DarkHawk wrote:If we could convince Love to come here, maybe the Cavs would take the twins off our hands. It'd give them depth and a likely better fit at PF in Kieff. I don't see how they'd say know considering how good they were off the bench for us a couple seasons ago.
If we got Love, we'd be a really solid shooting team at least. If we don't, then blow it the F up and stop trying to compete.
Warren better be a starter this coming season.
The odds that Love comes here are slim to none. The odds that Love's agent uses the Suns for strictly leverage are significantly better. Its not happening. Even if by some stretch of the imagination it did, what does that mean. Are they a championship contender with Love, I don't think so. A comfy 5th or 6th seed maybe and if people are content with 1st and 2nd round knockouts in the playoffs, then I guess it would be an upgrade.
Personally I'd like to see this team finally embrace the suck, instead of trying to add mediocre or average mid tier free agents, just trade away Bledsoe and Tucker for future draft picks, get rid of one, if not both the Morris twins and then go ahead, let the young players get out on the court and take your lumps, give yourself a better shot at a franchise player the way the Lakers just did.
It is nuts but the Lakers could go from winning a championship to rebuilding to having a winning team all while the Suns are still stuck in basketball purgatory. And it isn't because they've done anything particularly excellent, they've simply been a bad team and had some really good fortune along the way. They were bad enough to draft guys like Randle and Russell. I don't have much issue with what McDonough has done thus far. In the first year they seemingly tried to tank but guys played out of their minds and the coaching was outstanding. This was never going to be a true playoff contender as constructed, even if they had kept Dragic, if Thomas had never been signed, the only inevitable result was a worse draft pick and getting knocked out of the playoffs in short order.
This team has talent, but no franchise cornerstone. For a market like Phoenix, there is only two ways of getting that cornerrstone in all likelihood.......the traditional option, which is sucking enough to get a high draft pick in a draft with some true franchise players or the Houston option which is stacking assets on top of assets and hoping to make a trade for a guy like Harden. Considering how rare the second option is, I think the Suns are better off going with the first, going real young and putting out the expectation that it will take some time for this team to come together.
Having been a Suns fan for over 20 years, I've gotten frustrated with teams winning but rarely competing for championships. Rather than trying to cobble together an 8th or 7th seed, I want to see them take a few steps back and hopefully wind up with a top notch player as a result. The bigger issue is how much pressure Foam Finger is putting on McDonough to get this team into the playoffs even if it means f$%%ing up the long term prospects and having to come back to rebuilding once again in a few short years.
In the next draft you have a guy named Ben Simmons out of LSU who could be a transformative prospect. Not just Simmons but you have the kid of Arvydas Sabonis and many other top notch prospects. I want to see the Suns in a position to take one of the very top players and not just hanging around from Picks 13-20, hoping to snag a sleeper.
