virtual9mm wrote:P219 -- never thought that you might come around to the idea that the Marion trade was all right. I agree that Shaq was tragically mis-used. Those three games before Amare went out with the eye injury were simply spectacular.
No way the Suns give up an asset (Bledsoe) for a giant contract that may or may not be able to play (Bosh) unless sweeteners were thrown in. Alas -- the Suns already own all of the Heat's picks that they can give up for the foreseeable future.
The only trade that might remotely make any sense is to swap Bledsoe, Chandler and filler for Bosh and Dragic plus a future first rounder if and only if the Suns are convinced that Bledsoe's knees are done.
I don't - I honestly would have preferred to see Marion and his defense next to Shaq, if we are going with pure what ifs and experimentation - or Marion next to KG, instead of the attempted trade of Marion FOR KG. Amare's defense was the weak link, but I have never doubted the explosive power of the Nash/Amare connection. I may not have chosen the Marion trade, but once we blew up the team for Shaq, I feel that we owed it to ourselves to put the pieces is the best possible place and find out if it was WORTH the trade - plus Grant Hill was quite a good Marion replacement, when healthy - that first half season of Shaq, when Duncan hit the 3 pointer, Hill was also hobbled in the post season. We immediately enter the next year with wrong offensive schemes and coaching.
We never once had Nash, Hill, Amare and Shaq healthy AND playing 7SOL at the same time - and we all saw what Gentry did with us in 2010. We will never know what the right combinations could have done. All we have is a 3 game sample.... with absolutely record shattering offensive potency.
I would be quite happy with your proposed trade, by the way....
