6th Preseason GM: Suns vs Bobcats

[eastsidecrossover]

good point lilfishi22. I have been a critic of Dragic, and continue to be that because I don't think he is the answer as backup PG. But I will have to agree that his overall stats have been solid outside of shooting. The two games I watched, I was like where is the quickness and the fierceness by taking the ball to the hoop? I see a guy on D who is not that great as he was hyped to be. I can understand that it will take time for him to get comfortable and find the holes to get to the hoop.

Diaw is a triple threat, but lacks the aggression out there. He had a nice game like Dragic did outside of scoring. If he would have scored 10, that would have been a great night. If he can avg 10-6-6, that would be great.

Lopez. Nice to see he had 4 blks, but the guy has to be a beast on grabbing rebounds and scoring around the hoop.

[Purple Palace]

No one televised the game, that's probably why Amare's dunk is nowhere. I don't get why we don't have any preseason games on TV.

The dunk was pretty legit, though. He got the pass from Diaw and slammed it down on Ajinca for the and 1.

[lilfishi22]

good point lilfishi22. I have been a critic of Dragic, and continue to be that because I don't think he is the answer as backup PG. But I will have to agree that his overall stats have been solid outside of shooting. The two games I watched, I was like where is the quickness and the fierceness by taking the ball to the hoop? I see a guy on D who is not that great as he was hyped to be. I can understand that it will take time for him to get comfortable and find the holes to get to the hoop.

Diaw is a triple threat, but lacks the aggression out there. He had a nice game like Dragic did outside of scoring. If he would have scored 10, that would have been a great night. If he can avg 10-6-6, that would be great.

Lopez. Nice to see he had 4 blks, but the guy has to be a beast on grabbing rebounds and scoring around the hoop.

Dragic will only get about 20mpg max during the regular season, so his stats will probably go down a fair bit, something along the lines of 8-3-3-1 maybe? But I do hope he gets more time, maybe as someone suggested before, have both Nash and Dragic on at the same time with Nash playing the 2-guard position.

Diaw shows up as a triple threat three times a year, heck Iguodala was more of a triple threat a season ago than Diaw is now. The difference between Dragic's scoring and Diaw's is that we know Diaw can put up number whenever he wants, Dragic on the other hand is still figuring things out. The sad thing (or good thing, depending on how u look at it) is Dragic has potential to put up Diaw numbers from last season, this season. Sure we're paying Dragic a ridiculous amount of money, but we are paying Diaw 9 times that for a bit more consistency. But you are right, i may just be overreacting with the 1-1fg and forgetting the fact he may have trip dubbed last night if he had been more aggressive.

Lopez was pretty, mmmm, last night. Since I haven't actually watched any of the games its hard for me to say what kind of defender he is. From his stats last night, he could either be a great team defender and be like Amare, blocking shots from the weak side, or he's a great man-defender and block his man's shot. But I'm surprised he didn't get more rebounds.

I think Hite played really well for us last night, hit a few clutch shots and I think he deserves more opportunities to prove himself before we cut him.

[Phx4Life08]

Hites been consistent tonight too