What Is the Most Disappointing Thing About this Season?

Post #21 » by **ATTL** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:47 pm

I expected the record to be bad, i was expecting the sophomores to actually improve this year

Damkac · Post #22 » by **Damkac** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:54 pm

bwgood77 wrote:Surprised more people didn't choose our starting point guards this season.

Situation with Bledsoe was irritating but I'm glad he finally got traded. I prefer MIL pick than another season of good stats with bad efficiency and defense from him probably ending with giving him overpayed contract. It's bad Suns couldn't replace him during the season with anyone good but it's more important to find a starting PG this offseason.

Generally it is very disappointing that after so many years of rebuild we still need starting PG, PF and C.

NTB · Post #23 » by **NTB** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:59 pm

Read on Twitter

Welp, that's disappointing.

Christine-In-AZ · Post #24 » by **Christine-In-AZ** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:49 pm

1. Chriss. He had a very nice stretch from Christmas thru January last year. More often than not during that period he made the right pass, his defensive rotations weren't bad and played under control. This season 80-90% of the time he's been a mess in all departments. So immature ...yeah I know he's just 20, but his lack of focus and a derailing wont to make the "wow" play over the solid/correct play is frustrating. Still time, but my doubts now far out weigh my hopes for him.

2. Bender. I'm still very much on Bender Island, but his overall development was quite disappointing. His defensive progress was horrible to me. Still think he's going to be a solid all tool player, but the road to its fruition, is going to be longer than I thought.

3. Ulis. I was never really on the Ulis bandwagon, but he was far less effective than he I thought he'd be. It seems like he's shooting a medicine rather than a basketball on his jump shots.

Still subscribing to the timeline. Behind where I'd hoped they'd be, and I want a completely new coaching and player development staff for next season.

Hesh · Post #25 » by **Hesh** » Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:23 pm

I wanna vote Chriss and Bender since they're the two options available that are most disappointing. But the very most disappointing thing about this season for me is the coach/system or lack-thereof

Mjee · Post #26 » by **Mjee** » Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:01 pm

Bender and Chriss are the most disappointing by far. They have no real future in phx and will not be part of the next great suns team

nevetsov · Post #27 » by **nevetsov** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 12:59 am

The Bledsoe fiasco.

LV-Suns · Post #28 » by **LV-Suns** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 6:33 am

nevetsov wrote:The Bledsoe fiasco.

This. We were offered Mudiay and the pick that turned into Donovan Mitchell for Bledsoe over the summer, but we let this spill into the season.

Damkac · Post #29 » by **Damkac** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:18 am

Even if Suns would have done that trade it doesn't means they would also pick Mitchell.

handsome salary · Post #30 » by **handsome salary** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:25 pm

Most disappointing thing? If the Suns don't land a real game changer in this years draft. If they draft a mediocre player, get a ping-pong ball outside of being able to get a great player or screw up the coaching staffing all the suffering of the 50th anniversary season is going to be multiplied next year.

It sucked watching from the first game on historic lows all season. Especially when they trotted out players and clips from successful years.

jcsunsfan · Post #31 » by **jcsunsfan** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:54 pm

Bender and Chriss. What's frustrating about both of them is that they have the bodies and the talent. Every NBA fan who has ever played competitive basketball at any level looks at those guys and says, "Dude, if I had your body and your skills, I would be an all-star" and they are probably right.

King4Day · Post #32 » by **King4Day** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:37 pm

I put 'other'. The slow/lack of development. I was really scared that we busted on Jackson until recently.
Whatever coach we get this summer, he BETTER be an excellent player developer.

darealjuice · Post #33 » by **darealjuice** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:41 pm

Our point guard situation was very disappointing to me. Bledsoe quit on the team before the season even started and led us to one of the most embarrassing 3 game stretches in Suns history. Our stop gaps were all bad. Payton has been even worse than expected after a somewhat encouraging start. Ulis took a massive step back this year. Point Booker still has potential, but we don't have the roster to do it right now.

Bender and Chriss were very disappointing. Quese was the bigger disappointment for me because I believed in him after he performed above expectations his rookie year, and he followed it by coming to SL clearly out of playing shape and cutting his production in half. That's not even going into disciplinary/effort issues and his bad body language on the court. Bender's been very disappointing of late too, but at least we've seen some flashes this year and improvement in his shooting from last year. I'm not ready to give up on either, but if they're not making visible steps next year it'll be tough to stay optimistic with them.

Record doesn't bother me much, it was inevitable after trading Bledsoe without an immediate return. I don't enjoy losing at all, but I'd probably rather have a top 3 pick and the Milwaukee pick than have the 9th pick and have to pay Bledsoe anyways. Injuries likely had little effect on the season, although a healthy Reed this year would have been good for development.

I can still find optimism in this year though. The negative attention and coaching carousel of the last few years appears to have forced Sarver's hand into opening the checkbook on a real coach this offseason for the first time ever. If we nail our pick then we can move forward with a strong core of Booker, JJ, and our draft pick this year to build around long-term. We have plenty of assets and the ability to create cap space to start filling out this roster. We should be able to start our climb out of the gutter with a good coaching hire, a strong draft, and a few veterans that contribute to winning through FA and trades.

dmastro32 · Post #34 » by **dmastro32** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:30 pm

1. Inconsistent playing time for Chriss, Bender , Ulis, and Len.
2. Minutes given to guys that shouldn’t be in the league (James & Gray)
3.National embarrassment 9.9 point differential
4.bledsoe issues (glad he is gone but we need to stop trading from a position of weakness.)

Post #35 » by **bwgood77** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:17 am

ImNotMcDiSwear wrote:I was going to restrict this to one or two votes, but I don't think I could pick only two.

Please vote responsibly.

I'm disappointed Mike James wasn't an option.

Midnight_Suns · Post #36 » by **Midnight_Suns** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:47 am

Literally everything.

TeamTragic · Post #37 » by **TeamTragic** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:07 pm

MrMiyagi wrote:......

The fan base

Exactly. I have seen people saying we should trade Booker. Then it was trade Warren. After that it was trade Bender. Now they want to trade our pick. How about we just trade people that are posting trash.

NapoleonII · Post #38 » by **NapoleonII** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:19 pm

The defense.

50% of watching our team is just horrid, horrid, horrid.

Blonde · Post #39 » by **Blonde** » Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:15 am

LV-Suns wrote:
nevetsov wrote:The Bledsoe fiasco.

This. We were offered Mudiay and the pick that turned into Donovan Mitchell for Bledsoe over the summer, but we let this spill into the season.

This was a rumor. Maybe we proposed that and it and got denied. Maybe it was smokescreen. We don’t know. We wouldn’t have even taken Mitchell anyway.

NTB · Post #40 » by **NTB** » Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:57 am

Blonde wrote:
LV-Suns wrote:
nevetsov wrote:The Bledsoe fiasco.

This. We were offered Mudiay and the pick that turned into Donovan Mitchell for Bledsoe over the summer, but we let this spill into the season.

This was a rumor. Maybe we proposed that and it and got denied. Maybe it was smokescreen. We don’t know. We wouldn’t have even taken Mitchell anyway.

And Mudiay is trash.

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