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RaisingArizona wrote:Dr Manute wrote:Saberestar wrote:
If we come away with any of these guys as our starting PG, I'm going to be:
Lol might as well trade Booker now if that's the master plan
Wilber85 wrote:RaisingArizona wrote:Dr Manute wrote:
If we come away with any of these guys as our starting PG, I'm going to be:
Lol might as well trade Booker now if that's the master plan
Why would booker demand a trade ? He’s part of the reason suns aren’t winning ! Isn’t the right leader !
If he doesn’t get over30 wins this year I would love to get rid of him
Crives wrote:
I just have this hunch that ty is going to be our Bridges this year. Ty is going to be awesome in summer league.
RaisingArizona wrote:Wilber85 wrote:RaisingArizona wrote:Lol might as well trade Booker now if that's the master plan
Why would booker demand a trade ? He’s part of the reason suns aren’t winning ! Isn’t the right leader !
If he doesn’t get over30 wins this year I would love to get rid of him
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PhxLax wrote:Think people reading too much in the SF Cam pick. Just bc they picked him don't mean Oubre is gone. They picked him cause they had to pick something at 11 and they didn't wanna use it on yet another "high ceiling" guy like the other 6 years. This is a totally new regime and they wanna put their own fingerprints on it... And I don't fault them.
When your work place gets a new boss and management, they come in and clean up a little bit. They prob see Cam as "Allen Houston" style shooter who won't command much playing time this year and just let him simmer and develop... Same as that high school PG Jalen Lecque.
This prob does mean Melton/Okobo are out. Somehow. Holmes is done too. He's awesome but I love the Baynes pick. Best backup C in the league. Really tough and smart.
If reports are true they somehow wanna get another PG and PF, then so be it. But I would think new regime don't want any part of old regime pickups from last year. Assuming Oubre signs:
C Ayon - Baynes
F AWAIT - Saric - Some Veteran
F Oubre - Bridges - Cam Johnson
G Booker - Jackson
G AWAIT - TJ - Jerome
*Lecque = D-league
*Okobo, Melton = Gone
enigmatics wrote:bwgood77 wrote:jsierra1985 wrote:
the main thing for ayton is he has to rev up his motor....he plays soft and tries to finesse other big men....he needs to be a bully....
That would be nice too. That's been his nature for the most part as long as I've watched him so I'm not sure if I expect it. Sometimes he will get mad and have a little bit of an edge but it's pretty rare.
I think the team is counting on it. If it doesn't happen, then they can make appropriate roster adjustments.
bwgood77 wrote:
LukasBMW wrote:I was pretty hard on Ashley Nevel earlier this year, but she has called almost every move the Suns have made this off season.
She's the new insider.
Gambo is blowhard
Ashley is the new insider.
Ashley, I was wrong about you. Respect girl!
?s=19bwgood77 wrote:
Yeah they are absolutely adding another big. As of now if they had any injury to Ayton, Saric or baynes they would be playing Spalding big minutes.Saberestar wrote:Crives wrote:Saberestar wrote:Yeah, and the list of PFs is not better...
Thad Young
Aminu
Kaminsky
Mike Scott
What do we need a pf for? Is Cam going to have to earn his bench minutes?
A backup for Saric.
Cam looks more an SF. He weights just 205 lbs.
Honest question other than DLo what 'star' will even give them a meeting this summer?Blonde wrote:I’m not that upset with taking Cam at 11 or even passing on Clarke/NAW/Williams. I’m upset that we passed on Culver at 6 - the one guy who I thought had potential to be a third star on this team.
But, this year Free Agency is way more important than the draft and it always was. We messed up with who we took but it won’t be nearly as harmful as messing up in free agency. However, what we do in free agency could compound the mistakes from yesterday. If we’re only signing mediocre role players then I’m going to really regret not drafting someone with star upside. If we shoot for the moon and try to sign/trade for a star level player, then it will make a lot of sense why we drafted role players.
Right now it looks like we’re going the mediocre role player route and I just cannot buy into it. Think it’s a massive failure to not put all chips on the table right now and get our third guy. I fear Jones is complacent with Booker/Ayton as his two “stars” because that can get really dangerous. Booker is a flawed star, and Ayton hasn’t proven anything other than he can be an efficient, albeit passive, offensive player. We’re going to need unprecedented growth from someone else but I can’t identify a player on this roster who I can reasonably see break out.
