Jazz Need Complimentary Players- Not Superstars

After an impressive 06-07 season, the Utah Jazz will seemingly be better next year by just having experience under their belts of playing in the Western Conference Finals. However; things have been shaken up a little by the departure of Derek Fisher for personal family reasons. Derek Fisher was a hard player to accept being a Jazzman, having seen him kill the Jazz in the many years that he played as a Laker, but it only took one game for me to swing my opinion of him. Fisher had a great court presence and did more in leadership and controlling the tempo of games, which does not appear on his stat sheet. He made one of the greatest appearances in the Conference Semi-Finals game against the Warriors when he flew in from his sick daughter's surgery during the 3rd quarter and came straight out on the court to change the game and make some huge shots in overtime. With Fisher now gone the Jazz need a leader, they need a veteran. Rumors have been swirling over Morris Peterson of the Raptors signing with the Jazz. He's a perfect fit, a good shooter that's a veteran and a winner. Not with the Raptors, but with Michigan State in college. Speaking of the Raptors, anyone else still perplexed that Sam Mitchell won coach of the year last year? Should the Jazz sign Peterson, they also need to look for a big man. Let's all face it, Mehmet Okur is not a post player. Deron Williams and Matt Harpring are better post players then Memo. Memo is capable of defending the post, but it wears him out and affects his offense on the other end rendering him as useless as Kirilenko. If Larry Miller was smart, he would get rid of players like Andrei Kirilenko and Gordan Giricek that feel uncomfortable being a complimentary player. Just as the Jazz of old were built around Stockton and Malone, the Jazz of now need to be built around Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer. Any player not willing to do that will be a poison to the team chemistry and needs a swift kick out of the Jazz door.