Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose Suns Preview

[Frank Lee]

Sometimes I feel we have internal trolls hell bent on trading Bledsoe and/or Dragic.

Does anyone REALLY think that will happen during this upcoming season ?

I can concede a slight may be, but only if the return is someone like KLove.

Westbrook ? I can only assume UoA homers want him. Our strength should be our guard position with Goodwin getting some on the job training. Cant any one acknowledge some form of excitement knowing that AT ALL TIMES we will have one of Dragic or Bledsoe on the court ? And really, two of the three by adding Archie to the mix. I am pencilling in 90 minutes from that trio.


F-n fickle fan base here who can't seem to grasp or be satisfied what McDo and Hornacek are trying to create.

Ye of little faith.

[RunDogGun]

Sometimes I feel we have internal trolls hell bent on trading Bledsoe and/or Dragic.

Does anyone REALLY think that will happen during this upcoming season ?

I can concede a slight may be, but only if the return is someone like KLove.

Westbrook ? I can only assume UoA homers want him. Our strength should be our guard position with Goodwin getting some on the job training. Cant any one acknowledge some form of excitement knowing that AT ALL TIMES we will have one of Dragic or Bledsoe on the court ? And really, two of the three by adding Archie to the mix. I am pencilling in 90 minutes from that trio.


F-n fickle fan base here who can't seem to grasp or be satisfied what McDo and Hornacek are trying to create.

Ye of little faith.

UofA? I thought Westbrook went to UCLA. Goodwin!!

I totally agree about the fickleness of many fans here. I am really excited to see what Hornacek will do with a Dragic/Bledsoe back court. If Jeff is planning it like a KJ/Hornacek style, other than the sharpshooting part, I really like the idea. Now if Jeff can get better shooting out of the two, watch out.

[Frank Lee]

Dammit rundog... you got me again
I mixed him up with Bayless..... Sorry to you Mildcatters

[Ryu]

I don`t know where to put this scrimmage video so let it be here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqkE8O6Hf8A[/youtube]

Bledsoe is looking good and that Goodwin dunk at the end of the video looks nice.

[NaturalBuns]

I don`t know where to put this scrimmage video so let it be here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqkE8O6Hf8A[/youtube]

Bledsoe is looking good and that Goodwin dunk at the end of the video looks nice.

Kendall Marshall and Shannon Brown on that 2-1 fastbreak looked real solid as well

[Durins Baynes]

Bonner has negligible trade value (or even value period, he's an 11th man), but Corey Joseph has some promise. He's not going to net R.Jax though.

[bwgood77]

Sometimes I feel we have internal trolls hell bent on trading Bledsoe and/or Dragic.

Does anyone REALLY think that will happen during this upcoming season ?

I can concede a slight may be, but only if the return is someone like KLove.

Westbrook ? I can only assume UoA homers want him. Our strength should be our guard position with Goodwin getting some on the job training. Cant any one acknowledge some form of excitement knowing that AT ALL TIMES we will have one of Dragic or Bledsoe on the court ? And really, two of the three by adding Archie to the mix. I am pencilling in 90 minutes from that trio.


F-n fickle fan base here who can't seem to grasp or be satisfied what McDo and Hornacek are trying to create.

Ye of little faith.

If Goodwin plays a lot that means our team will be really really bad. I mean, I expect us to be really bad anyway, but he is the youngest kid in the nba and disappointed in college because he wasn't quite as ready as people expected to dominate against college competition. So what does he do? He goes pro.

Having said all that I am very excited for him on the team. I think he has talent that will grow with experience. It's not going to happen over night though. Bledsoe has never started and has struggled when he did as well. He may be a serviceable starter this year, but I am not sure he will be KJ 2.0, though of course I would like that.

[bwgood77]

Dammit rundog... you got me again
I mixed him up with Bayless..... Sorry to you Mildcatters

If you mixed up Westbrook and Bayless that makes total sense why you think our team will be super solid and don't seem to be knowledgeable about how good other teams and their players are.

[Frank Lee]

Whatever mildcat.
Perhaps if you subscribed to my NBA newsletter,
"Frank's Undeniable Common Knowledge Of Future Facts" you would think differently.


Super Solid ? I don't recall saying that, but then again, I'm a big fan of Gani Lawai and Archie Griffin.

[mybloodisorange]

Sometimes I feel we have internal trolls hell bent on trading Bledsoe and/or Dragic.

Does anyone REALLY think that will happen during this upcoming season ?

I can concede a slight may be, but only if the return is someone like KLove.

Westbrook ? I can only assume UoA homers want him. Our strength should be our guard position with Goodwin getting some on the job training. Cant any one acknowledge some form of excitement knowing that AT ALL TIMES we will have one of Dragic or Bledsoe on the court ? And really, two of the three by adding Archie to the mix. I am pencilling in 90 minutes from that trio.


F-n fickle fan base here who can't seem to grasp or be satisfied what McDo and Hornacek are trying to create.

Ye of little faith.

If Goodwin plays a lot that means our team will be really really bad. I mean, I expect us to be really bad anyway, but he is the youngest kid in the nba and disappointed in college because he wasn't quite as ready as people expected to dominate against college competition. So what does he do? He goes pro.

Having said all that I am very excited for him on the team. I think he has talent that will grow with experience. It's not going to happen over night though. Bledsoe has never started and has struggled when he did as well. He may be a serviceable starter this year, but I am not sure he will be KJ 2.0, though of course I would like that.

I'm sure Goodwin will get some decent minutes at some point because he needs alot of playing time to mature plus his young rookie mistakes will help fuel the tank. And if Dragic and Bledsoe can play side by side as envisioned that is one hell of an athletic defensive backcourt although they do give up size at the 2. Bledsoe's athletic ability gives me hope that bigger guards wont be able to post him up despite his only being 6'1....only time will tell. It will be fun watching it all play out!

[Never Fear 33 Is Here]

Whatever mildcat.
Perhaps if you subscribed to my NBA newsletter,
"Frank's Undeniable Common Knowledge Of Future Facts" you would think differently.


Super Solid ? I don't recall saying that, but then again, I'm a big fan of Gani Lawai and Archie Griffin.

I see what you did there.....

[bigfoot]

Simmons and Rose are just two talking heads. I went back and looked at the "experts" predictions in 2004-2005. They had the Suns pegged at the number 10 spot in the Western Conference ... http://www.nba.com/preview2004/west_forecast.html

Instead we ended up with the best record in the NBA.

We are certainly not the worst team in the West after watching these first two preseason games. This team is way too athletic to lose 60 games ... http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/95609 ... -standings