impulsenine wrote:GD2 wrote:Oh and call me crazy but
You're crazy.
I'm getting pretty damn tired of this Sarver hate. There is a ton of stuff you could criticize about his tenure, but we are in this situation because Amare left - and Amare was given a
very fair offer. Trading for Turk (like the Shaq trade) was high-risk, high-reward, and they didn't work out. But bitching him out because he was too cheery?
Shaq trade WAS high-risk high-reward. We needed a post player at the time. We needed some size. As Steve Kerr said so himself, the trade would either make him look like a genius or a moron. I wholeheartedly agree. It just didn't work out that time, and really most of the blame should have gone to Terry Porter.
Trading for Hedo? His contract is a joke. His play (prior to the glorious return to Orlando) is abysmal at best. We didn't even ask for a 1st rounder in return. We were already overloaded with wings and so so desperately need a decent post player. That trade is a big fat joke. There is no way you can justify that. "OH HEY WE SHOULD GRAB HEDO SO WE CAN OVERLOAD ON THIS ONE POSITION OR MAYBE MAKE HIM PLAY IN THE POST WHERE HE'LL GET ABUSED." WTF? Seriously?
People like this haven't been Suns fans long enough to know that, from time to time, your team is gonna suck (insert the exception for the Lakers here, and all related conspiracy theories). Yes, Sarver is trying to make some money - why? Because when you're looking at BIG money, that BIG money goes both ways.
With a huge, multimillion dollar organization, going just a "teeny bit" into the red means going $10,000,000 into the red. Then you lose stuff like Suns.com, Destination Phoenix '09 getting a red carpet, open media practices. And you get even more sh-tty ads for Taco Bell.
Don't own a team if you're expecting to make money. Period. 1/3 of the teams are making losses. Orlando Magic's owner is just throwing money into water, knowing that he'll not going to get anything back. Mark Cuban knows as well. Basically, we made it this far over the last few years because we were lucky enough to have this one player who's named Steve Nash.
Has he made some horrid decisions? HELL yeah. Were they made in good faith? YES. And that's what you babies are not giving him, when you post adolescent bull like this:
RunSunRun wrote:Slowly creeping into Donald Sterling territory, just saying.
KLEON wrote:IF SARVER FEELS NASH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PLAYER HE SHOULD GIVE NASH WHAT HE WANTS, A DAMN PF
WHO!? Why, I just happen to have Dwight Howard and LeBron James UP MY BUTT. They tell me they want to sign for the vet minimum. We should do that.
/rant
You know there's this one thing call free agency period. And you know there are some UFA who happen to be PFs last year. Oh and how the T'Wolves got Beasley? Somebody remind me that.
Bottom line: Not re-signing Amar'e is understandable. Not finding a replacement in that position and instead fill up roster spots with wing players is not acceptable.
You're just heartless for wanting to watch Steve Nash end his career with this team of (mostly) scrubs and an ownership which really isn't an ownership.
Btw, Sarver does sound over optimistic even considering it's for the press. He could have been more subtle.
As for this one:
reeks of "new fan who's been spoiled by a VERY long winning streak."
I'll just have to say that it's pretty frustrating to watch teams which made a huge playoff run trying to get better (uhh, not Orlando Magic?) whereas we, on the other hand, send close to half of the rotation players packing bags right after our (so-called) franchise player, who is not treated like one, went public and asked the ownership to keep the team intact.
*ZING*
every time Sarver or Babby talk to the media it ends with polishing Steve Nash's knob in one way or another as if Suns fans are all brainless idiots who will be satisfied with "slurp Steve Nash slurp slurp" as the answer to all of their questions. I personally find it to be an insult to the fans' intelligence, but the old people who still buy tickets and put money in Sarver's pocket apparently are brainless idiots who are satisfied with "Steve Nash is incredible" as the answer to every question.
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