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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:03 pm
by 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.

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:15 pm
by Indy
Suns Stories

Who cares? I doubt anyone would click on them anyway.
I would. But I don't blame you at all.

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:28 pm
by Shabazz
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Re: Suns News: Week 23 3/30-4/5

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:35 pm
by Cap
carey wrote: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.

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:57 pm
by 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

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:44 pm
by SDC
espn ranks the top 30 starting point guards.

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

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:23 pm
by carey
Almost exactly right where our record is. 15th best team. 14th best PG. Probably not too much of a coincidence.

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:51 pm
by Mori Chu
Mediocre = Worst thing you can be in the NBA.

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:47 pm
by pickle
good read... i wonder what the ranking would be like if they also added youth to the metrics.

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:54 pm
by 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

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

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:23 pm
by 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.

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:24 am
by The Bobster
pickle wrote: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.

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:37 am
by Dan H
SDC wrote:
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.

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:39 am
by Indy
Dan H wrote:
SDC wrote:
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.

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:28 am
by Cap
Dan H wrote:
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.

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:42 am
by Furlanfufi

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 12:21 pm
by Charlie Smithy!
Mori Chu wrote: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.

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:34 pm
by Shabazz
https://twitter.com/Gambo987/status/583047637152067584 [youtube][/youtube]

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:40 pm
by carey
Musical PGs.

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

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:45 pm
by 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.