Trade Nash?

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"For Nash to play like a superstar, it’s necessary that he leads a high pick and roll, open-court, open-floor offense like he has throughout his Phoenix career. In Dallas, Nash was less than a superstar.

Nash is a superstar because of the style of offense he leads, a style that creates misguided personnel decisions, one that will never win a championship because of the type of personnel required to play in it. Yet a style that is just good enough in the regular season to create an effective illusion.

While most all of Nash’s teammates have improved their offensive efficiency in Phoenix, very few were championship-caliber role-players.

Sarver’s front offices have made myriad attempts to build championship teams around Nash, including the hybrid half-court teams with Shaq, and the full-out floor spacing, 10-seconds-or-less teams.

The problem is that by default, any team built around Nash’s superstar floor attributes can never win a championship.

The efforts should be made to transition fully out of the Nash system. The trade of Goran Dragic was a head-scratcher in that regard, among others. The problem is the Nash illusion is too real, too captivating to let go.

Maybe Phoenix fans are happy with a middling team so long as Nash is doing his thing. To be honest, I can actually respect that. But don’t be fooled about what it is or ever was."

http://www.statepress.com/2011/03/23/na ... suns-fans/

I love Steve and I think he will retire as a top 10 PG of all-time but this article is right. We will never win a championship playin like this every year and I think its best to trade Nash for picks and rebuild.

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[Mac1]

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