The 2016 Offseason Thread

sunsbum · Post #961 » by **sunsbum** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:47 am

Qwigglez wrote:I don't question the Suns front office for not signing Amare to a one year deal, but they could have at least given him a one-day contract so he can retire with us. We need to surround our youth with good mentors and quality veterans, and I don't think Amare fits that mold so I understand not letting him around our youngsters.

you think they didnt offer him a 1 day contract to retire with us? Dont kid yourself, of course that would have been on the table. Amare got butthurt and "stuck it to us".

Post #962 » by **bwgood77** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:58 am

sunsbum wrote:
Qwigglez wrote:I don't question the Suns front office for not signing Amare to a one year deal, but they could have at least given him a one-day contract so he can retire with us. We need to surround our youth with good mentors and quality veterans, and I don't think Amare fits that mold so I understand not letting him around our youngsters.

you think they didnt offer him a 1 day contract to retire with us? Dont kid yourself, of course that would have been on the table. Amare got butthurt and "stuck it to us".

I'm guessing it wasn't. He probably didn't ask for a one day contract but a year, and probably didn't ask for it from the Knicks either but asked for a one year contract, and they probably offered him the one day contract to retire there. I doubt he was calling up asking for one day contracts.

sunsbum · Post #963 » by **sunsbum** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 4:19 am

Of course he wasnt calling asking for 1 day contracts but if amare wanted to sign one with phoenix why would they say no? they wouldnt.

TeamTragic · Post #964 » by **TeamTragic** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:27 am

LukasBMW wrote:We made the right decision not to give him a second max contract.
We made the right decision not to let him end his career here.
We made the wrong decision by not trading him at the end of 06-07 when his value was at it's peak.

We could have moved him in the summer of 07 for Garnet. We could have moved him in 08. Instead we let him walk in 09 for nothing. Now THAT was stupid.

King4Day · Post #965 » by **King4Day** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:31 pm

LukasBMW wrote:We made the right decision not to give him a second max contract.
We made the right decision not to let him end his career here.
We made the wrong decision by not trading him at the end of 06-07 when his value was at it's peak.

We could have moved him in the summer of 07 for Garnet. We could have moved him in 08. Instead we let him walk in 09 for nothing. Now THAT was stupid.

We couldn't move him that summer. From what I recall, both the Hawks, nor the Wolves, wanted Amar'e due to concerns about his knees. Marion was the sticking point. He didn't want to sign an extension with Boston.

kennydorglas · Post #966 » by **kennydorglas** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:32 pm

sunsbum wrote:
Qwigglez wrote:I don't question the Suns front office for not signing Amare to a one year deal, but they could have at least given him a one-day contract so he can retire with us. We need to surround our youth with good mentors and quality veterans, and I don't think Amare fits that mold so I understand not letting him around our youngsters.

you think they didnt offer him a 1 day contract to retire with us? Dont kid yourself, of course that would have been on the table. Amare got butthurt and "stuck it to us".

Yeah, It's kinda obvious that our 1 day contract was in the table... Amare just wanted a farewell tour and got snubbed.
Good for us.

Post #967 » by **Qwigglez** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 1:35 pm

I think Sarver would have done a 1 day contract. I think Amare wanted the 1 year deal, we didn't offer it to him so he wanted to throw Sarver a big eff you.

phnart · Post #968 » by **phnart** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 2:33 pm

I can't wait until there is something better to talk about on here.

NTB · Post #969 » by **NTB** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:22 pm

Watch on YouTube

SideSwipe · Post #970 » by **SideSwipe** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:48 pm

NTB wrote:

Watch on YouTube

The variety of offense, shooting, driving, fade-aways, mid-range, floaters, deeep threees- the ball handling, the pick and roll chemistry with Chandler and Len, the lane navigation, escapism, the face-up blocks, the run down blocks...the leadership, the poise, the maturity. I am very much looking forward to seeing who he becomes as a player.

darealjuice · Post #971 » by **darealjuice** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 8:18 pm

Watch on YouTube

Thibs, Klay, Pop, and Boogie talkin about Book at Team USA

NTB · Post #972 » by **NTB** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:03 am

Read on Twitter

Is this Suns-related or USA-related?

Fo-Real · Post #973 » by **Fo-Real** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:23 am

NTB wrote:

Watch on YouTube

Really good to hear others teams announcers talk about the kid. Not just homerisim, we have a good one brewing!

Post #974 » by **bwgood77** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:45 am

NTB wrote:

Read on Twitter

Is this Suns-related or USA-related?

Probably Suns, and I'm thinking maybe he hopes to happily surprise fans instead of set up false expectations.

LukasBMW · Post #975 » by **LukasBMW** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 1:09 am

I hope TJ is all healed up and ready to kick ass in training camp. This should be his breakout season.

If we fire on all cylinders, we could really surprise some people.

NTB · Post #976 » by **NTB** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 1:17 am

Read on Twitter

NTB · Post #977 » by **NTB** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 1:56 am

After reading this interview, I hope we keep Jenkins around.

Frank Lee · Post #978 » by **Frank Lee** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:38 am

sunskerr wrote:Would have been nice to have Amare back for one more go but he's not better at this point than any of our bigger guys who look like they're in line for serious playing time (Dudley, Len and Chandler). Then we still have to find space for Bender and Chriss somehow. When I say "would have been nice", I really do mean that. He was such a big part of our recent history.

'of our bigger guys' and Dudley do not belong in the same sentence. Lets not kid ourselves about our newly acquired powerless forward. I do agree, no need/room for Stat anywhere on this roster. Plus it has hit its nostalgic allotment

Nice pick up by the Spurs .... they look to have done a nice job in their recent shuffle.

Post #979 » by **bwgood77** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:26 am

NTB wrote:

Read on Twitter

That was a great interview. We better keep him on that deal. Without a doubt keep him ahead of Goodwin. Not only is he a better player, but he really seems like he is a big addition to the locker room and would really help guys like Bender and Chriss.

garrick · Post #980 » by **garrick** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:24 am

Gorilla Warfare wrote:I've had interactions with Amare on several occasions at my last job and that has a major effect on my thoughts on him having his jersey retired with the Suns.

He deserves nothing from us and I think he's a terrible person. He was nothing without Nash.

That could be farther from the truth.

His first season with the Knicks he really displayed that he could score in a variety of ways but unfortunately his knees just couldn't handle all that stress so this nonsense that he was nothing without Nash is bollocks.

We also had Hakeem Warrick who could do nothing but dunk and he failed miserably as an Amare replacement so it's not like Amare was nothing without Nash.

Remember that having Amare meant teams could not solely clamp down on Nash because they had to respect the threat that Amare and Marion posed if they were to leave them open.