hollywood6964 wrote:bwgood77 wrote:hollywood6964 wrote:You've been high on him. From the start.
That's great that you're glad. If only for your enjoyment. Because I don't care.
Also when did I say I hope he fails? In fact I said I hope he looks good so we can trade him. He's just a player I don't like, nothing personal. Rather see him home if we can get something for him.
And I didn't say all season, only one half of one game that he's been decent. I'm talking in the now.
I just don't understand why any Suns fan wouldn't have an innate investment in all of our player's success, so a strange comment.
I suppose I may be a little bit higher on Chriss than most, but that's not hard around here. I'm certainly not higher on him than any of our other young lottery picks, so that's a strange statement, but I think many make final judgements on extremely young players early. I think he does potentially have quite a bit of upside if his focus is in the right place.
He's been disappointing this year, but I'm glad he is looking good today, other than the fact it might hurt our tank if we win.
There's others that have been high on him as well. Although most have been jumping on the bender bandwagon. For a top 5 pick, he's been underwhelming as well.
I try to look at it objectively, best I can. I'm high on Jackson, all star on the making. I've been high on Booker since day one as well, borderline superstar in the making.
I was one that thinks Payton trade was not optimal, he'll account for a couple wins or so, today being one of them if we pull this out, that will knock us out of the top pick positioning. Possible rental, etc, n it just looks like a "why did we do that" at the end of the season. And there's been an overwhelming majority that have been high on that trade as well. I'm just looking at the risk/reward potential, and I'm not liking it. Same as I look at picks like bender n especially Chriss, probabilities of proper return on such high picks just doesn't look to promising.
I won't disagree that Bender and Chriss have both been underwhelming, and the longer that continues, the chance for their success diminishes.
Yeah, I loved both the Booker and Jackson picks and they look great, despite Jackson's slow start to the season.
I somewhat agree with what you said about the Payton trade, though it didn't cost much to get him and will give us a look as to whether or not he's worth keeping around as a backup. Of course he may add wins, but hasn't really yet, considering the fact that we only beat Memphis since we got him, but yeah, he will be part of the reason if we win today.
