Jazz not necessarily eager to make a trade
GM O'Connor has 'no idea' if team will make trade
"On a scale of one to 10, I have no idea," said the man who has the best idea about the Jazz of anyone, senior vice president of basketball operations Kevin O'Connor.
He said he's not going to make a deal that's just reactionary to what others have done.
"I think you make a mistake in trying to keep up with the Joneses. What you do is try and improve your team, and if you can do something that does that, we would look to do it. If it doesn't, then we're not going to do something.
"Are we afraid to make a deal? No, we're not afraid to make a deal if it improves our team. Are we going to have conversations? Sure, everyone does it at this time of the year," he said, not divulging if there's anything serious in the works.
One thing he said he won't do is sit back and think his work is done after acquiring spacing-maker Korver, whose deadly shot helps open up the interior game for Carlos Boozer and Deron Williams.
Post defense is seen as Utah's biggest need now, but O'Connor noted that all 30 teams would probably like to get better at the same thing.
QUIET: Jazz owner Larry Miller said on television Sunday night that he had not heard of any possibilities for a trade, and coach Jerry Sloan said Monday night he hadn't either.
"I haven't heard anything," said Sloan. "Yeah, I probably would be surprised if we did anything. Really, we're not out looking to make trades very often unless somebody offers us something we think is good for our organization."
Miller and Sloan are honest, but also O'Connor doesn't trouble owner and coach with trade talk until it's serious. "We've got a roster spot," he reminded. Utah has 14 players under contract.
Though Korver's only been here six weeks, he would also be surprised. "We feel like we have a team we don't need to mess with, we feel like we're good where we're at," he said. "We'll see if (the expected Dallas/Kidd trade) makes another trade happen (for Utah), but we feel like if we don't, we have a team that's very capable of being in there."
HEAD GAMES: Sloan doesn't let his players wear headbands, and he didn't watch any of the All-Star festivities on TV from his offseason home in McLeansboro, Ill., but he heard about Ronnie Brewer wearing a headband in the Rookie-Sophomore game Friday night.
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