Our FO... Mo, Curly, and Larry... where's Shemp?

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He missed the value of frye to dragic / the team so maybe he's not even a basic analytics guy. Or even if he is and did spot it he's a fool either way.


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Not sure if this has been posted already but here's Bill Simmons on the Suns FO and Hornacek:

Phoenix Suns (39-40)

Tao of Dom: “Running ain’t freedom. You should know that.”

They turned last season’s delightfully entertaining, unexpectedly promising and precociously young run-and-gun Suns team into this season’s sullen, disjointed mess of a whatever-the-hell-happened-here. They turned Eric Bledsoe into a borderline max guy. They antagonized Goran Dragic by bringing in a third point guard, played him out of position for three months, took it personally when he bitched to the press, then panic-downgraded from Dragic (I voted him second-team All-NBA last season) to Brandon “You’re Gonna Have To Overpay Me So This Doesn’t Look Like a Total Disaster” Knight. They essentially flipped Dragic, Isaiah Thomas, Tyler Ennis, Miles Plumlee and that famously tasty Lakers pick (top-five protected in 2015, top-three protected in 2016 or 2017) for Knight and three non-lottery picks (Cleveland’s 2016 first-rounder and Miami’s 2017 and 2021 first-rounders).

Buried under everything: Jeff Hornacek’s mysterious free fall from “2014 Coach of the Year Candidate” to “Possessed by the Spirit of Vinny Del Negro.” No 2014-15 team blew more winnable games in dumber/unluckier/more inexplicable ways than the Suns. They were a 50-win team that somehow went .500. Then again, they STILL would have been a top-six seed in the East. Nail the lottery pick in June, sign Knight for a fair price and maybe they’re back in business. Stay positive, Suns fans. And definitely don’t read this footnote.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-n ... e-of-mind/

He also writes this footnote:

I can’t type this strongly enough: I absolutely HATE everything that Phoenix did. There’s just no way that the Suns are better off than they were 10 months ago. If you’re gonna deal Dragic, then keep Isaiah Thomas and that Lakers pick and don’t do the Knight deal. If you’re gonna deal Thomas, then just keep Dragic and the Lakers pick. But how do you end up with no Dragic, no Thomas and no Lakers pick? What the hell just happened?????

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-n ... e-of-mind/

IMO Simmons absolutely nailed this analysis.