Boozer is 6'9".

Posted by purple012870:

Boozer is 6'9".

Jazz list him as 6'8". He's 6'8" the way Sweetney is 6'8".

http://www.nba.com/jazz/roster/

Posted by Bonn1997:

I'd love this. We get a very good player AND move up in the draft. Then you obviously have to pull off a couple of Weatherspoon for Norris type of deals to balance out the roster.
Boozer's a good player. The Jazz just can't afford to pay him that kind of money unless he's going to be better than 20/10
I'd love to see the Knicks use their expiring contracts to add Boozer and Gasol. (Realistically, Gasol would be something like TT plus the lottery pick plus pick #30 for pick #19).

[Edited by - Bonn1997 on 06/13/2005 12:20:08]

I don't think Boozer is too much of an upgrade from Sweetney. More athletic, sure. but look at their per 48 minutes stats. almost identical. I was very unimpressed by Boozer this year. I think that contract would be awful...

Posted by crzymdups:

Posted by Bonn1997:

I'd love this. We get a very good player AND move up in the draft. Then you obviously have to pull off a couple of Weatherspoon for Norris type of deals to balance out the roster.
Boozer's a good player. The Jazz just can't afford to pay him that kind of money unless he's going to be better than 20/10
I'd love to see the Knicks use their expiring contracts to add Boozer and Gasol. (Realistically, Gasol would be something like TT plus the lottery pick plus pick #30 for pick #19).

[Edited by - Bonn1997 on 06/13/2005 12:20:08]

I don't think Boozer is too much of an upgrade from Sweetney. More athletic, sure. but look at their per 48 minutes stats. almost identical. I was very unimpressed by Boozer this year. I think that contract would be awful...

I'm not too much of a fan of per48 stats. I don't think Sweetney could last 30 mpg without a decline in his performance because of his weight. Sweetney also gives up a far higher FG%. Boozer played injured this year. Last year, he averaged over 11 RPG. He's a lot quicker than Sweetney and he has a better post game. There's no reason to make this a Sweetney vs. Boozer thread, though. I'd gladly keep both players and trade Kurt and JYD. Then you have 4 PFs like we had at the start of last season (which no one complained about back then). Sweetney can get minutes off the bench if he earns them; a good start would be getting in shape.

[Edited by - Bonn1997 on 06/13/2005 12:28:41]

let's not rebuild by taking on enormous contracts for players we don't particularly need. i'm hoping this rumor is just what it sounds like- some random writer's speculation.

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by purple012870:

Boozer is also a solid 270 lbs. .....as opposed to the way Sweetney achieves that weight.

Also, Sweetney is 6'8" the way Othella Harrington is 6'8"....in other words, not even close.

You're right that they have very different bodies. Boozer's a chiseled 270 with probably 9% body fat. Sweetney's a heavy 270 with probably 18% body fat.

yeah, Boozer is definitely the better player. But with the way our cap is, is he really $50 million better? I don't know. I feel like we have more pressing needs than another undersized PF.

good point, he is not 50 million better if we picked up frye or bynum. Basically a hungrier version of him.

When is the effing draft...I'm losing my mind.

THey were right about these finals, I fell asleep at halftime.

I am tired of bailing teams out of their mistakes, no one bails us out of our messes. Boozer and the Jazz stuck it to the cavs, now the jazz want to dump the Boozer experiment, I say let Utah keep him, and eat that 50 mil...

this is where the mo taylor trade makes no sense.

now I would consider this trade, why the f not? i mean we move up in the draft and give up TT for Boozer?

but the problem is we have so many PF's, we have PFs up the ying yang

nevertheless I think isiah is going to try to use those expiring contracts and maybe Boozer is the best player they can get, i mean it truly is plausible.

Getting Granger and Boozer would be on paper an upgrade in talent. We can talk about what Mike might do over 30 minutes or Taylor or Malik, but Boozer has already proven it. He is a tad over rated but much more of a rugged player than a Rahim who is also a 20-10 player
Boozer was a beast in the east, I would do this trade, but I would also look into moving malik and Sweetney for a C then--maybe a S+T with Washington for Kwame Brown?