No way any ownership is going to pass on a guard of Terry's calibre for that cheap a price. He shoots something like 43% from the field for 17 pts a game *and* dishes out 7 dimes a game. In the reality of NBA salaries, 7 mil per year for that is a great price.
Besides the fact that Terry shoots better than Mobley, makes better decisions and passes the ball much better, there's practically no difference
SAR seems to be the forgotten man now ever since he left the Grizzlies. He has his 20/10 deal still, but he's just not known much anymore with all the other PFs emerging in the league IMO.
So are you saying it is a 3-year, $21 million deal? I haven't seen terms disclosed elsewhere. At that price, I would definitely match.
If this goes through, talk about a drop off... "Jason Terry to Keon Clark"...that just doesn't sound right...
Terry makes better decisions? Could have fooled me! One of the Hawks fans biggest beefs is the bad decisions Terry makes. That's why they moved the guy to 2-guard. He doesn't pass anymore either, he's basically Iverson with a better shot.
<b>I'd swap Jason Terry and SAR for Francis and Rice.</b> Why? Terry isn't even in the same category as Francis. I would love to find a way toget Rahim though.
FF - "Everyone" here should know Terry is a restricted FA and consequently it is only an offer sheet from Utah that Terry has signed? I'm sorry, but maybe I'm jaded. I have read too many trade threads to think that this is base knowledge here.
Gater the real purpose of that post was to obliquely address those who found the title insufficient. If the title is grossly inaccurate, I can understand, but we have guys getting mad because someone didn't give enough info IN THE TITLE. I don't understand why people do that. I agree that most don't know how it works, and I was being a little bit of a prick on that issue.
FF- Not to sound like an ass or anything, but yes, I do remember that Jason Terry was a RFA. However, when I read the title of the thread, that little tidbit just happened to slip my mind. I was thinking, "Finally the Jazz made a move!" and clicked on the link. When I saw that it was only an offer sheet, I realized that he was an RFA, thus he could only sign the offer sheet. That being said, I know I used the face in my post, but that was just facetiousness on my part. I'm sorry if it came across wrong to anyone else on the board.
http://www.ajc.com/saturday/content...?urac=n&urvf=10634571232270.21560656174956516 PRO BASKETBALL: Head-scratching Hawks 'in total limbo' Michael Lee - Staff Saturday, September 13, 2003 Not long after completing a workout in the Hawks' practice facility this week, Shareef Abdur-Rahim stood in front of his locker and boasted about a certain Atlanta team with a bird nickname. "You see those Falcons Sunday?" Abdur-Rahim said of his hometown football team. "Yeah, we just need Doug Johnson to go 2-1, then he can hand it over to Mike Vick and we'll be all right." Clearly, Abdur-Rahim has caught Falcons fever. However, even before Jason Terry signed an offer sheet with Utah, it was difficult for Abdur-Rahim or any of his teammates to have anything more than a guarded optimism about another feathered franchise in this city because, as center Theo Ratliff said, "You're in total limbo." This summer, the Hawks have gone from being in limbo to actually doing the limbo, as in: How Low Can You Go? Less than three weeks before training camp, they have just nine players under contract --- 10, if you count the Hawks possibly matching Utah's offer for Terry. The biggest (and only) free agent catch this offseason has been backup point guard Jacque Vaughn --- but the Hawks still haven't signed players to fill the holes at small forward or shooting guard. And the sale of the team remains in a holding pattern. "It's been kind of a funny summer," said Abdur-Rahim, who had back surgery in July and is expected to complete his rehab before the end of the month. "There's been a lot up in the air. Will ownership change? What players are coming in? Here it is, the middle of September, and we don't know who our starting five is," reserve forward Alan Henderson said. "There are a lot of questions, but that's life in the NBA." The uncertainty hasn't kept Abdur-Rahim, Ratliff, Henderson and Chris Crawford from coming to Philips Arena regularly to stay in shape and prepare for the season. The scene is a stark contrast to last year, when --- under what proved to be the false hope and promise of a playoff guarantee --- the Hawks had eight or nine players turning up for voluntary workouts. The sizable turnout stunned then-newcomer Glenn Robinson. But Robinson is gone --- replaced by Terrell Brandon's contract --- and the roster is unsettled at a time when most teams around the league are devising game plans and making minor tweaks. "Nobody knows what's going on," Ratliff said with an uncomfortable chuckle. "You got two starters --- and one of them [Abdur-Rahim] is not even on the court yet. Basically it's me. To me that's a big issue. That's crazy. "So you have to keep a positive attitude and keep going. But you'd think by now you'd have some kind of clarity." Roster issues should begin to clear up next week, when general manager Billy Knight returns from Sweden, where he has been watching the European Championship and first-round pick Boris Diaw, who is competing for France. Hawks coach Terry Stotts said he has been arranging defensive schemes but can't work out the offense until all of the pieces are in place. He's like a chef with missing ingredients but says, "I want to put a good meal out there." "From my position, to Billy not knowing, to the sale and not having a full roster --- we've had to be really patient this summer," Stotts said. "It's tough right now to look ahead. Our goal is to improve on last year. Our goal is to make the playoffs. Right now, it's a gut feeling that things are going to work out well." Said Adbur-Rahim, "Nobody is talking about us, or expecting much out of us, but that's fine. It might better for the group of guys that we've got that we come into a season with less anticipation because last year, we carried ourselves kind of like a playoff team --- or like we had done something already --- when we hadn't done anything." Plenty of work remains before Sept. 30.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1613972 The Haws are going to match, according to ESPN. ...anything that makes the Jazz suck more is fine by me....
