Game 21: Phoenix (11-9) At Portland (8-11)

[Calvin Klein]

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_ ... not-so-hot

Gentry admits we have too many wing players.

[DRK]

Wow. Took him long enough to realise.

I predict a big trade going down before the deadline. The FO was dumb to add so many wing players.

I propose Vlad and LOUUU for Hedo.

[Calvin Klein]

I miss Lou. He should have never left. He would be healthy and productive if he stayed.

[DRK]

I miss Lou. He should have never left. He would be healthy and productive if he stayed.

Same here. Lou was what defined our bench. I would have Lou over Turk and maybe Warrick.

[lilfishi22]

I like Warrick because he's our only legit PnR guy but I'd definitely take Lou over Hedo and even JChll(only because we have too many wings as is)

[YFZblu]

I was only able to catch the last seven minutes, I'll have to watch the rest of the game later...But from what I saw, the Suns did the exact thing I warned against on page one of this thread; they played Nate McMillan basketball: Slowly walking the ball up the court, even on Blazers misses. SMH.

The Suns don't have the personnel to play that type of basketball and beat the Blazers. Bottom line.

[lilfishi22]

I was only able to catch the last seven minutes, I'll have to watch the rest of the game later...But from what I saw, the Suns did the exact thing I warned against on page one; they played Nate McMillan basketball: Slowly walking the ball up the court, even on Blazers misses. SMH.

The Suns don't have the personnel to play that type of basketball and beat the Blazers. Bottom line.

Yeah, I only caught the the last few minutes of the 3rd and the 4th quarter. We weren't running on makes or misses. We let the Blazers set up their defense and even the commentators brought it up. Very annoyed to see us not playing to our strengths.

[YFZblu]

I was only able to catch the last seven minutes, I'll have to watch the rest of the game later...But from what I saw, the Suns did the exact thing I warned against on page one; they played Nate McMillan basketball: Slowly walking the ball up the court, even on Blazers misses. SMH.

The Suns don't have the personnel to play that type of basketball and beat the Blazers. Bottom line.

Yeah, I only caught the the last few minutes of the 3rd and the 4th quarter. We weren't running on makes or misses. We let the Blazers set up their defense and even the commentators brought it up. Very annoyed to see us not playing to our strengths.

WTF happened to Warrick? Once again, I'll have to watch the game from the beginning...But running the pick-and-roll with Earl Barron in crunch time is never a good choice. Hell, playing Earl Barron 32 minutes on any night is a terrible choice. I was legitimately flabbergasted.

[lilfishi22]

I dunno about Warrick since I missed like half the game but for much of the fourth (from what I recall from a crappy net feed) we were running with Nash/Dudley/Hill/Frye/Barron. Warrick came in pretty late. Barron is terrible around the rim. He has no offensive awareness. He plays with a lot of energy and gets a lot of offensive touches off missed shots but he can't even tip in the easiest shot. He should just grab the board and pass it back out. Also, maybe he's just not in sync with Nash yet, but it seems he has some pretty bad hands. Couldn't catch half the spoon-fed Nash passes.

[schnakenpopanz]

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/22519/suns-second-unit-not-so-hot

Gentry admits we have too many wing players.

finally

[lilfishi22]

Wow. Took him long enough to realise.

I predict a big trade going down before the deadline. The FO was dumb to add so many wing players.

I propose Vlad and LOUUU for Hedo.

I expect earlier. Maybe not Dec 15th early, but probably around the New year. I can't imagine us staying pat when it seems clear that sitting one of the wings (sub-10mpg) would do wonders for Gentry's rotation. JChill may be moved since he does seem like the odd man out (lack of a shooting touch, still lacks chemistry with the team) even though I really like him and I think Babby will fight to keep him in Phoenix.

[JohnVancouver]

I think it's a mistake to think that Gentry has only just noticed the overabundance of SFs on the roster .... it may now be bad enough, causing him enough grief, that he'll mention it publicly

Barron is doing what he's expected to do. It would be nice if he could play offense more reliably but if he could do all the things we'd like him to, he wouldn't have been available. I'd really like to keep him down at the end of the bench though - he may learn a few things, he's cheap and he's a useful big guy in times of need.

I'm strangely okay with this loss - most other nights we win this one, last night we didn't, for reasons that have been well-stated prior on this thread. All I can really say is, wouldn't Aldridge look good here?

[YFZblu]

I'm thinking Gentry is mentioning it in hopes that it puts pressure on the FO to make a move.

[lilfishi22]

I'm thinking Gentry is mentioning it in hopes that it puts pressure on the FO to make a move.

I was thinking that.