2023 Suns General Offseason/PostSeason News Thread

[Split T]

I’d take him…he’s probably a vet min guy at this point

[Mori Chu]

I didn't realize Cory Joseph was 31 years old. Time flies.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/pl ... pco01.html

[Superbone]

Gambo says the only way Paul is coming back is if he’s waived and resigned for the minimum.

[Flagrant Fowl]

I think there's a decent chance Paul would sign with the Lakers if he's waived, and it wouldn't upset me too much.

[Split T]

Or back with the Clippers. His family is in LA after all. If he does that, we can just stretch his contract and save more. I wouldn’t be too upset either.

[ShelC]

Flex interview for those that want to watch plus a reddit recap. I do think the waive and re-sign plan is unrealistic. It really sucks to opt in and pay him the $30mil but we may not feel like we have better options.

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[Split T]

Will be interesting, Gambo says no chance CP3 plays at 30 million. And Gambo has been pretty on top of things this off-season. Maybe waiving him and then giving him the BAE(4.2 million) or say half the MLE(6.1 million) would be a compromise.

[ShelC]

If another contending team has more money to offer, he'll sign with them. Just not sure if the Lakers or Clips have their exceptions. Doubt he'd take a backup role with a team like the Bucks or Cs (could start there?) He won't sign for the minimum with us and it kind of defeats the purpose of waiving him to clear the money just to give him one of the exceptions. We need some fresh blood and depth.

[Split T]

It just depends on how committed he is to being here. He may value that over a couple million dollars. But he also may value being in LA near his family more.

[Mori Chu]

As imperfect as CP3 is, waiving him for nothing will be a setback for the team. He was good at setting up others in our offense and he was a pesky defender who generated a lot of steals. Starting some scrub like Cam Payne is not a winning strategy. Obviously we would be trying to use his salary slot to go get other players, but we don't really get $30m to work with. We'd just be getting some exceptions back, so we will be really restricted in terms of how we can improve the team. It very well may be that what we get back for losing CP3 is worse than keeping CP3 would have been. Lot of pressure on the front office to get this right.

[SunsSince92]

As imperfect as CP3 is, waiving him for nothing will be a setback for the team. He was good at setting up others in our offense and he was a pesky defender who generated a lot of steals. Starting some scrub like Cam Payne is not a winning strategy. Obviously we would be trying to use his salary slot to go get other players, but we don't really get $30m to work with. We'd just be getting some exceptions back, so we will be really restricted in terms of how we can improve the team. It very well may be that what we get back for losing CP3 is worse than keeping CP3 would have been. Lot of pressure on the front office to get this right.

Spot on. I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that the decision they make on Paul's future will make or break our season. It's that critical.

[INFORMER]

As imperfect as CP3 is, waiving him for nothing will be a setback for the team. He was good at setting up others in our offense and he was a pesky defender who generated a lot of steals. Starting some scrub like Cam Payne is not a winning strategy. Obviously we would be trying to use his salary slot to go get other players, but we don't really get $30m to work with. We'd just be getting some exceptions back, so we will be really restricted in terms of how we can improve the team. It very well may be that what we get back for losing CP3 is worse than keeping CP3 would have been. Lot of pressure on the front office to get this right.

Sorry Mori, you're living in the past. "Starting some scrub like Cam Payne" won us our only games against the Nuggets, and he was our best player in Game 6. But this isn't about him; I'm fine with sending CamPayne packing too.

The steals Paul gets are just two possessions compared the other 80 or so possessions where he can't keep guys in front of him. We don't need him to set anyone up; the offense is basically going to be Book or Durant creating, and with the new regime, probably feeding Ayton in the post regularly. We don't need a ball dominant PG anymore.

Most importantly: PAUL CAN'T STAY ON THE COURT. That isn't an imperfection; it's a non-starter. Whatever you think Paul brings to the table is negated by him either being unavailable or hampered by an injury come playoff time.

[INFORMER]

Terrence Ross, we hardly knew you.

[TOO]

Terrence Ross, we hardly knew you.

Giggled pretty good at this.

[Split T]

Ross played for Vogel in Orlando

[JeremyG]

It was interesting how James Jones seemed to throw Monty under the bus, saying that he thought our bench and roster were good enough to win a championship the last couple years.

[INFORMER]

It was interesting how James Jones seemed to throw Monty under the bus, saying that he thought our bench and roster were good enough to win a championship the last couple years.

Of course he is going to say that. If he didn't say that, then 2021 and 2022 are on him, and 2023 would be on Ishbia.

[Mori Chu]

It was interesting how James Jones seemed to throw Monty under the bus, saying that he thought our bench and roster were good enough to win a championship the last couple years.

You seem to be taking all of these comments completely credulously at face value. A lot of times in these press events, they say what is expected, they say the right thing to say. Of course they'll say that they think this team can and should win a championship. And of course they'll praise core guys like Ayton, CP3, Book and KD, whether or not all of those guys are still on the team in 6 months. It'd be foolish to do differently.

[JeremyG]

I would have expected (and hoped) that Jones would say something more along the lines of, "These playoffs showed that we need to upgrade our bench and build a deeper roster." He's not going to get fired for taking responsbility to improve the roster.

[INFORMER]

And maybe he is just delusional. I mean he has seen how unreliable Paul and Payne are, and still hasn't gotten a third point guard option. He saw Giannis and Brook Lopez eat us alive, but still hasn't tried to find a big that can play with Ayton. These are issues that have plagued the Suns for years without being addressed.

Some tried to sell Durant as an answer to the big next to Ayton, but that isn't his game, and we saw in the Denver series, we couldn't even match Aaron Gordon's physicality. And Gordon is hardly the gold standard of physical play at the 4 spot.