2023-24 Season Discussion and Speculation 3 - Post Free Agency Discussion

Mulhollanddrive · Post #1841 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 9:00 pm

Is Damion Lee out for months?

How would we play Boston?

White, Holiday, Brown, Tatum, Porzingis
Beal, Booker, Durant, Bates-Diop, Nurkic

That's a pretty heavy weight battle, we have the better bench too.

Fo-Real · Post #1842 » by **Fo-Real** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 9:16 pm

"Lee hurt"..... Fo-Real unbothered.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #1843 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 9:23 pm

He wouldn't play in playoffs but might have been someone to eat minutes if Beal, Booker were out for a while

enigmatics · Post #1844 » by **enigmatics** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 9:26 pm

bwoolf2 wrote:
enigmatics wrote:
bwoolf2 wrote:
Got it Nurk is perfect for the Suns and is exactly what they needed. We will see

See you did it again. First it was "great". Now it's "perfect". Don't be so obvious.

Calm down Thor

You shall feel the might of Odinson! lol

sunsbum · Post #1845 » by **sunsbum** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 9:51 pm

MrMiyagi wrote:
enigmatics wrote:
Qwigglez wrote:
"Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant has sustained a right knee meniscus injury and will be out until further notice."
The injury occurred due to MrMiyagi of the Suns RealGM board jinxing his own team.

For real though - I've never seen anyone doom their own squad like that. So miserable.
We added 3 major rotation players who have not played more than 60 games in the past 3 seasons. Just setting some realistic expectations that our dudes are going to be missing lots of time.

Oh gee I guess I never thought about injuries… I’m glad this has been brought to the boards attention.

Post #1846 » by **Qwigglez** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 9:53 pm

Not sure if this was posted yet.

Read on Twitter

KdoubleDees23 · Post #1847 » by **KdoubleDees23** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 9:59 pm

To be honest suns should have tried for Brogdan and Grant Williams Vs Nurkic and Allen

sunskerr · Post #1848 » by **sunskerr** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 10:01 pm

Lee was like the 13th man maybe 14th ahead of only like Bol and maybe Metu...this won't mean anything particularly since Allen and Little are both better than him. Just have to be honest about it - lots of guys on our team who are better than him and that's the way it should be. Maybe he gets cut instead of Keon Johnson now. Who knows.

bwoolf2 · Post #1849 » by **bwoolf2** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 10:34 pm

One other thing to keep in mind is this is for all intents an entirely different team, new coach, KD was only here for 8 regular season games, Book is literally the only player back that played significant minutes last year and will again this year, other than that all new guys. Likely takes some time, question is how quick do they come together. Not sure they ever did last year after the KD trade. Having training camp will help no doubt but...

I'm sure the data exists somewhere but I don't think a roster has ever been turned over as much as the Suns have, ever...

Calvin Klein · Post #1850 » by **Calvin Klein** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 10:57 pm

KdoubleDees23 wrote:To be honest suns should have tried for Brogdan and Grant Williams Vs Nurkic and Allen

How do you know they didn’t?

matt131 · Post #1851 » by **matt131** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 11:04 pm

If Lee is going to be out for a substantial amount of time, I wonder if he becomes a cut candidate. He’s a good guy, but I doubt he cracks the rotation at all.

bigfoot · Post #1852 » by **bigfoot** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 11:36 pm

matt131 wrote:If Lee is going to be out for a substantial amount of time, I wonder if he becomes a cut candidate. He’s a good guy, but I doubt he cracks the rotation at all.

Not a problem for deep pockets Ishbia. It's only $5 million and he can write it off.

LukasBMW · Post #1853 » by **LukasBMW** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 11:38 pm

Seeing Brogdan, Jrue, and Dame switch teams due to the Ayton trade makes me mad.

We needed a pure starting PG and 3 of the top 10 guys just fell through our hands.

I think I'd rather we just tried to trade Ayton strait up for Dame and run KD at Center with Dame/Beal/Booker/whocares as 1-4.

We'd outscore everyone.

bigfoot · Post #1854 » by **bigfoot** » Sun Oct 1, 2023 11:41 pm

bigfoot wrote:
matt131 wrote:If Lee is going to be out for a substantial amount of time, I wonder if he becomes a cut candidate. He’s a good guy, but I doubt he cracks the rotation at all.

Not a problem for deep pockets Ishbia. It's only $5 million and he can write it off.

Realistically though it might be better to keep Keon Johnson and Nassir Little for development purposes and hand Damion Lee and Ish Wainwright their walking papers.

Jdiddy701 · Post #1855 » by **Jdiddy701** » Mon Oct 2, 2023 12:02 am

matt131 wrote:If Lee is going to be out for a substantial amount of time, I wonder if he becomes a cut candidate. He’s a good guy, but I doubt he cracks the rotation at all.

Yeah, really sucks for D Lee. He’s an easy guy to root for and seems to be a really good teammate. Unfortunately, the Suns will probably have to waive him now, like you mentioned. Injuries really suck.

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Mulhollanddrive · Post #1856 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Mon Oct 2, 2023 12:03 am

4 months would have him back after All-Star break, we're 17 deep maybe just keep him in case we need an experienced guard if Beal or Booker are out. He's also sort of an emergency PG.

Jdiddy701 · Post #1857 » by **Jdiddy701** » Mon Oct 2, 2023 12:04 am

Ish Wainright is another guy who probably will be waived. Another guy that is a solid dude off the court. He is the best when it comes to interacting with fans at the games. I wanted him to succeed with us so bad after he lost his dad mid season last year. Maybe we can sign to a 2way spot after we waive him?

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King4Day · Post #1858 » by **King4Day** » Mon Oct 2, 2023 12:15 am

bwgood77 wrote:
King4Day wrote:
Calvin Klein wrote:
DId GoK leave? I never really bothered reading his books turned posts but he seemed alright.

I think he was taking a break from here.
Hard to stay motivated to post when people can't simply ignore posts they have no interest in reading and rip on him instead. Some people need an outlet to vent on and for some reason people used him as their punching bag.

He never cared about that. He was good natured and never let it bother him or deter him.

Perhaps. Still doesn't excuse the way people treated him

Fo-Real · Post #1859 » by **Fo-Real** » Mon Oct 2, 2023 12:48 am

Lee going down means Keon Johnson gets to stay. One awesome fact that still exists...... I am not ever gonna see Landry Shamet checking into a game with SUNS across his chest!!!

King4Day · Post #1860 » by **King4Day** » Mon Oct 2, 2023 12:53 am

bigfoot wrote:
matt131 wrote:If Lee is going to be out for a substantial amount of time, I wonder if he becomes a cut candidate. He’s a good guy, but I doubt he cracks the rotation at all.

Not a problem for deep pockets Ishbia. It's only $5 million and he can write it off.

Plus another 5-10 mil in tax. Not as simple as cutting him.

With the Deandre trade, which is closer to your take?