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Where would you rank last year's Booker on the 2004-05 team?

Best player
12
12%
2nd best
20
19%
3rd best
37
36%
4th best
25
24%
5th best
10
10%
 
Total votes: 104

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Post#381 » by TeamTragic » Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:00 pm

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JDJ26 wrote:Suns need to find a stop gap PG before the trade deadline. Booker is having to do too much. He should not be the main facilitator and scorer. Its breaking him down.


We'll really need one when Booker gets shut down after the break.


When Booker gets shutdown we are looking for maximum losses. Jones already said we are looking towards FA for a point guard.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#382 » by jcsunsfan » Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:03 pm

GoranTragic wrote:
TheLogician wrote:
JDJ26 wrote:Suns need to find a stop gap PG before the trade deadline. Booker is having to do too much. He should not be the main facilitator and scorer. Its breaking him down.


We'll really need one when Booker gets shut down after the break.


When Booker gets shutdown we are looking for maximum losses. Jones already said we are looking towards FA for a point guard.

Tanking makes no sense this year. The odds are not good anymore, and outside of Zion, no player in this draft will help us much. It is just a bad gamble all around.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#383 » by bwgood77 » Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:25 pm

JDJ26 wrote:Suns need to find a stop gap PG before the trade deadline. Booker is having to do too much. He should not be the main facilitator and scorer. Its breaking him down.

Booker certainly hasn't done much lately. Melton is getting better. Okobo is getting better, both playing more with Book out. When he returns they should continue to improve. Sure I'd like to find a better one but I don't expect it will happen.

Possibly DSJr but I don't know that that's a huge upgrade. He can be exciting though with some crazy dunks...shoots fairly well lately..decent defensively but not as good as Melton. Turns it over about as much as he assists.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#384 » by TheLogician » Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:35 pm

jcsunsfan wrote:
GoranTragic wrote:
TheLogician wrote:
We'll really need one when Booker gets shut down after the break.


When Booker gets shutdown we are looking for maximum losses. Jones already said we are looking towards FA for a point guard.

Tanking makes no sense this year. The odds are not good anymore, and outside of Zion, no player in this draft will help us much. It is just a bad gamble all around.


We might as well take advantage of being this bad. McDonough/Sarver really blew it. Book needs to get healthy anyway.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#385 » by bwgood77 » Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:46 pm

TheLogician wrote:
jcsunsfan wrote:
GoranTragic wrote:
When Booker gets shutdown we are looking for maximum losses. Jones already said we are looking towards FA for a point guard.

Tanking makes no sense this year. The odds are not good anymore, and outside of Zion, no player in this draft will help us much. It is just a bad gamble all around.


We might as well take advantage of being this bad. McDonough/Sarver really blew it. Book needs to get healthy anyway.


We will almost certainly be bottom 4 or at best bottom 5 anyway, so no reason to actively try to be bad. Holding Booker out unless he is still hurt is not going to help him or the team get any better going into next year, especially since odds of #1 don't get much worse at 4 or even 5. I won't be surprised if a team 6th-8th worst wins the lottery. Hope it's not Dallas though.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#386 » by TeamTragic » Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:58 pm

bwgood77 wrote:
TheLogician wrote:
jcsunsfan wrote:Tanking makes no sense this year. The odds are not good anymore, and outside of Zion, no player in this draft will help us much. It is just a bad gamble all around.


We might as well take advantage of being this bad. McDonough/Sarver really blew it. Book needs to get healthy anyway.


We will almost certainly be bottom 4 or at best bottom 5 anyway, so no reason to actively try to be bad. Holding Booker out unless he is still hurt is not going to help him or the team get any better going into next year, especially since odds of #1 don't get much worse at 4 or even 5. I won't be surprised if a team 6th-8th worst wins the lottery. Hope it's not Dallas though.


Booker has been playing hurt this entire season. We shouldn't be risking his health when clearly we are lottery bound.

