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SSOL wrote:I wouldn't trade him. Trade IT, put Drgaic back where he was last year and see what happens.
JTrain wrote:Kerrsed wrote:It didnt make it more difficult, jsut the opposite. Teams thought we would keep him if we didnt get an young all-star type player and a 1st in return for him. That limited the teams right there. Him giving a list of 10 teams and then leaking all that info up, opened the opportunity to some teams who thought they didnt stand a chance at getting him. With Dragic value being so low now, every team has a shot. He f**ked us to drop his value and force our hand at trading him.
But by dropping his trade value, he is risking not getting traded at all. Which, at this point especially, would be terrible for him.
If they wanted to force a trade, they should have just given us the list of teams and said, there is 0% chance we are re-signing here, so either figure out a trade or you'll end up getting nothing. This would force us to trade him before the deadline, even if it meant taking scraps in the waning hours before the deadline.
I don't see any benefit whatsoever to them leaking anything to the media. Again, if the Suns were told he was absolutely not re-signing, they would eventually open all avenues to get some trade done.
TASTIC wrote:SSOL wrote:I wouldn't trade him. Trade IT, put Drgaic back where he was last year and see what happens.
That's my thoughts.
Last year Bled/Dragic crushed it together.
More ball-handling, the front office enforcing they want him there long term and a max offer will surely smooth over the trust issues he's brought up?
I'd give him $85m over 5, less annually but an extra year/$5m than the Lakers can offer.
Call his bluff essentially.
Bledsoe and dragic didn't "crush it" last year. The Suns won 48 games. That's 7 games over .500. Not exactly "crushing it". The combo worked decently but it wasn't great.
bigsportsfan2 wrote:Bledsoe and dragic didn't "crush it" last year. The Suns won 48 games. That's 7 games over .500. Not exactly "crushing it". The combo worked decently but it wasn't great.
DirtyDez wrote:Sunsdeuce wrote:Well at least I have some good news:
@Cardschatter: Good news from Indy RT @AdamSchefter: Cardinals and Larry Fitzgerald closing in on multi-year deal that enable him to finish career in AZ.
Larry is being underutilized yet still staying. That's my dude right there...
Saberestar wrote:
Exactly.
Players are people, with feelings and they want to have a rol and see themselves like an important part of the team. McDonough thought that they were "assets ", happy to be on the bench waiting to be traded for an Star. It si not working that way.
We have too many good players or prospects players, we have to cut our roster or have real bench players at the end of the bench (ala Burke or Shavlik ) because players like Goodwin or Bullock will be unhappy very soon.
Isaiah Thomas signing was an asset...and it was a clear and epic fail.
Sunsdeuce wrote:@ESPNSteinLine: ESPN sources say Celtics emerging as contender on the outside for Goran Dragic in trade with Phoenix
@ESPNSteinLine: Celtics have the assets to jump into Dragic talks and, like Houston and Sacramento, also have the guts to trade for a free agent-to-be
RunDogGun wrote:bigsportsfan2 wrote:Bledsoe and dragic didn't "crush it" last year. The Suns won 48 games. That's 7 games over .500. Not exactly "crushing it". The combo worked decently but it wasn't great.
What are you nodding about? Deuce doesn't even realize that the two weren't together the whole season, by using the full season win stats instead of the record they had together.
Sunsdeuce wrote:This should be a lesson for those of you who thought/believed dragic "enjoyed" playing with bledsoe. Never believe any lip service professional sports players give the media. Believe what your eyes tell you.
Goran was happiest when bledsoe was hurt and that's when Goran was the "lone" man at point.
