Say it with me: Warren is not a PF. He is playing there because the two we have were so bad that we're playing Warren out of position. Warren's +/- has never been good, even on terrible Suns teams because he doesn't distribute, and is a huge negative on D.Indy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:49 amWorm, saying Frye was the 2nd best defensive player on our team that year is like saying the same thing this year. At best he was middle of the pack in the league (based on DWS and D-rating). Hard to call a guy a 3-D guy when he plays average D.
As far as TJ goes, again, saying we have no PF is disingenuous. You can not like him, or think he needs to pass more or play more defense. I agree. But he has still been a very effective PF for us. There are 78 guys in the league that play significant minutes at the 3/4 without playing any guard/center. TJ is 8th in PER at 19.2. This isn't like PG where we have a borderline NBA player starting for us. We have a legit starting PF.
On you 3rd point about who is playing a lot and how much they suck, you pointed out Anderson and Ariza haven't been playing of late... that was my point. It only leaves Jackson with significant minutes, and I have a hard time saying JJ alone is "too many awful" players.
I share your outlook on the game, just not for the hyperbolic reasoning.
Also:
You need 5 players on the floor for 48 minutes per game. Our team is so bad, at so many positions manned entirely by really bad players (PF, PG), you're going to be putting terrible players on the court no matter what for considerable lengths of time. It doesn't help that the SF on the team making the most money and getting the most total minutes has been really awful, and so has his back up. Replacing one or two awful players with another couple of awful players is still a **** sandwich, regardless of what variety of **** gets put between the slices. We have one serviceable SG, two decent SFs, a C, and a decent back up C. Unless you plan on playing all of them 48 minutes per game, that a lot of court time for bad players, regardless of which one you choose.
