-47 basically sums up the pointlessness of trading him BUT theoretically I doubt he would move to Charlotte; for Boozer, you would probably expect him to go to a high profile team; like being traded to NO for David West or something along those lines (that would never happen).

AI on the other hand appears to have died in the arse over the past few games. Maybe he needs to do a Ginobli or a Barbosa and come off the bench. I'd be expecting Iverson to be scoring and nothing else. Detroit may have been better off trading Rip Hamilton for him instead because Iverson doesn't work that well at the 1 spot IMO.

Are you kidding Quagmire? Who was it that carried the Jazz when Okur, Harpring,Williams, Kirilenko and Korver all missed games? Boozer. While i do agree Okur could put up similar scoring numbers he is not the menace that Boozer is on the block.

Separate Boozer and Williams? IMO i think that if the Jazz were to trade Boozer for Okafor they would slip out of the play offs.

The Jazz are outrebounding their opponents by 3, getting less that 1 block a game than the opposition, stealing the ball from their opposition more than twice and holding them too 95.6 points a game.

Defence seems to be going nicely if you ask me....

I'd be willing to sacrifice the extra points Boozer scores for the D that Okafor would bring. I really think scoring is not an issue for the jazz, Okur would make up the difference, its the interior D. Look at what Okafor did to Al Jeff in todays game.
Boozer is the better player for sure, but i think maybe Okafor is the better fit for the jazz.

how cool would it be to have a vetrans game on before the sixers with some old time plyers running around for example watching al green for the sixers going head to head with "the pearl" from the wildcats but only playing the games once a month(to allow for recovery and injuries other match ups could be sengstock v's davis,smyth v's carfino and more.
what do you think and what match ups would you like.