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Dragic, Keef, IT, Knight and now Bledsoe. It doesn't matter who is wrong or right, it looks bad.

Players don't want to come here anymore. That's a huge problem and a punch in the gut to life long Suns fans who remember when Jerry Colangelo had players lining up on his door step because he was so well respected.

While Jerry Colangelo had zero tolerance for BS (Barkley, Horry, Penny, etc) and was not afraid to trade players and remind them who was in charge, the BIG difference I see between the Colangelo's and Sarver/McDonough is that Colangelo kept his word.

I do not believe Ryan McDonough should be fired. I love his creativity. I love his no BS attitude. I also love his draft record. But going forward he needs to learn from his mistakes and realize that you cannot stack players just as assets. Hopefully this will not be a problem going forward because between draft picks and young players, we have enough assets and prospects. From here on out, he needs to focus on bringing in players who fill needs.

Sarver needs to take a backseat. He needs to shut the **** up, stay away from the lockerroom, and let the coach and GM do their jobs. It would also be nice if Sarver kept his mouth shut at owners meetings and didn't get us blacklisted by David Stern.

Step 1:
Keep Booker happy. Max him without issue.

Step 2:
Keep enough vets around to keep young players in mind.

Step 3:
Start making moves knowing that your #2 and #3 positions are covered with Booker/TJ/JJ. Look to draft a 5 or a 1 this year. Or maybe a 4 given that Bender and Chriss are still question marks.

Step 4:
Don't wait until the last second to make trades or moves. Anticipate roster logjams before they happen. A great example of this would be potentially trading either Chriss or Bender and picks for the right young 4 or 5. Don't wait until we have Chriss/Bender/Len and maybe Ayton + another young big fighting for time with none of them really getting a chance to show off (like Okafor). If the right opportunity comes along to pair a legit young 4/5 with Booker/TJ, you do it even if it means raiding your asset box. We need to start thinking: 4 green houses equals a red hotel.

Step 5:
We need to avoid problem players and problem agents. We need to build a team culture like the Spurs which is hard to do in today's NBA Diva era. Still avoiding even talented players who demand control (Lebron) or players who have ridiculous agents (like Rich Paul) is necessary. Anyone who we draft or trade for who signs with Rich Paul or becomes a problem in the lockerroom needs to get shipped out fast before the media can pick up on it.

Step 6:
The tanking stops this year. If we cannot snag a guy like KP/Myles Turner/AD/KAT for Chriss + draft picks (highly unlikely), then we need to take the best 4 or 5 available as our last prize lottery selection. Then we need to bring in vets on phatty golden parachute short term contracts to keep us in the playoff mix, keep spirits high, and give our young guys the best chance to develop.

Step 7: While consolidating picks/assets for high potential young players is a smart move, we need to make sure that we don't completely trade all of our picks and shut off our pipline of picks like we did in the Nash era. Making a trade of Chriss + our #18 pick + a Miami pick or the Bucks pick is fine, but trading our own #1 pick 3 years in a row is a big NoNo. Same with selling our picks,.

Step 8: Gag Sarver and keep him locked in the basement of his 25,000sf PV home.

Just do not talk badly to the press about a player. The rest is agent manipulation that cannot be helped. Players are constantly trying to manipulate themselves into new situations. Kyrie and Paul George both did it this summer. No amount of player accommodation will stop it.


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Hire a new front office and let them hire a good coaching staff.

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Simple, develop 2 All-Stars and nobody cares about who is in the back office.

Mulhollanddrive wrote:Simple, develop 2 All-Stars and nobody cares about who is in the back office.

Your management team matters as much as your players who are playing for your team. As an outsider, all teams will have their crosses to bear. In the Suns case, those issues have been address in this thread. If your management don't run their team as organized and efficient as necessary, there will be breakdowns that will run from top to bottom. If those issues continue to run rampart and fester, disorganization, in-fighting, miscommunication, mismanagement will take place.

Imagine at your place of work, you work around these issues with employees and management daily. If your manager or management team have not done anything to resolve any internal issues between either side, what does it say about your management team to their lack or efforts to run a ship? What message you are sending to your employees? That perhaps your value as an employee doesn't matter much so as long as the bottom line is being met?