Season Speculation, Trade Ideas & Discussion 3: About Last Knight

Fo-Real · Post #41 » by **Fo-Real** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 5:50 pm

What's wierd is he was out with it a couple games, came back and played one game, then was out again, now done?!?!

Villalobos · Post #42 » by **Villalobos** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 5:56 pm

Sunsss wrote:

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carey · Post #43 » by **carey** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 5:58 pm

Gambo confirmed.

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King4Day · Post #44 » by **King4Day** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 5:59 pm

Who will take his minutes (as minute as they were)? Will we see more Derrick Jones?

carey · Post #45 » by **carey** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:00 pm

DarkHawk wrote:Who will take his minutes (as minute as they were)? Will we see more Derrick Jones?

Only if Tucker gets traded. I think this minimizes a possible Tucker deal unless it's one you can't pass up.

WeekapaugGroove · Post #46 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:06 pm

carey wrote:
DarkHawk wrote:Who will take his minutes (as minute as they were)? Will we see more Derrick Jones?

Only if Tucker gets traded. I think this minimizes a possible Tucker deal unless it's one you can't pass up.

God i hope not and for **** sake i hope the suns dont think like this. If an asset can be had for tucker you take it and worry about filling those minutes later. Give jones the run or sign some scrub off the street.

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Post #47 » by **bwgood77** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:32 pm

carey wrote:
DarkHawk wrote:Who will take his minutes (as minute as they were)? Will we see more Derrick Jones?

Only if Tucker gets traded. I think this minimizes a possible Tucker deal unless it's one you can't pass up.

Why? Still to go for the 8th spot? Can't Dudley just play minutes instead?

AtheJ415 · Post #48 » by **AtheJ415** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:40 pm

bwgood77 wrote:
carey wrote:
DarkHawk wrote:Who will take his minutes (as minute as they were)? Will we see more Derrick Jones?

Only if Tucker gets traded. I think this minimizes a possible Tucker deal unless it's one you can't pass up.

Why? Still to go for the 8th spot? Can't Dudley just play minutes instead?

Yeah. Us not trading Tucker because somebody else is injured makes little sense. We have a 3/4 in Dudley anyways who is sitting there, and even if we didn't, since we aren't in playoff contention who really cares if we have to sign somebody off the street to play those minutes or play guys out of position who would otherwise be sitting?

We should trade Tucker for the best offer at the deadline. Bender's injury shouldn't change that at all.

SideSwipe · Post #49 » by **SideSwipe** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:41 pm

carey wrote:Gambo confirmed.

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Interesting take. I wonder if he has a chipped bone floating in there that is causing trouble. That might explain the try it out for a game move we saw. PHX is basically saying lets fix you now, we can get you some time in Summer league and get you ready for next year. It also allows him to be away from the team and in the weight room.

TeamTragic · Post #50 » by **TeamTragic** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:46 pm

WeekapaugGroove wrote:I just assume its true because this franchise might actually be cursed.

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We are beyond might be cursed and right into most definitely. I can't believe Bender needs surgery on his ankle. Didn't Len have similar issues with his foot? :noway:

RaisingArizona · Post #51 » by **RaisingArizona** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:51 pm

ah, damnit

Fo-Real · Post #52 » by **Fo-Real** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:55 pm

TOO wrote:
Fo-Real wrote:Lol, goddammit.... so does that mean a space opens up for us to try to also develop Jones Junior? Does he now get Court time?

Doubt it, aside from athleticism, I'm not sure he has any NBA level skill.

Well, we know he is long, athletic, can run and jump. If he can defend on top of all of that, then he has an nba skillset. If he can catch, its a plus, with good passers around him. Learning to shoot and basketball iq are his final frontier after that.

carey · Post #53 » by **carey** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 6:59 pm

bwgood77 wrote:Why? Still to go for the 8th spot? Can't Dudley just play minutes instead?

Sure, he absolutely could. Does Watson give you any reasons to think he'd be inclined to do that though? Tucker is his security blanket out there and Dudley's defense is worse than Bender's. I just don't see it happening now. I hope I'm wrong.

P.s. I know you read a lot of posts but when I have I once suggested this season we were trying to make the playoffs?

Jdiddy701 · Post #54 » by **Jdiddy701** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 7:08 pm

Hopefully this injury helps Bender by sitting back and watching the game. I'm looking on the positive side.

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jcsunsfan · Post #55 » by **jcsunsfan** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 7:24 pm

The positive side is that he is a player who has not been a big part of the regular rotation getting injured in a season where wins do not really matter.

Get it fixed, whatever it is. Let the 18 or 19 year old 7 footer develop.

Post #56 » by **bwgood77** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 7:41 pm

carey wrote:
bwgood77 wrote:Why? Still to go for the 8th spot? Can't Dudley just play minutes instead?

Sure, he absolutely could. Does Watson give you any reasons to think he'd be inclined to do that though? Tucker is his security blanket out there and Dudley's defense is worse than Bender's. I just don't see it happening now. I hope I'm wrong.

P.s. I know you read a lot of posts but when I have I once suggested this season we were trying to make the playoffs?

I didn't say you had explicitly stated we were trying to make the playoffs, but it only makes sense that PJ plays so many more minutes than Dudley for trade value and potentially to try to make a push for the playoffs because we need the defense.

Obviously now that Bender is out we probably have more minutes for everyone but unless this team sees PJ as part of the future and want to re-sign him this offseason then I don't see why we keep him down the stretch and especially play him a ton. It's meaningless after the trade deadline unless his playing with Chriss significantly impacts Chriss' pace of development in some way.

pidi · Post #57 » by **pidi** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 8:12 pm

Nothing happend. He needs surgery, his body is still Young and he will recover. He has now Time to get used to the System ( if there is a System) and get his body ready for the NBA

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Scutt · Post #58 » by **Scutt** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 8:35 pm

The Suns were not going to play Bender anyway, so I do not see what the fuss is about. Now the Golden child PJ Tucker can continue his 40 minutes a game without the coaching staff being questioned why our #4 pick was always glued to the bench, despite all the losing.

Jarlaxle0204 · Post #59 » by **Jarlaxle0204** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 8:44 pm

This is a bummer as Bender is probably the player I most wanted to see more of this season and was hoping he'd have an increased role as the season came closer to ending.

King4Day · Post #60 » by **King4Day** » Wed Feb 8, 2017 9:06 pm

Jarlaxle0204 wrote:This is a bummer as Bender is probably the player I most wanted to see more of this season and was hoping he'd have an increased role as the season came closer to ending.

I think you speak for many of us.