Dzon Dilindzer wrote:Hitachi77 wrote:Dzon Dilindzer wrote:this is not a super talented team and it has more issues than you think
boston, milwaukee and denver are clear cut above phoenix
I know you are here to troll but there is 0 evidence of this. The Nuggets have been way more healthy and have exactly 1 less loss than the Suns. The Bucks have been fully healthy and are in nailbiters against basically everyone. And the Celtics still lose to bad teams and choke in the playoffs.
So yeah, you are wrong. At least the Suns have the health excuse.
im not here to troll, thats my opinion of this team
so called "big 3" consists of booker (who missed 9 games already, which may or may not mean something for the rest of the season), durant whos 35 year old and even if hes still a great, great player, hes past his prime (and has missed a good number of games in the past few seasons), beal whos damaged goods and simply not the player he once was and to me thats a flawed "big 3"
then you have nurk, whos not the same player he was pre-leg break, he lost quickness and it obviously affected his play on both ends of the floor (still a solid player, but he was on trajectory to become an all-star caliber player)
allen whos on a 4th team in 6 years (and with a good reason, teams dont get rid of good players, unless they get even better player in return, which certainly isnt the case here)
gordon is a solid player i guess (you could do better, but you could do worse too)
eubanks, goodwin, watanabe, okogie, metu, bates diop are minimun contract guys who are signed not cause theyre solid or anything, but cause you simply needed to fill out the roster and they were available
ps id like to see phoenix win the chip cause of nurk, but i just cant see it happening (hopefully im wrong)
regular season record doesnt matter, its all about the playoffs and come playoffs time, these teams dont have the issues that phoenix have and theyre not going anywhere, it is what it is
oh, i forgot, all these teams can play great defense unlike phoenix
ps id like to see phoenix win the chip cause of nurk, but i just cant see it happening (hopefully im wrong)
Yeah posting valid criticisms doesn't make you a troll.
Anyway one thing that Phoenix doesn't have is that one MVP level star like Giannis or Jokic that can put a team on his back and take over a series.
Both Jokic and Giannis did that already but KD at this stage is not that level of player, Beal certainly isn't either and Booker while I like him is not a MVP level player. We can only hope by the time the playoffs roll around that all three stars are healthy and ready to contribute.