Suns Think Their Players Are God.

[Austin]

I think they'll surprise a lot of people, but they're not gonna be like 04-05...

[JohnVancouver]

We could really use a defensive glue guy like Greg Buckner - he would be a lot more useful than Tucker

That's what i'm disappointed in - that we didn't look to add a role-playing defensive guy instead of Griffin or Tucker. I don't even care what position, a perimeter guy or a big.
But like Diesel said, this is a decent roster that might surprise a lot of people.
Now, it could easily surprise them by allowing 200 pointss a game ....

[JohnVancouver]

lol i like the use of the term 'agenda' to actually mean 'opinions.' its like when you see someone on tv accusing obama of having an 'agenda.' duh, you know?

there's no reason for the suns to sign anyone now anyway. LETS ROLL

Generally, a president is expected to have an agenda ....

[Sun Scorched]

Honestly, I like how this team doesn't have many expectations surrounding it. I think they will play free and loose while bringing rookies and young guys into the fold.

With SSOL our problem was that we didn't have anyone to keep our +/- up while Nash and some of our other starters were on the bench. Rebounding was our second biggest problem.

I mean compare the two rosters:

04-05
PG - Nash/Parker
SG - Johnson/Barbosa
SF - Richardson/Jackson
PF - Marion/Jacobson
C - Stoudemire/Hunter

09-10
PG - Nash/Dragic
SG - Richardson/Barbosa
SF - Hill/Dudley
PF - Frye/Clark
C - Stoudemire/Lopez

[JohnVancouver]

NO. PLAYER POS HT WT YRS DOB FROM
== ====== === == == === === ====
0 Walter McCarty F 6-10 230 8 2/1/74 Kentucky
2 Joe Johnson G 6-7 230 3 6/29/81 Arkansas
3 Quentin Richardson G 6-5 238 4 4/13/80 Depaul
10 Leandro Barbosa G 6-3 188 1 11/28/82 Brazil
13 Steve Nash G 6-3 195 8 2/7/74 Santa Clara
17 Paul Shirley F 6-10 230 2 12/23/77 Iowa St
21 Jimmy Jackson G 6-6 220 11 10/14/70 Ohio St.
31 Shawn Marion F 6-7 228 5 5/7/78 UNLV
32 Amare Stoudemire F 6-10 245 2 11/16/82 Cypress Creek (FL) HS
43 Jake Voskuhl C 6-11 250 4 11/1/77 Connecticut
45 Steve Hunter C 7-0 240 3 10/31/81 Depaul
46 Bo Outlaw F 6-8 220 11 4/13/71 Houston


---- Who's Parker , in the post above this?

[rsavaj]

Maybe Smush? We had him for a few 10 days that season.

[JohnVancouver]

Maybe Smush? We had him for a few 10 days that season.

looking at the rosters, they're not wildly disparate in terms of talent
What's changed is how much better everyone else is.

[WTFsunsFTW]

JJ and Marion are significant differences.

Im still excited

[JohnVancouver]

JJ and Marion are significant differences.

Im still excited

Yeah , JJ is just plain better than Jrich, but i keep thinking we could find an athletic wing who plays D and turn him into Marion ... someone in that style anyway, Shawn was pretty special

[rsavaj]

I'm not religious, but I use this analogy a lot to describe why those old Suns teams were so special.

Nash was the Father
Amare, the Son
Marion: The Holy Spirit

[lilfishi22]

I'm not religious, but I use this analogy a lot to describe why those old Suns teams were so special.

Nash was the Father
Amare, the Son
Marion: The Holy Spirit

I like that

[Sun Scorched]

JJ and Marion are significant differences.

Im still excited

JJ is leagues better than Richardson now, but Barbosa is much better than he was. In terms of scoring we aren't lacking.

Replacing Marion is much tougher, the only hope is that Clark is "who we thought he was" to use a native Arizona quote.