Trade Discussion Thread 2: DRAGIC/PICK FOR BROOKS Page 21

[NiGhtWiSh]

I understand your deep emotions, but still, i don't understand your point of vue. Suns acquired a star, not only in comparaison with Dragić, trading an average player an protected pick in a very weak draft.

I don't know what do you guys wanted in exchange for crap like Childress, old dog Carter or limited players like Dragić, Warrick. Melo? LeBron? Kobe? Griffin? Arrrrgh.

You better go sleep, my good friends. Tomorrow the Sun will rise. We are heading to playoffs. The future is bright. You will see. Have more FAITH.

[Kerrsed]

Hey guys, i just woke up, any new trades/info that i missed?

[thamadkant]

I had high hopes for Goran, but he did very little this year. To me his free-throw shooting affected his desire to drive like he used to do. That in turn changed his game and his ability to be a true weapon. I am not saying Brooks can be that weapon, but it seems like the FO is just band aiding the bigger problem. We trade LB, only to find we needed his offense from the bench, and we let Lou go, only to find we needed his hustle to spark the team. We trade Goran to get a guy like LB with worse shooting. The pick is the hardest pill to swallow. If it was a second rounder, maybe not bad, or if we had traded the ORL pick and grabbed their second, even better.

when barbosa was on the Suns, he stagnated the OFFENSE, outside of him trying to get his points...
Suns fans cried and wanted him out....

barbosa became Turkoglu...

Turk didnt fit in so Suns fans cried... and wanted him out..

Turk became Gortat....

Gortat had issues at the start, but has since become a double double guy... Suns cried.. but now are happy...Suns found their ideal BIG man next to Stoudemire... shame Stoudemire is not on the team anymore...

In essence.. Barbosa became Gortat.... so I don't regret that trade... Suns needed more rebounding and size than scoring and ball hogging.

[SUN]

Hey guys, i just woke up, any new trades/info that i missed?

Brooks for Dragic.

[Nando88]

Hey guys, i just woke up, any new trades/info that i missed?

[Calvin Klein]

We play Houston twice next month. Gonna be interesting.

[blackjays1]

I don't have a problem with the trade, AB is the slimmest of an upgrade over Dragic and the pick is lotto protected.

What i do have a problem with is that we didn't do anything to improve. **** we couldn't even get Chuck Hayes from them? Maybe they're looking at Troy Murphy i dunno.

[b-ball forever]

For the other trades :

-Bobcats got ROBBED, we coulda put a much better offer on the table then that for Crash.

-Why the hell does Memphis trade Thabeet and a pick for Battier? Hasheem sucks for now but they're not going anywhere this season and don't need Battier.

-Boston planning on playing KG @ center now? Shouldn't have given up Perkins.

[Kerrsed]

I shopped Brooks into a Suns jersey:

[NiGhtWiSh]

I shopped Brooks into a Suns jersey:

Suuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnntastic

[Traxxe]

Just got back from a meeting. This decision was not in the works when I left at 12 CST. The first is lottery protected. Will swap to the Orlando pick if we miss the playoffs. Brooks wanted out and Houston contacted us. Dragic didn't step on glass and that's all I'll say about that.

This was a smart move. We intend to trade Nash before/during the draft and will deal lopez possibly as well. We also will bundle whatever first we have. We want to get into the low lotter and want about 10-12 to grab Jimmy.

Nash wants one last run with the Suns. He asked to be traded. His statement is BS. His agent made known his wishes and when Nash said he didn't talk to his agent, that was BS. It's something agents do. They take the heat for things like this and when the player says 'I didn't say that' it's the agents job to save them face and swallow it.

Nash will take us into the playoffs. We have two point guards we want in this draft. Aaron will hold the fort until they are ready to take over. We want a top ten pick for nash, our pick, and maybe Lopez. Then we will get a big with that.

[RaisingArizona]

Just got back from a meeting. This decision was not in the works when I left at 12 CST. The first is lottery protected. Will swap to the Orlando pick if we miss the playoffs. Brooks wanted out and Houston contacted us. Dragic didn't step on glass and that's all I'll say about that.

This was a smart move. We intend to trade Nash before/during the draft and will deal lopez possibly as well. We also will bundle whatever first we have. We want to get into the low lotter and want about 10-12 to grab Jimmy.

Nash wants one last run with the Suns. He asked to be traded. His statement is BS. His agent made known his wishes and when Nash said he didn't talk to his agent, that was BS. It's something agents do. They take the heat for things like this and when the player says 'I didn't say that' it's the agents job to save them face and swallow it.

Nash will take us into the playoffs. We have two point guards we want in this draft. Aaron will hold the fort until they are ready to take over. We want a top ten pick for nash, our pick, and maybe Lopez. Then we will get a big with that.

So we plan on keeping Brooks. Funny that Dragic didn't step on glass. Wonder what's up with that. Maybe he had the Matt Leinart syndrome.

[Traxxe]

Eh. Well, let me back that up. Glass was in his foot. But it wasn't just an accident. He was being an utter idiot.

[Kerrsed]

Just got back from a meeting. This decision was not in the works when I left at 12 CST. The first is lottery protected. Will swap to the Orlando pick if we miss the playoffs. Brooks wanted out and Houston contacted us. Dragic didn't step on glass and that's all I'll say about that.

This was a smart move. We intend to trade Nash before/during the draft and will deal lopez possibly as well. We also will bundle whatever first we have. We want to get into the low lotter and want about 10-12 to grab Jimmy.

Nash wants one last run with the Suns. He asked to be traded. His statement is BS. His agent made known his wishes and when Nash said he didn't talk to his agent, that was BS. It's something agents do. They take the heat for things like this and when the player says 'I didn't say that' it's the agents job to save them face and swallow it.

Nash will take us into the playoffs. We have two point guards we want in this draft. Aaron will hold the fort until they are ready to take over. We want a top ten pick for nash, our pick, and maybe Lopez. Then we will get a big with that.

Great info as always!

[RaisingArizona]

Eh. Well, let me back that up. Glass was in his foot. But it wasn't just an accident. He was being an utter idiot.

Confirm or deny.

[Revived]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H08QlVTu ... ded#at=310

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBpt2ZaK ... r_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv_KbQ_zdrk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK48su79 ... re=related

[RocPHX]

Brooks is a definite, definite, upgrade over dragic who has been beyond terrible this season. My only problem is that we still haven't addressed our biggest need, the 4 spot.

[rsavaj]

Eh. Well, let me back that up. Glass was in his foot. But it wasn't just an accident. He was being an utter idiot.

whaaaaaatf?

[gleonard1]

My mind is officially blown.

[Jimmy76]

given dragics struggles im ok with this especially since we lotto protected, lets hope brooks can bounce back with us and get the bench back in shape

Dragic: 4 to's per 36, 1.5 ast/to ratio (horrible)
Brooks 2.4

those turnovers were killing me