Sunsdeuce wrote:I like how the Suns are in a youth movement (again) but I don't like how it got to this point (again).
Ryan McDonough's continuous "Star" strike out is why we are back at this point again.
Ryan went after some big names like Blake and Millsap but they shunned us so it forced Ryan McDonough to go back to going young (again). This sounds exactly like the LMA ordeal all over again (is Ryan not learning his lessons?). This just shows he is not sticking to a clear plan. I think we all can agree we all just want a plan. This back and forward nonsense from Ryan is quite disturbing because it shows confusion, lack of organization, lack of a true plan.
I am to the point I have accepted that this team will not be good until new ownership/FO happens. I mean it is what it is, we have a bad FO. This is what happens to bad organizations. Going on a decade of no winning, no playoffs, and no signs of a plan to fix it.
Anyway, Ryan has had FOUR years to devise a plan and here we are today still getting shunned by "star" free agents. Ryan is the guy who is bragging about trading for a disgruntled superstar (and he has had chances to do so) but here we are with nothing to show for with all the assets he has.
Booker and Josh Jackson seem to be the only sure pieces to be here for the next 4 years. All the other players are iffy at best. Len has been a failure (but that's mostly on Earl Watsons bad coaching), Bender was a huge disappointment, Warren has been so up and down, don't know what to think, Chriss had a decent if not good year but nothing to make anyone believe he has star point (yet). Chandler is a year or 2 from retirement, Bledsoe is just a poor floor general and is not a good "PG", decent player but not PG, plus his contract will be up soon, knight has been a colossal failure of a trade. So while Ryan has done a few decent things, he has yet to come through on his boasts and has yet to display a clear plan.
Ryan please get a plan and stick to it. Don't have a plan for a a day then change it the next day then change it the next day then change it the next day. That's not how successful operations work.
I've been like a broken record in Suns fan land throughout the McD tenure. I've repeatedly stated that if you examine the actions of the FO rather than the words, you realize that the plan is actually consistent, and that the plan has been - the entire time - to rebuild through the draft. I think we knew that when we signed IT, we would have to deal Dragic or IT or both unless the trio transformed the league. In other words, I think we wanted to force ourselves to make moves. We thought we were acquiring long-term value in Knight and moving - at worst - sideways with the LAL/MIAMIA pick swap.
I think we traded Marcus Morris not with the idea that we would use that cap space to sign LMA; rather, I think the LMA pursuit was an excuse to deal Marcus for next-to-nothing, with the idea that this would "force" us to trade Markieff. It nearly backfired, but we ended up getting the #13 for that. Had we not signed the Morris twins and IT, we would have had none of the assets with which we eventually traded for Marquese.
I think we acquired Bled with one eye on the trade market from the start. I think we acquired Chandler believing that the contract would be valuable in trade after a year or two (and with the intention that it would compromise Len's value, as it has). I don't think we expect the center position to fall into such ill repute.
Even going back to the "failed" Lebron chase - if we were really angling to win now, we would have signed Channing Frye. He and Dragic formed the core of that 48 win season. We did not re-sign Channing because despite the extra wins, we did not think his contract would be an asset. All of this is consistent.
The only teams that have acquired more draft assets than us during Ryan's tenure are Philly and Boston. Certainly no WC team has gone so far in this direction, and it's been this way from the start.
THE ISSUE HERE is that fans - and especially fans and sportswriters focused on multiple sports - take the narratives that are fed to them and come to the quickest conclusions possible. It's just like politics or other competitive endeavors: you don't tell your competition the truth. You try to get people to believe things that are not true. Whether that's to sell tickets to fans or players to other teams. LOOK AT THE RESULTS. Does everyone really think that having all of Ulis-Booker-Reed-Jackson-Warren-DJJ-Bender-Chriss-Williams-Len occurred by happenstance? That we weren't actually angling to rebuild with youth, that it just happened? Come on.
Extend McD.