Hoopsworld Suns Season Predictions

JohnVancouver · Post #1 » by **JohnVancouver** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:02 pm

http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=13849

Not much we haven't said or read elsewhere - the experts are pessimistic; consensus is 3rd in the Pacific, maybe a playoff team.

hunterxaz · Post #2 » by **hunterxaz** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:31 pm

I can't believe people don't think the Suns are a lock for the playoffs. They'll be in semis at least, hopefully the WCF and Finals. They're contenders still. Nash, Amare, Hill, J-Rich, Barbosa? Killer team!!!

Jdiddy701 · Post #3 » by **Jdiddy701** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:17 pm

3rd in pacific? Who's going on top of us, except the Lakers? I hope they aint thinkin about the Clippers.

DirtyDez · Post #4 » by **DirtyDez** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:02 pm

hunterxaz wrote:I can't believe people don't think the Suns are a lock for the playoffs. They'll be in semis at least, hopefully the WCF and Finals. They're contenders still. Nash, Amare, Hill, J-Rich, Barbosa? Killer team!!!

Dude we're one of the softest teams in the West. We can't play D or rebound, our offense alone can make us a 6th seed at best. Get over it

Post #5 » by **Qwigglez** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:11 pm

SMH.
Oh well. I think its good the Suns are underrated.

nashrambler13 · Post #6 » by **nashrambler13** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:32 pm

Jdiddy701 wrote:3rd in pacific? Who's going on top of us, except the Lakers? I hope they aint thinkin about the Clippers.

seriously...

the kings? with that team, not in a million years

the warriors? ther is no way they are better than the suns right now.

the clippers? its actually pretty close, but:

Nash and JRich are better than bdiddy and eric gordon/maggette
hill is better than thorton
as of right now, amare is better than griffin
frye is < or equal to camby. completely different games.

the clips are talented, but not as much as the suns. in a couple of years? probably. right now? no.

Post #7 » by **Qwigglez** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:24 pm

nashrambler13 wrote:
Jdiddy701 wrote:3rd in pacific? Who's going on top of us, except the Lakers? I hope they aint thinkin about the Clippers.

seriously...

the kings? with that team, not in a million years

the warriors? ther is no way they are better than the suns right now.

the clippers? its actually pretty close, but:

Nash and JRich are better than bdiddy and eric gordon/maggette
hill is better than thorton
as of right now, amare is better than griffin
frye is < or equal to camby. completely different games.

the clips are talented, but not as much as the suns. in a couple of years? probably. right now? no.

The Clips don't have Maggette lol.
Suns are second best in Pacific. Not even close.

MaryvalesFinest · Post #8 » by **MaryvalesFinest** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:57 pm

Third? Now that's crazy talk. Right now the Suns are a lock for second with the possibility of even being the best team in the pacific. Remember last year they still won like 46 with all the changes that happened, the drama and with the team tanking a few games to get Porter fired. No reason why they can't win 10-15 more games this season, much better team this year than last year.

nashrambler13 · Post #9 » by **nashrambler13** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:28 pm

dangit they dont have maggette... he was with them for all those years- forgot he left.

Post #10 » by **lilfishi22** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:37 am

3rd in the Pacific? They are probably thinking Warriors for 2nd. If they can get their off court issues together and play with some chemistry the Warriors could be dangerous enough to go for the 8th spot.

I think we can be a playoff team but we'll need contributions from our young players. We'll need them especially if we want to keep out vets as fresh as possible to make some noise in the playoffs, which is unlikely if we are 8th.

hunterxaz wrote:I can't believe people don't think the Suns are a lock for the playoffs. They'll be in semis at least, hopefully the WCF and Finals. They're contenders still. Nash, Amare, Hill, J-Rich, Barbosa? Killer team!!!

You really don't know what constitutes a good team do you? This team is barely a playoff team and you're talking about WCF and Finals?

Austin · Post #11 » by **Austin** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:19 pm

they gotta be thinking the clips... there's no way they jump like 40 more wins this year with the addition of Griffin...

Post #12 » by **Qwigglez** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:15 pm

I like how they discredit the Suns even though the Suns as a franchise has always been pretty successful in terms of winning games, yet they give a team like the Clippers, who have consistently been in the top 10 draft picks every year for the past 20 years all this hype because they got the number one draft choice again. SMH. These so called "analysis" are terrible.

Post #13 » by **Miklo** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:01 pm

Yeah the Clips are still pretty bad. Blake Griffin? That's fine, you got a good rookie who will probably get pretty much a green light so great development opportunity for him. But BDiddy is really bad, terrible person to run an offense. A couple young guys who are pretty good, and Camby - how old is Camby right now? I won a bet last year because Camby played less than 70 games...and would more than make that bet again.

-SDU- · Post #14 » by **-SDU-** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:36 pm

hunterxaz wrote:I can't believe people don't think the Suns are a lock for the playoffs. They'll be in semis at least, hopefully the WCF and Finals. They're contenders still. Nash, Amare, Hill, J-Rich, Barbosa? Killer team!!!

You're crazy man

anything can happen but their claims are
closer to what I think will happen than your predictions

aIvin adams · Post #15 » by **aIvin adams** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:01 pm

of course its been a while since analysts said the suns would be bad, but i dont remember the last time i thought the suns were being underrated.

i def think so now. whens the season opener ive posted like 10 times on rgm today and its not 5 am yet.

Never Fear 33 Is Here · Post #16 » by **Never Fear 33 Is Here** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:52 pm

-SDU- wrote:
hunterxaz wrote:I can't believe people don't think the Suns are a lock for the playoffs. They'll be in semis at least, hopefully the WCF and Finals. They're contenders still. Nash, Amare, Hill, J-Rich, Barbosa? Killer team!!!

You're crazy man

anything can happen but their claims are
closer to what I think will happen than your predictions

I have said this in another thread, but I am expecting the Suns to be better than a 1st round exit this season. Not sure that they will go further than that, but I still think we have a good enough team to get to the second round.

nevetsov · Post #17 » by **nevetsov** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:59 pm

Amen, you'd be foolish to ever write off a healthy Nash & Amare combo.

Frank Lee · Post #18 » by **Frank Lee** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:32 pm

ah....sit back and enjoy the optimism...

for the next few weeks, we all can bask in the may bes, what ifs, I hopes and I thinks.....

then the Toldyas and what-were-we-thinkings surface as we grind it out for the yr.

We are going to have to condense the learning curve and get into the playoffs ... and it would surely be better to be the 4, 5, 6 seed than 7 or 8.

From the looks of things, LA and SA should be 1-2.....

It aint easy being us. A fan membership should include some purple and orange thumbs screws. Atleast the boys checked in early and have been hoopin now for a couple weeks. I think (you see, I just tossed one out there) our conditioning will set us apart from many teams.

RUN448