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My thoughts on our current roster.

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Post#21 » by Saberestar » Thu Sep 9, 2010 2:56 pm

My prediction ( healthy everyone):

Steve Nash
13p, 9a. 30mpg

Goran Dragic
8p, 4a. 18mpg

J-Rich
19p, 5r. 33mpg

J-Chill
7p, 3r. 16mpg

Grant Hill
8p, 4r. 23mpg

Jared Dudley
10p, 4r. 24mpg

Hedo Turk
13p, 5r, 4a. 31mpg

H. Warrik
11p, 5r. 20mpg

Robin Lopez
10p, 8r. 25mpg

C. Frye
9p, 5r. 21mpg

TOTAL: Around 108-109 PPG, possibly the best offense for another year.
RECORD: 51-31 , SIXTH in the West.
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Post#22 » by bballno21 » Thu Sep 9, 2010 6:54 pm

I'd cut these 10 to max 230 combined, while Lawal is going to play 10mpg plus couple of carbage minutes to be played by Clark/Jennings(/Jones). We have so much quality players that there will be a lot of work to be done by Gentry. 3 for 1 trade by the deadline could happen.

Back to your stats:
- J-Rich won't play more than what he played last season. I see him somewhere between 29-31 as we're so stucked with SG/SF players.
- I don't see Dudley having PT as last season either. A bit closer to 20. Plus I don't believe he'll be in double digits at the end of 10/11. 7-8ppg seems much better to me.
- Lopez is playing 25mpg next season, but won't grab during that time 8 rebounds on regular basis.

...Childress on the other is going to spend a lot more PT than your 16mpg.

But I could be mistaken on every my point.
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Post#23 » by Saberestar » Thu Sep 9, 2010 7:58 pm

About Dudley, I think that he will play around 24 minutes per game because Gentry loves him and he will be the first replacement for Hill/Richardson.
It`s possible that J-Chill plays more than 16 minutes: Injuries, rest players, suspensions, etc......
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Post#24 » by bballno21 » Thu Sep 9, 2010 8:21 pm

Childress is spending more than 16mpg on the court. That's given. He's just got MLE type contract. And he's not that bad sign as was Marcus Banks back in the day. Josh is proven. If Gentry loves Dudley, he's going to love Childress as well. He's not that great shooter from beyond the arc, but is much better athlete and slasher. That's one of couple of things, that could save us from being just 3pt shooting team. We need more weapons like P'n'R with Robin, J-Rich posting up, ...etc. We just dealt our best slasher in Barbosa. But we've got another great one in Josh.

Dudley is high energy/everytime hustling defender with great shooting stroke from long range. The fact that he's fan favourite doesn't mean he's indispensable. I'd cry seeing him gone, but he's not going to play 150% of what's going to be given to Josh.
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Post#25 » by lilfishi22 » Thu Sep 9, 2010 9:02 pm

Dudley did earn a lot of minutes last season with his 3PT shooting, defense and hustle, but he was also aided by a lack of depth at the 3. He was the only man off the bench at the 3 for Hill. This season, he'll be playing behind Hill once more but now he'll be battling it out with Childress for back up minutes. Childress is guaranteed to play at least 20mpg but I'm expecting more.
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Post#26 » by DRK » Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:18 pm

I reckon our team is actually too deep. Pity the Suns jumped the gun and signed Warrick. the only thing Warrick will do is take minutes away from Lawal, and that is not something you want for your future starting PF.

Also, I see Dwayne Collins coming back in a couple of years time, meaning we again will be even deeper at the PF position.
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Post#27 » by lilfishi22 » Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:37 pm

I doubt we'd see Collins again. I think we'd ship his rights to another team before he comes back.
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Post#28 » by DRK » Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:55 pm

lilfishi22 wrote:I doubt we'd see Collins again. I think we'd ship his rights to another team before he comes back.


I doubt they ship him off without even having him attend one Suns training camp.
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