We need to keep our pick and go after a point guard in FA.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#387 » by bwgood77 » Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:02 pm

GoranTragic wrote:
bwgood77 wrote:
TheLogician wrote:
We might as well take advantage of being this bad. McDonough/Sarver really blew it. Book needs to get healthy anyway.


We will almost certainly be bottom 4 or at best bottom 5 anyway, so no reason to actively try to be bad. Holding Booker out unless he is still hurt is not going to help him or the team get any better going into next year, especially since odds of #1 don't get much worse at 4 or even 5. I won't be surprised if a team 6th-8th worst wins the lottery. Hope it's not Dallas though.


Booker has been playing hurt this entire season. We shouldn't be risking his health when clearly we are lottery bound.

We need to keep our pick and go after a point guard in FA.


Are you saying he's always going to be hurt? I said play him unless he continues to be hurt. I agree not risking his health if he's hurt. If you're saying don't risk his health even if he's not hurt, I disagree with that.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#388 » by TeamTragic » Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:09 pm

bwgood77 wrote:
GoranTragic wrote:
bwgood77 wrote:
We will almost certainly be bottom 4 or at best bottom 5 anyway, so no reason to actively try to be bad. Holding Booker out unless he is still hurt is not going to help him or the team get any better going into next year, especially since odds of #1 don't get much worse at 4 or even 5. I won't be surprised if a team 6th-8th worst wins the lottery. Hope it's not Dallas though.


Booker has been playing hurt this entire season. We shouldn't be risking his health when clearly we are lottery bound.

We need to keep our pick and go after a point guard in FA.


Are you saying he's always going to be hurt? I said play him unless he continues to be hurt. I agree not risking his health if he's hurt. If you're saying don't risk his health even if he's not hurt, I disagree with that.


We are not getting a quality point guard via trade. That will happen in FA therefore Booker should only be playing the bare minimum. However if he has any nagging injuries he should be resting.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#389 » by bwgood77 » Sun Jan 13, 2019 12:36 am

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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#390 » by lilfishi22 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:19 am

bwgood77 wrote:
Read on Twitter

The guy is a smart young man

A real asset to the community
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#392 » by PerkinsFor3 » Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:20 pm

lilfishi22 wrote:
bwgood77 wrote:
Read on Twitter

The guy is a smart young man

A real asset to the community



Read on Twitter
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#393 » by Son of Ra » Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:00 am

PerkinsFor3 wrote:
lilfishi22 wrote:
bwgood77 wrote:
Read on Twitter

The guy is a smart young man

A real asset to the community



Read on Twitter
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Just adding more children and young families to donate 2.5 million to. Each.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#394 » by RunDogGun » Wed Jan 16, 2019 3:01 pm

True or not true, its a distraction. Booker needs to fix on and off court problem.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#395 » by hollywood6964 » Wed Jan 16, 2019 3:27 pm

Son of Ra wrote:
PerkinsFor3 wrote:
lilfishi22 wrote:The guy is a smart young man

A real asset to the community



Read on Twitter
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Just adding more children and young families to donate 2.5 million to. Each.

Why's he giving more money to the underprivileged, he's already got huge donations for the next 18 years spoken for.
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Post#396 » by Saberestar » Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:06 pm

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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#397 » by Bogyo » Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:04 pm

Well, if it s true his defense is not only sub-par on the basketball court...
# waiting for the next chapter
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#398 » by WeekapaugGroove » Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:52 pm

I have no issue with booker enjoying himself off the court but man juggling that many women sounds awful and stressful.

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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#399 » by RunDogGun » Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:27 pm

WeekapaugGroove wrote:I have no issue with booker enjoying himself off the court but man juggling that many women sounds awful and stressful.

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One could get an injury just from that alone.
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Re: Booker updates and news 

Post#400 » by Revived » Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:28 pm

It’s interesting that the timing of his announcement for the $2.5M donation came right after the reports of his baby mama drama came out.

And it’s not even like his $2.5M donation was new news because it was announced when he had initially signed his contract back in the summer that he was planning to do donate that.

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