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And not evvvvvvverybody would've chosen Booker; RHJ, Oubre, Payne, and Dekker were all in play as Lotto picks and were 'mocked' as such within the final two weeks before the draft. It's not like Booker was mocked consistently in the top 8 before the draft and he 'slid' all the way down to 13.

And as I mentioned in a couple of posts last week, Len has played pretty well, when given minutes the past month and a half. Noel was NOT given the 'green light' by the med staff, so other than Gobert, Len has played about as well as can be expected.

If we drafted players the Suns fans liked the most in the last 2 drafts, right now we would have Motrezl Harrell (or Looney) and Adreian Payne instead of Booker and Warren.

Here's what 2 of the biggest McDonough's critics on this board had to say on the draft night:

So Suns get to draft a life long role player. You will fit right in with a team filled with role players, Booker.

This makes me sick. 6 years burning tires in the mudd.

Alright we should take Lyles. Booker will never be anything other than a spot up/off the ball perimeter shooter. Just cauz he's light skinned doesnt mean he's Klay Thompson 2.0 LOL

Booker can't create for himself off the dribble or get penetration, plays suspect defense and really the only argument for his upside is "well he was underutilized by Calipari and overshadowed in Kentucky and is still really young and a baby. Oh and he's bigger than Klay at 18."

That's one I'm glad to say I was wrong about Booker. Anyway, still doesn't change the piss poor decisions Ryan has made.

1) overpaying Bledsoe
2) overpaying Knight
2b) trading for Knight
3) overpaying Chandler
4) keeping Markieff
5) putting a bad roster together
6) hiring/firing Jeff H
7) firing assistants in the middle of the season
8) signing/trading I Thomas
9) building a 2 PG system
9b) building a 2 PG system around Medicore PGs
10) Hiring Watson
11) Coddling Kieff
12) trading away the Lakers pick
13) contributing to the lack of loyalty in players eyes
14) signing sonny Weems
15) putting this team in a bad position salary Cap wise with a team filled with overpaid players
16) team is arguably in a Worse position than its was 3 years ago.

Things he got right
1) Drafting Len (sorta)
2) Drafting Booker
3) Trading away Scola
4) Drafting Warren (not yet confirmed yet)
6) trading for Bledsoe (even if Bledsoe is overrated) for practicially nothing is a good return
7) getting a nice role player in Leuer for almost nothing
8) .... (Running out of ideas)


So yeah, Ryan has shown he has a decent eye for drafting but everything else is bad.

Ryan has done many questionable things that should be scrutinized. Sorry if I don't see happy happy joy joy with Ryan.

Do I think firing him is going to help, no because it's gonna take another GM about 3-4 years to clean this mess up. So Suns will be back where they started.


And to be quite Frank.....Sarver is the man at the Top so more of my blame goes to him. He has little desire to be the owner of a class organization. He can talk the talk but has has never walked the walk! Don't see this organization cultural changing until he sells. I don't associate class individual with Sarver.

Craziest thing is that when it appears he is trying to get lineups out there to lose (rebuild the youth is a better way of putting it), we win too much (two years ago, the last five games) and when he tries to put together a winning team (last year and to start this year), we lose too much.

It's almost as if whatever is goal is it backfires repeatedly. Seriously, if not for the Booker, Warren and Len picks, people would REALLY be calling for his head right now. He did get nice returns for the players he played a part in disgruntling, so I guess that's a plus after they became disgruntled.

Edit: Oops....I clicked on a NavLDo link to this post in another thread, thinking it was a post in the same thread, and responded. Didn't even know I could respond in a locked thread. Guess I can.