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Agreed.
When DA gave Banks and Diaw those contract offers, it kinda screwed us over, Pretty much paying 13 mil for the next 4 years for a player who hardly plays and a guy who has become an underproducing undersized big man bench player who plays too many minutes.
Yup. Although as others have mentioned the Suns kind of had to give Diaw a contract due to both the uncertainty of Amare making a solid comeback (which he definitely has) and having lost Joe J in the past due to not signing him up before he became a restricted free agent. Sarver and Dantoni at the time did not want to make the same mistake again and also risk losing Diaw the following year if Amare was not able to come back. So I can understand the Suns and Dantoni's thinking here.
Banks fell into our lap unfortunately because he was the only hand left at the table after John Salmons left us due to his religious awakening in Sacramento.
But you're right these 2 contracts have screwed us over currently because there's not any teams out there willing to take these 2 players on and help us out in areas of deficiency. The only way we get rid of them is packaging them with assets (Barbosa, Atl pick etc) and I hope Steve Kerr has brass balls and does something like this.
Life's tough sometimes, and even though Mike D (as acting GM at the time) had reasons to sign both of these guys it's now hurting us big time. It will be interesting to see how Kerr/Sarver handle this later on if we're not able to make a trade and better ourselves. Let's hope we can so we can all celebrate a championship. I'm in the camp that unless we make a move of some sort that CURRENTLY we don't have the squad to go all the way. The sad thing is I think the current chemisty issues and coaching decisions are bringing us down more than the personnel on the team and are mostly responsible for our recent hicupps on the court...
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