Durant traded to Rockets

[JeremyG]

More shooting guards. Great. We are 1 or 2 more shooting guards away from contending imo.


Who are the top shooting guards in the draft that we can get with the 10th pick?

You already know the answer. It’s Jase Richardson.

He’s way closer to 29 than 10….would be a catastrophic miss if we do that.

Remember the last time we had the #10 pick?

[TOO]

"Brooks is going to help them a lot, being an alpha and a leader."

-Gambo

I just finished watching that slop with KOC, he's 100% loving being the Ishbia mouthpiece.

[JeremyG]

This is a franchise crippling trade. We got essentially the worst of all rumored trades. We got not a single young player back with any kind of hope or promise. We got only one middling draft pick back. Houston didn't have to give up Jabari or Whitmore or Sheppard.

Absolutely pathetic negotiating from the Suns FO. They got completely hustled here. They should all resign in embarrassment.

I hope you guys realize that we are now going to be a really, really bad team through at least 2032. We are completely fucked now.

Now you know why Gambo said the Minnesota offer was the best.

I would much rather have Gobert. Or Ware. You all know how much I like having a center.

What’s really bad is when we have no size whatsoever. Ugh.

[specialsauce]

I swear if some cornball here makes a KD appreciation thread you're a jokey guy

What a wart on this organization. Him and Squeal set us back a decade

[JeremyG]

So as things stand

PG - Booker /Gillespie
SG - Green /Beal
SF - Brooks/Dunn
PF - Oso?
C - Richards

Aside from that we have Allen, O'neale, Bridges, Martin.

Wow.......

Lol I love how our SF position consists of Brooks & Dunn.

[Flagrant Fowl]

My expectations were low, but holy fuck.

[JeremyG]

James Jones, while imperfect, understood that it was important to consider things like fit and hard work and character and bb iq. The new regime is just throwing players together with no consideration for any of these things. We now have like $150m tied up in score-first shooting guards. Brilliant.

And $150M is the entire salary cap. Lol.

[INFORMER]

Objectively speaking, Gobert makes more sense on this team for next year than Green. But Gobert is locked in for three more years and has probably already started his decline. In other words, he'd be a problem too, just like Green.

I'm not going to lament not getting Gobert; I have no desire to see him on this team.

Maybe Gobert would have more trade value to be rerouted than Green, but I don't have much confidence in this regime's ability to put together a competent trade.

[Kryptonic]

My expectations were low, but holy fuck.

Bro I might have to double up on my anxiety and depression meds for the indefinite future. Suns better get a sponsorship for lexipro.

Our organization is a text book shit show when you hire your buddies to help you run things. The egos on these mother fers.

[INFORMER]

I can't wait to here Gregory pontificate on how Dillon Brooks embodies everything they want Suns' culture to be.

[JeremyG]

There should be some size available at #10 - Derick Queen, Joan Beringer or Khaman Maluach may be the best beig men available there.

If our best options are guys named Queen or Joan, I’m not very hopeful.

[Flagrant Fowl]

A player I loved to mock for being brainless and another player I loathed for being dirty and brainless.

Still the worst Center rotation in the league.

[INFORMER]

It will be interesting to see how Houston fans react. They were ready to run Green out of town after his abysmal performances in the playoffs, but there also wasn't much of an appetite for acquiring Durant. Most of that though was fear of having to part with Sheppard, Eason, or Smith, which of course, didn't actually happen.

[specialsauce]

History repeats itself. Houston takes an aging franchise player from us and in return gives us a Poopoo platter of role players that will never actually serve any purpose in Phoenix and leave us with nothing within a few years to show for the trade.

[JeremyG]

History repeats itself. Houston takes an aging franchise player from us and in return gives us a Poopoo platter of role players that will never actually serve any purpose in Phoenix and leave us with nothing within a few years to show for the trade.

It might be even worse this time. It could be argued that Cassell was a substantial part of the Jason Kidd trade.

[TOO]

It will be interesting to see how Houston fans react. They were ready to run Green out of town after his abysmal performances in the playoffs, but there also wasn't much of an appetite for acquiring Durant. Most of that though was fear of having to part with Sheppard, Eason, or Smith, which of course, didn't actually happen.

Oddly I saw a lot of talk especially in chat rooms on YouTube shows about how Green was too steep and he's only 23 and will get better under Ime, a ton of their fans had no interest in moving him.

[INFORMER]

It will be interesting to see how Houston fans react. They were ready to run Green out of town after his abysmal performances in the playoffs, but there also wasn't much of an appetite for acquiring Durant. Most of that though was fear of having to part with Sheppard, Eason, or Smith, which of course, didn't actually happen.

Oddly I saw a lot of talk especially in chat rooms on YouTube shows about how Green was too steep and he's only 23 and will get better under Ime, a ton of their fans had no interest in moving him.

There were some in Houston media that pointed to Haliburton and SGA as reasons not to give up on a young talent.

I think the one thing I wouldn't ignore is that Jalen Green has been this guy ever since his G-League days. He has always been a low percentage, low IQ, scorer going back to his G-League stint before the draft. He is now four years in. And those were four years of major playing time. It's not like he has been buried on the bench somewhere with inconsistent opportunities.

[Flagrant Fowl]

I suppose they're moving a guard somewhere...right?

[Flagrant Fowl]

Jalen Green's basketball issues are all between his ears. Nearly impossible to significantly improve that at this point.

[Gladiator]

I can't wait to here Gregory pontificate on how Dillon Brooks embodies everything they want Suns' culture to be.

Brooks does pretty much embody the current Suns front office culture - someone who thinks they are a lot better than they are, plays a bigger role than their talent and experience suggest they should and does not let any amount of evidence sway them from their self belief that they know better than everyone else.