Who starts in the backcourt next year?

[StitchJones]

Should definitely be Bledsoe and Booker. Knight should be traded and you can't worry about what you gave up for him. You have to do what's best for the team now. Should you get lucky in the draft and get a top two pick, you could then have a young core to rival Minnesota. Booker, Ingram/Simmons, Len, Bledsoe... Trade Knight for a mid round pick and cap space then fill holes with good vets.

[Damkac]

But is it wise to trade injured player who has lowered value?

[LukasBMW]

If Booker doesn't start at SG, I will piss in a test tube and mail it to Rober Sarver labeled as "Gatorade"

[Gorilla Warfare]

Bledsoe/Booker/Durant/who cares/Len

Knight gets traded in the offseason, but will have to probably be shipped with the Wizards pick since everyone know Knight is muff cabbage...



One can dream.

[jcsunsfan]

Well there were already videos of him running and practicing, so I'm guessing yes. He just better stay healthy or we are in trouble. If he goes down again we will have to hope for one of those top 3 picks again.

Playing Bledsoe over 30 minutes next season would be stupid move. But sadly it won't suprise me if Suns are still desperate to make playoffs asap.
Sharing guards minutes between Bled, Book and Knight everyone can play 32 minutes. Some minutes will go to other players (Bogdan?) so no need to play Bledsoe +30 minutes. This would most probably lead to repeat of this season.

I think this is very doable. Knight has his shortcomings but I think he can be a great first option off the bench. Bledsoe shouldn't be getting over 30 minutes to the start the year but he should be getting close to that at least towards the all-star game.

I could see Booker with 30, Bled with 28, Knight with 25, and about 13 for Bogdan or Archie. Of course, injuries will happen, there will be a few more minutes to spread around. If Bogdan proves more useful and versatile than Knight, we will have to trade Knight.

[jcsunsfan]

If Booker doesn't start at SG, I will piss in a test tube and mail it to Rober Sarver labeled as "Gatorade"

I could easily see them starting Knight at the beginning of the year to up his trade value. They did it with Kieff in late January and February. So you might wait just a little before you. . .er. . .do what you said.

[Walt_Uoob]

Yep, I echo the others who say start Bledsoe and Booker and bring Knight off the bench. Knight as a 6th man running the offense would kind of put him in a situation like he had in MIL when he was running a not-so-talented team and racking up stats. And even though he's not a Nash-like distributor, Bled has a way of making others look good, so I'd also definitely want some of Knight's time to be playing the 2 next to Bled. So maybe 15 minutes of Knight running the point against other teams' bench units and 15 minutes of Knight playing next to Bled; that seems like the best way to build Knight's trade value and hopefully (I still do have hope for him) for his development.

But so much depends on the draft, off-season player movement, and the coaching search. If we end up with Simmons and a coach who wants to run the ball through him, maybe it actually would make sense to surround him with shooters like Knight and Booker, and let Bledsoe feast on bench units. If we draft a really long-term project, maybe we do start Bled/Knight/Booker as a way of tanking for another year.

But we all know what's actually going to happen: We'll draft Jamal Murray and start an all-Kentucky-guard lineup of Bled/Knight/Murray/Goodwin/Booker. That's in order of height btw, so Booker's our new starting C.

[GMATCallahan]

Yep, I echo the others who say start Bledsoe and Booker and bring Knight off the bench. Knight as a 6th man running the offense would kind of put him in a situation like he had in MIL when he was running a not-so-talented team and racking up stats. And even though he's not a Nash-like distributor, Bled has a way of making others look good, so I'd also definitely want some of Knight's time to be playing the 2 next to Bled. So maybe 15 minutes of Knight running the point against other teams' bench units and 15 minutes of Knight playing next to Bled; that seems like the best way to build Knight's trade value and hopefully (I still do have hope for him) for his development.

But so much depends on the draft, off-season player movement, and the coaching search. If we end up with Simmons and a coach who wants to run the ball through him, maybe it actually would make sense to surround him with shooters like Knight and Booker, and let Bledsoe feast on bench units. If we draft a really long-term project, maybe we do start Bled/Knight/Booker as a way of tanking for another year.

But we all know what's actually going to happen: We'll draft Jamal Murray and start an all-Kentucky-guard lineup of Bled/Knight/Murray/Goodwin/Booker. That's in order of height btw, so Booker's our new starting C.

... not so sure about the statement in bold, but Knight is certainly going to have to spend a certain amount of time using his quickness to run off down-screens before receiving the ball. He is too inefficient to dribble too much, if that statement makes any sense.

[Damkac]

It makes sense and I agree. Bled&Book should be main ballhandlers and Knight, Warren, Len should be main finishers.

[Qwigglez]

One thing that pissed me off about Bledsoe during the 14-15 season is he'd never hit Alex Len in the post. I know Len isn't a good post player, but whenever he'd post up Bledsoe would simply look elsewhere. So I'm not sure if Bledsoe makes everyone look good around him, but he is good at drawing defenders.

[Jarlaxle0204]

One thing that pissed me off about Bledsoe during the 14-15 season is he'd never hit Alex Len in the post. I know Len isn't a good post player, but whenever he'd post up Bledsoe would simply look elsewhere. So I'm not sure if Bledsoe makes everyone look good around him, but he is good at drawing defenders.

Hopefully after seeing Len more from the bench this year he'll have a little more trust for him next year and hopefully a mandate from Watson (who I'm hoping becomes coach) to feed Len.

[saintEscaton]

Until Len learns some basic counter moves and improves ball security he shouldn't demand it low. What Bledsoe really needs to do is to work on is executing tight pocket bounces passes to the rolling finisher

[TeamTragic]

Don't worry guys we are getting the #1 pick. Simmons/Ingram here we come