Suns News: Week 23 3/30-4/5

[carey]

The Suns are the very definition of mediocre. Lets see if we can somehow finish .500 and pick 14th.

Last Week's Games

Wednesday, March 25th vs. Sacramento L 108-99
Friday, March 27th vs. Portland L 87-81
Sunday, March 29th vs. OKC L 109-97

This Week's Games

Monday, March 30th @ Portland 10:00PM EST NBATv
Thursday, April 2nd @ Golden State 10:30PM EST TNT
Saturday, April 4th vs. Utah 10:00PM EST

Suns Stories

Who cares? I doubt anyone would click on them anyway.

[Indy]

Suns Stories

Who cares? I doubt anyone would click on them anyway.

I would. But I don't blame you at all.

[Shabazz]

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[Cap]

The Suns are the very definition of mediocre. Lets see if we can somehow finish .500 and pick 14th.

NO is already 39-34, so they'll surely finish with more than 41 wins.

"Tied for 15th best/15th worst record in the league" is possible at .500, but the pick would be no lower than 13.

Well, I guess we could trade down a spot or two.

Yeah, right now this nonsense is more interesting than the team.

[carey]

You can listen to this if you want, I don't really recommend it though. Hornacek is doing his damndest to spin this thing on youth, on effort, on lack of consistent energy, on lack of confidence... hell I think he even blamed our players for not setting proper screens to get guys open at one point at the end. The one thing he acknowledged that I appreciated was that we are a bad shooting team. Saying something like "we can't go 2-6 on wide open shots."

http://arizonasports.com/?nid=243&auto=1&aid=311371

[SDC]

espn ranks the top 30 starting point guards.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12563 ... dante-exum

[carey]

Almost exactly right where our record is. 15th best team. 14th best PG. Probably not too much of a coincidence.

[Mori Chu]

Mediocre = Worst thing you can be in the NBA.

[pickle]

good read... i wonder what the ranking would be like if they also added youth to the metrics.

[SDC]

Shooting since All-Star:
Russ: .416/.320/.870
Harden: .393/.328/.859
Steph: .485/.509/.963
CP: .517/.410/.903

curry and paul are both amazing

[pickle]

i think the rankings for dragic/bledsoe are fair, but i'm not sure i'd have rose up there, or even rubio above dragic, unless youth is a factor (which apparently it isn't). towards the bottom end of the rankings it breaks down a bit.

[The Bobster]

i think the rankings for dragic/bledsoe are fair, but i'm not sure i'd have rose up there, or even rubio above dragic, unless youth is a factor (which apparently it isn't). towards the bottom end of the rankings it breaks down a bit.

Rubio has had one season where he has shot over 36%, and his career FG% is .367.

Rose has played 56 games over the last three seasons combined.

[Dan H]

Shooting since All-Star:
Russ: .416/.320/.870
Harden: .393/.328/.859
Steph: .485/.509/.963
CP: .517/.410/.903

curry and paul are both amazing

Freaking Warriors. Can you imagine how much better off we'd be if we'd been able to swap Amare for Curry?

I say tank it at this point, play the young guys. So we loose a few games and get some more ping pong balls.

[Indy]

Shooting since All-Star:
Russ: .416/.320/.870
Harden: .393/.328/.859
Steph: .485/.509/.963
CP: .517/.410/.903

curry and paul are both amazing

Freaking Warriors. Can you imagine how much better off we'd be if we'd been able to swap Amare for Curry?

I say tank it at this point, play the young guys. So we loose a few games and get some more ping pong balls.

Yeah, I am still pissed that they backed out of that deal. So much smarter on their part, though.

[Cap]

I say tank it at this point, play the young guys. So we loose a few games and get some more ping pong balls.

Our draft spot is basically set.

We're currently at #13. If we lose the rest of our games, we'll finish at #13. If we do great, we may drop to #14.

[Furlanfufi]

http://www.nba.com/suns/video/teams/sun ... ov-3560321

[Charlie Smithy!]

Mediocre = Worst thing you can be in the NBA.

Seems like when we've been bad (which thankfully hasn't been that often during my time as a Suns fan), we've haven't (by in large) been bad *enough* to secure a top pick.

Weird (and slightly depressing) place to be as a fan.

[Shabazz]

https://twitter.com/Gambo987/status/583047637152067584 [youtube][/youtube]

[carey]

Musical PGs.

[carey]

*Yawn* We're just rotating guys through now. He wasn't very good in the D-league and we're letting guys with superior stats go or rot on the pine. Kind of silly to bring in a 27 year old guy instead of someone like Joe Jackson but whatever.