Jefferson Vs. Boozer (Not too clever a title)

Yeah, but isn't a comparison of Richard Jefferson and Devin Harris's girlfriends better to look at?

So pretty much everyone on the internet that writes about this kind of stuff has done a comparison between former Jazz power forward Carlos Boozer and PF to be Al Jefferson, although not actually a trade it was affectively one in how it turned out.  So I’m going to jump right on the bandwagon and and give my two cents on this.
It’s kind of hard to compare their recent numbers due to Al’s knee injury, which is affectively a two year injury as we all know now, so we can dismiss last years numbers completely.  If he is back at full strength for this season he should be a wash with Boozer offensively if they were on their respective squads.  The thing is they are not, Jefferson has been essentially a post up player that had the ball dumped into him while Boozer has the Williams run Jerry Sloan pick and roll.  I think with Jefferson running the Utah offense his numbers should improve, he’s taller and he’s hands seem as good so there is no reason to think that he doesn’t pick up a couple more baskets with actual plays being run for him.
Now on to rebounding, something else that he has had almost identical numbers to Boozer on.  I would think that this could improve too, with a couple other big men in there to box out, namely Utah’s too remaining centers I think this can only help.  Jefferson is also tall enough to play more of a center position if you run him with Okur playing a 6-11 shooting forward kind of thing, or put Fez in and go really big in the hopes of matching the Lakers, something Boozer and a younger Fez could not do.
But this brings up his defense, it’s hard to say if he is just as bad as Boozer or actually worse.  His knee could have been causing some defensive lapses, but really it’s hard to say.  He also had no help in the middle up in Minnesota, so maybe paired with some other bigs, a good coach and an actual defensive system he could improve.  I think this is an area where the Jazz have the best chance of improving Jefferson’s game, with Williams and Bell committed to defense I would like to see it rub off on the other players, especially the bigs.
And finally the intangibles, which Monson in his article over at the Salt Lake Trib touched on, attitude, which can be a little over rated.  But in this case where Williams on many nights seemed to be alone out there trying to win having his much bigger Robin actually care about playing for this team is only an improvement.  Jefferson has been more excited to come to Utah than anyone I can remember and this should bring out the best in him.  Besides that he doesn’t have any stupid tattoos, deodorant stains under his arms, crazy ass wife or house that he rented to Prince (although thanks to his last stop over maybe a Prince connection is in the works).
Best of all his contract is less, for a shorter period, which is important with the new CBA and potential lock out as I’ve said many times and he is 3 years younger and barely behind Boozer.  Also he has only had one injury, not a string of them keeping him out almost 25% of the time.  Finally to get him the Jazz had to give up Kosta, which is great for my friend Zander because all the Greek chicks in Salt Lake were swooning over him and poor Zander had no game.