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[kennydorglas]

Ohh this number #77 is kinda good
Imagine if we had a chance to draft him.
So unlucky

[SunsRback4Good]

Ohh this number #77 is kinda good
Imagine if we had a chance to draft him.
So unlucky

I’d prefer Lively & Jones Jr over Luka any day of the week. They are the perfect role players.

[bigfoot]

Ohh this number #77 is kinda good
Imagine if we had a chance to draft him.
So unlucky

I’d prefer Lively & Jones Jr over Luka any day of the week. They are the perfect role players.

KD never happens if we drafted Luka. Luka, Book, Bridges over Book, Bridges, Ayton 100 out of 100 times.

[handsome salary]

Ohh this number #77 is kinda good
Imagine if we had a chance to draft him.
So unlucky

Star players and coaching bring out the kinda good to kinda great in the rest of the team. Suns had that for one year with CP3. Then it was Book can elevate the others, then Book/KD can and now the Big Wee Wee.

Suns don't have a single player with all their All Stars who's a leader. ISO ball during play, stand quietly on the court next to each other and stare blankly on the sidelines.

Luka back in the WCF just shows what a terrible decision the Suns made taking Ayton. Add in the trading the future away for KD and Beal with **** drafting shows there's no way anyone involved in making team decisions currently is smart enough to put together a championship team.

[Ghost of Kleine]

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I'm sharing this to put emphasis on the importance of having a long, athletic, very mobile rim-running, shot-blocking center in the playoffs. Keeping Nurkic is fine as long as we can also have that kind of alternative to be able to switch to in matchups! Whether Missi or Richards or Damian James or Kai Jones, etc. We need to really have that option we've ignored for such a long time. Really long switchable defensive two-way wing/forward options too like what the Mavs have in Washington. We too could emulate this with Ryan Dunn, Nae'Qwan Tomlin, JT Toppin, via the draft or in free agency with any of Nik Batum, Robert Covington, Kelly Oubre or KJ Martin jr from the vet min pool.

But we really need these type of acquisitions to balance out our roster rather than having mismatched overlapping skill sets. Versatility in matchups is critical for contending teams.

[bwgood77]

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I'm sharing this to put emphasis on the importance of having a long, athletic, very mobile rim-running, shot-blocking center in the playoffs. Keeping Nurkic is fine as long as we can also have that kind of alternative to be able to switch to in matchups! Whether Missi or Richards or Damian James or Kai Jones, etc. We need to really have that option we've ignored for such a long time. Really long switchable defensive two-way wing/forward options too like what the Mavs have in Washington. We too could emulate this with Ryan Dunn, Nae'Qwan Tomlin, JT Toppin, via the draft or in free agency with any of Nik Batum, Robert Covington, Kelly Oubre or KJ Martin jr from the vet min pool.

But we really need these type of acquisitions to balance out our roster rather than having mismatched overlapping skill sets. Versatility in matchups is critical for contending teams.

But "We don't want the 10th pick, we want some old vet who can contribute now!"

Of course with our 10th pick last time, we took Jalen Smith, in a much stronger draft.

[SunsRback4Good]

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I'm sharing this to put emphasis on the importance of having a long, athletic, very mobile rim-running, shot-blocking center in the playoffs. Keeping Nurkic is fine as long as we can also have that kind of alternative to be able to switch to in matchups! Whether Missi or Richards or Damian James or Kai Jones, etc. We need to really have that option we've ignored for such a long time. Really long switchable defensive two-way wing/forward options too like what the Mavs have in Washington. We too could emulate this with Ryan Dunn, Nae'Qwan Tomlin, JT Toppin, via the draft or in free agency with any of Nik Batum, Robert Covington, Kelly Oubre or KJ Martin jr from the vet min pool.

But we really need these type of acquisitions to balance out our roster rather than having mismatched overlapping skill sets. Versatility in matchups is critical for contending teams.

But "We don't want the 10th pick, we want some old vet who can contribute now!"

Of course with our 10th pick last time, we took Jalen Smith, in a much stronger draft.

Suns need better scouts we can’t draft the right players to make our team better.

[Ghost of Kleine]

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I'm sharing this to put emphasis on the importance of having a long, athletic, very mobile rim-running, shot-blocking center in the playoffs. Keeping Nurkic is fine as long as we can also have that kind of alternative to be able to switch to in matchups! Whether Missi or Richards or Damian James or Kai Jones, etc. We need to really have that option we've ignored for such a long time. Really long switchable defensive two-way wing/forward options too like what the Mavs have in Washington. We too could emulate this with Ryan Dunn, Nae'Qwan Tomlin, JT Toppin, via the draft or in free agency with any of Nik Batum, Robert Covington, Kelly Oubre or KJ Martin jr from the vet min pool.

