The Official 2025 Offseason Thread #5 Dog Days

[Ghost of Kleine]

Is Kuminga the most delusional player in the NBA?

He's definitely a better player in his head than he actually is

He could be a Jaylen Brown 2.0 ( perfect ceiling outcome) or he could more likely become a more athletic but less skilled Earl Clark if everything doesn't fall in his favor perfectly. Definitely not a max player even if on unrealized potential.

[dremill24]

Apparently Mark Williams is available to play in the opener but will be minutes restricted.....

So no one has explained to me why we're load managing him already?

Apparently, because of his concerning injury history, the suns approach is just really precautionary because they're trying to build up his strength and durability to try and make him more durable for a long season.

I get the rationale for wanting to make sure we get him right so he can be as healthy as possible over the long season but we also traded for him on 26 June, that's almost 4 months ago. As far as we know, he hasn't been nursing any injuries that made the news so we have to assume he's been largely healthy, yet after 3 months, he's played no preseason games, he was held out of 5 on 5s until recently and while it's great he's available for the 1st game of the season, he'll be minute restricted...so like we've had 4 months to get him right and we're still babying him into the early part of the season.

None of this inspires confidence

He's entirely a buy-low gamble (that we didn't actually buy that low ). All of the information presented so far indicates that he's a 40-50 game player. They're banking on him showing a level of availability that he has yet to show in his entire career, which means the odds say its a losing bet, though they took it anyway. They have to hit on some of these gambles to have any hope of improving this team. This isnt the gamble I'd have taken, but

[bwgood77]

Should I keep this thread going and turn it into Season Discussion and Speculation and take off #5 and dog days? Or start a new one?

[bwgood77]

Oops...just saw mkot started one....so I will sticky that one. I will leave this open a bit so people can reply but will unsticky.

[Sunsdeuce]

Point Book doesnt work. I think im stating the obvious but what I am a little angry about Booker is pulling a Kyler Murray right now. Dude is getting paid top 10
In the league but giving bottom 10 effort and leadership.

No one should be happy with him or defending him right now. If you are then ask yourself if you are a Booker fan or a Suns fan. A Suns fan would desperately want to trade him and effectively reset this thing and give this team a future.