bhawk wrote:
The best thing about the Suns is that we are YOUNG! Oubre, Cam, Booker, Ayton, Carter, Bridges are all under the age of 25. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but IF we make the playoffs this year... we make the playoffs for the next 5! Think about that for a minute. Just wow. Super happy and impressed with the first 3 games this year. Here's to keeping it up!
Oh, and Booker looks like a 1st team all-star to me. Leadership, skills, big shots. Glad he is a Sun!
Just my own little personal 'Age Threshold', I tend to believe anyone under the age of 28, likely has 5 more good years left in them, so looking at it in this light, we only have Rubio (just turned 29, so a good 3+ seasons left in his 'system'), and Baynes, (32, and not really expected to be a starter anyway), are really be considered to be 'not young', in my eyes, at least. Our entire team is younger than Dragic--let that sink in, a minute.
Anyway, I am obviously impressed, as most all other Suns fans are, in this kind of start to the season. I am 'cautiously optimistic' that we can hold down the fort for the 'worst case scenario 25-gm absence', and if we can just be somewhere around 11-15 or 12-14, by the time Ayton comes back, and assuming he stays healthy, maybe we actually can 'shock the world' with a winning season.
I think, aside from having and actual respectable PG position for the first time in 4 years, having talented 'bigs' is a huge Boon to our success...Saric, Frank, Baynes...that's a far cry from Bender, Anderson, Chandler...
We were missing talent at the PG and PF positions...no Suns fan would debate this point. And with these two positions shored up, it doesn't really matter how successful we were, on the surface, with our draft/FA decisions, that were consistently criticized for...
Somehow, despite the initial questionable way Jones went about talent acquisition this off-season, the point is, we plugged holes, and found a way to do it successfully.