But we really need these type of acquisitions to balance out our roster rather than having mismatched overlapping skill sets. Versatility in matchups is critical for contending teams.

But "We don't want the 10th pick, we want some old vet who can contribute now!"

Of course with our 10th pick last time, we took Jalen Smith, in a much stronger draft.

Suns need better scouts we can’t draft the right players to make our team better.

True! But then doesn't Ishbia have the money to make that happen?

[TeamTragic]

How about them Pacers?

[bwgood77]

How about them Pacers?

Glad they took it, but I don't think they have a prayer vs Boston, though of course neither did NY.

Unless they shoot like they did tonight where they broke an NBA playoff record for FG%.

And I only think Boston can compete with whoever comes out of the west. Would probably be the favorite but I think any of the WC teams left would beat anyone in the east but Boston, probably fairly easily.

I really want to see TWolves/Celtics, even though I will pull for the Pacers because I can never root for a Boston team.

If not TWolves, I'd rather see Dallas than Denver, just because Denver won it last year...kind of had enough of them.

[lilfishi22]

Said at the start of the playoffs, the C's have such an easy road to win the EC and it'll play out that way with Pacers in the ECF. I don't know who gets out of the West but I wonder who's the best match up for the C's

[bigfoot]

How about them Pacers?

Glad they took it, but I don't think they have a prayer vs Boston, though of course neither did NY.

Unless they shoot like they did tonight where they broke an NBA playoff record for FG%.

And I only think Boston can compete with whoever comes out of the west. Would probably be the favorite but I think any of the WC teams left would beat anyone in the east but Boston, probably fairly easily.

I really want to see TWolves/Celtics, even though I will pull for the Pacers because I can never root for a Boston team.

If not TWolves, I'd rather see Dallas than Denver, just because Denver won it last year...kind of had enough of them.

Could you imagine Dallas winning the finals? Luka Eurocup champ & mvp, Euroleague champ & mvp, NBA champ & finals mvp. A feather left would be NBA MVP which he will probably get at some point.

[sunskerr]

Could you imagine Dallas winning the finals? Luka Eurocup champ & mvp, Euroleague champ & mvp, NBA champ & finals mvp. A feather left would be NBA MVP which he will probably get at some point.

I can imagine but I dont want to...

Celtics probably are winning. Porzingis will have to stay injured for the west to have a chance.

[bwgood77]

How about them Pacers?

Glad they took it, but I don't think they have a prayer vs Boston, though of course neither did NY.

Unless they shoot like they did tonight where they broke an NBA playoff record for FG%.

And I only think Boston can compete with whoever comes out of the west. Would probably be the favorite but I think any of the WC teams left would beat anyone in the east but Boston, probably fairly easily.

I really want to see TWolves/Celtics, even though I will pull for the Pacers because I can never root for a Boston team.

If not TWolves, I'd rather see Dallas than Denver, just because Denver won it last year...kind of had enough of them.

Could you imagine Dallas winning the finals? Luka Eurocup champ & mvp, Euroleague champ & mvp, NBA champ & finals mvp. A feather left would be NBA MVP which he will probably get at some point.

Yes, I could imagine it when our #1 pick was upcoming, though I pretty much knew we wouldn't take him after McD's excitement after bringing in the bigs and saying we would draft a big.

[bwgood77]

Could you imagine Dallas winning the finals? Luka Eurocup champ & mvp, Euroleague champ & mvp, NBA champ & finals mvp. A feather left would be NBA MVP which he will probably get at some point.

I can imagine but I dont want to...

Celtics probably are winning. Porzingis will have to stay injured for the west to have a chance.

Celtics are stacked but Kyrie AND Luka are big time big game shot makers, and they have some good role players and defensive role players.

Though I'm not sure I expect Dallas to get to the finals, but I think they will play the WCF tough.

Minnesota is blowing this.

[SunsRback4Good]

Nice comeback by Minnesota. The point lead with half a quarter remaining. Their defense is showing up limiting the nuggets to just 27 points in the 2nd half.

[Qwigglez]

Damn the Wolves are nasty. They got that edge. Mavs vs Wolves is going to be a fun series.

[SunsRback4Good]

Damn the Wolves are nasty. They got that edge. Mavs vs Wolves is going to be a fun series.

Would the Wolves beat the Nuggets if Bruce Brown never left?

[SunsRback4Good]

They just said this was the biggest comeback in game 7 history. (15 point deficit)

[sunskerr]

Well played from Minnesota