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Doc Rivers is a better Suns GM than Lance Blanks ever was.

Don't kid yourself, depending on what we give up, a healthy Carmelo Anthony would make us very very good. However, he has one of the 8 no-trade clauses in the league. His wife works in NY. It's not ever going to happen.

ESPN/TrueHoop piece on Len and Nurkic:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:12172335

Melo would be a great fit with the burgeoning culture of FOE and Writingouronchapter.

INFORMER wrote:Melo would be a great fit with the burgeoning culture of FOE and Writingouronchapter.

That would be the worst influence I could imagine.

Though it sounds like he's still pretty injured.
https://twitter.com/YourManDevine/status/555849513886556160

INFORMER wrote:Melo would be a great fit with the burgeoning culture of FOE and Writingouronchapter.

10/10

carey wrote:I came to post about Bullock as well. I'm not sure what the Suns interest is. What does he give that Goodwin doesn't for example?

Shooting the ball.

Shabazz wrote:We just traded Shav for Bullock.

SHHHHHAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVV! NOOOOOOOO!

We'll have to form an emergency support group.

I don't think this small trade implies any other larger moves to come. I think McDo just likes collecting assets. He's just taking advantage of teams needing to dump interesting prospects, a little like what we did with Brandan Wright. At some point, McDo may package 3-4 assets to grab something exciting like a superstar, but I think it's more in the Morey mold of just grabbing as much interesting talent as he can.

INFORMER wrote:They're shopping Goran?!

Calm down, it's a real GM "insider", we all know how reliable they are with their "leaked" info.

virtual9mm wrote:Regarding the Morri, Markieff is an excellent starting PF and is perhaps an excellent complement to Len

Sorry v9, I'm gonna have to disagree with you. An ideal starting power forward to me averages double figures in rebounds every night and has go to moves down low with his back to the basket..Markieff only has 1 of those 2 features.

INFORMER wrote:I'd be POed if I were a Clipper fan. Thanks Doc.

Bullock doesn't make any sense for the roster, but getting ANYTHING for Shavlik Randolph is freaking incredible.

That is true. I wouldn't have blinked if they cut him after getting Wright.

Mori Chu wrote:I don't think this small trade implies any other larger moves to come. I think McDo just likes collecting assets. He's just taking advantage of teams needing to dump interesting prospects, a little like what we did with Brandan Wright. At some point, McDo may package 3-4 assets to grab something exciting like a superstar, but I think it's more in the Morey mold of just grabbing as much interesting talent as he can.

I agree. He's just churning the bottom roster for better assets. So far Bullock and Wright have been good roster pieces to add for Shav and 2nd round picks from Minnesota.

iLLmatic wrote:

virtual9mm wrote:Regarding the Morri, Markieff is an excellent starting PF and is perhaps an excellent complement to Len

Sorry v9, I'm gonna have to disagree with you. An ideal starting power forward to me averages double figures in rebounds every night and has go to moves down low with his back to the basket..Markieff only has 1 of those 2 features.

I agree he isn't ideal, or excellent as a starting PF. But I would say he is in the top 10-15 if you look across the league. He isn't in the list of PFs you build around, but I think he is a great compliment (especially if you have a strong rebounding team already).

And I looked this up to punish myself, but there are 62 guys in the league that rebound more than anyone on our team per game. And that excludes all of the guys that aren't eligible to win the aware based on games played. Ouch.

TheOriginalOriginal wrote:Doc Rivers is a better Suns GM than Lance Blanks ever was.

Well, it helps that Blanks set the bar subterranean low ...

Superbone wrote:

Shabazz wrote:We just traded Shav for Bullock.

SHHHHHAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVV! NOOOOOOOO!

We'll have to form an emergency support group.

ALL HE NEEDED WAS A CHANCE! WHY, MCDONOUGH? WHY???

Regardless if Bullock plays a mintue for us, its another fleecing by Mcdonaugh.

To get anything for SHAV's corpse is gold. Just stock piling those assets.

What we should of done was cut SHAV and signed Jermaine O'Neal.

Then time traveled back to 2004.