Comments on: What To Do With Jax?

By: 13th Warrior Poster | The OriginalUnOriginal.Com

13th Warrior Poster | The OriginalUnOriginal.Com — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:20:36 +0000

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By: Insideman 29

Insideman 29 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:30:22 +0000

MT,
couldnt help but to comment on this one. Stak Jack has a plan. Its all about the buyout. He knows that if he acts a fool, they wont have a choice but to buy him out. We know there are no teams that want to take a 35m contract for a 31 year old party animal. I know he got married this summer, but he still has that Baron syndrone, potty all the time! In looking at the contracts around the league, who wants him?? he says teams are interested, but what teams? In the NBA, contracts are traded, not players. What contracts are out there that can be traded, that’s the question!

By: mike j

mike j — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:51:22 +0000

Jackson has shown his true colors again. And I am sick of these ignorant, classless, bum “jocks”! No, make him play and expect him to play whatever role you ask. That is what he is paid to do. Remember?

And when he revolts like a 16 yo girl, suspend him without pay for conduct detrimental to the team. If he doesn’t like it, then he can simply leave and forfeit his salary if it’s so bad here. I mean there are countless other more worthwhile projects for him to undertake with all of his inherent intellect, work ethic, and ingenuity. Right? Oh, thought not.

By: oaktownlar

oaktownlar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:09:10 +0000

#16 Jack suggests a 4th option: Dubs and Jax cancel the extension. Marcus: Is that even possible? I think maybe there is a restriction in the Player Agreement?

If possible, that would be OK with me. #22 Petaluman is right–there is no way any other team makes a trade, let alone one with any value to the Dubs. Plus, if the crybaby is accomodated (as Harrington was), then ME would quite logically be next on the “I want to be traded” list.

By: Taydatay

Taydatay — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:07:20 +0000

Send Jack home with a buyout offer of the remainder of this year’s salary. Like #16 said, it would cancel out his extension. If he wants to sit eat the money, treat it like an injured player and bite the bullet. If Jack wants out so bad, he’ll take it. Or maybe teams jockeying at the trading deadline throw us an expiring and a draft pick. And if nothing goes down, offer Jack the same deal next year.

It’s high time someone called bluff on an player. As much as I despise the Warriors management, players cannot be allowed to pull this crap, both as a precedent and as a matter of honor.

And we CANNOT have this wild cannon around the youngsters. He will ruin them.

By: petaluman

petaluman — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:34:42 +0000

Marcus,

Could you please remind Jackson, from us, that out here in the real world, people are losing their jobs and houses. In schools across the state, we’re taking 10-12% pay cuts, and are happy we weren’t laid off. That’s “manning up”, not shooting off your mouth and then complaining about being fined 2% of a salary most of us couldn’t even imagine.

The young Stephen Jackson spent years knocking about in a variety of leagues before making it to the NBA. We all know there’s a better man in there than we’re seeing right now. I understand he feels betrayed by management. Please ask him to remember that he’s playing for his teammates and us, too. We want his support, and he’s dissing us.

By: petaluman

petaluman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:46:58 +0000

For those who don’t understand the CBA, Jackson can’t be traded for rocks or refreshments, or even “anyone”. A below-cap team could, but those teams are only looking for bargains. SJ is not a bargain.

For any other team to take him, they have to approximately match his annual salary (+/- 25% and change). That means roughly 6-9M/year for just him.

Take a look at the rosters for his chosen 5, and play GM. Is there any combination of salaries you’d trade to have SJ on your team?

For a team not on his list of 5, the question is “gamble 35M that he won’t blow up here?”. Right now, the answer seems likely to be “no” for all 24 of them.

By: Jellymore

Jellymore — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:40:50 +0000

How about calling out the man who promised Jackson he would sign the free agents needed to make the team better, when he is not someone who is able to deliver on such a promise. Robert Rowell must go. He is a business man (a poor one) not a basketball man. Chris Mullin brought the Warriors back to respectability and Rowell has single-handedly destroyed everything Mullin built. Stephen Jackson’s fault was believing the lies Rowell continues to spew. I AM a little tired of athlete’s who want to be traded to a winner rather than doing their job and making the team they are on a winner, especially with the money they’ve accepted to do that.

By: commish

commish — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:19:06 +0000

Jackson is not going to change his stripes and ever be able to control his negative emotions for any lenght of time. It is only a matter of time before they have to move him; or, another option not put forward is let him blow up and let the league suspend him for a significant amount of time. We know Stern would do that in a hot minute.

Jax will destroy the team and whatever little chemistry it has. Not only that, if they let him return to form, he will impede the offense which clearly so far looks a lot better with him OFF the floor. For most competitive teams he, like Maggette, would make a great sixth man who can defend and score. His days as a team leader and “star” level player left when Baron departed. He has value, but we should not expect to get much for him. Dump his ass off the Warriors. We sure don’t need him infecting the team, especially Monta who already seems to want to be “the man” regardless of how badly he is playing or impeding the team. Just read Adam’s blog from last night about the second half of the Clippers game.

By: Dan Oliver

Dan Oliver — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:13:10 +0000

Trade Jackson for a box of rocks and a half eaten glazed donut and be done with it! I’m so tired of this crap!! SJax should LOVE the Warriors for giving him the opportunity to resurrect his career. By allowing him the freedom to huck up bad shot after bad shot he has been able to put up good looking stats. However, EVERY SINGLE TIME he doesn’t get a call on one end you can bet he’ll pout all the way down the court whining to the officials through the next possession at least. You can be just as sure that he’ll force it the next time he touches the ball with a gauranteed turnover waiting to happen.
Look, Jackson has played hard since he’s been here and is in great shape, so I don’t want to take that away from him, but he was not the main cog in the trade that got him shipped here to begin with. He was as good for the W’s as the W’s were for him, but it’s over now. He’s right in that we are young, and we NEED to allow our young guys to play together, mature together and they won’t do that with Jackson taking up 38 minutes a night playing out of position for most of those minutes.
We WILL NOT get value for him, so give him away and turn the page. We’re used to giving away good players for nothing anyway. And while we’re at it, let’s talk Nellie into retiring. Enough with the clown show already Nellie. You’re the Billy Martin of Basketball….quick infusion of energy and results, followed by destruction.