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I'm surprised by the amount of hate Kaminsky gets here. Sure, he was maddeningly inconsistent. But there were games that he almost single-handedly won for us, nights where he was arguably our best or second-best player. He gave us a lot for the first 1-2 months of the season. He isn't right in such a large role, but I admire him for giving us everything he could. As has been said many times, he's not meant to play 28-30 mpg; he's a bench guy, 12-14 mpg, more if he's on a hot streak, kind of guy. I want to see him in his proper role before deciding he's trash.

As for Baynes, I support trading him if it nets us a 1st-rounder or an exciting young player. I don't think we should just dump him to pick up a marginal or mediocre asset. Baynes is a really nice backup center; I love his work ethic, his teamwork/camaraderie, his 3-point shooting, his defense, his hard screens he sets. I like that he talks on D and tells guys where to go. He seems like a good dude who you'd want on your team if you were trying to win games. The main worry with him would be that he might command a lot of money in the offseason.

What would you pay to keep Baynes? $8m/year? $10m? That's probably the range we're talking about, at least. Is he worth that? I would much rather keep him, but my guess is that if we could send him somewhere for a pick, that's probably better than just losing him at the end of the season because we aren't willing to pay his new market value.

I don’t want to pay him and my guess is he won’t want to play here. He’ll go play for a contender. Because of that, I’d trade him now and get what we can for him. If that’s just a crap 2nd rounder, then I’d be perfectly fine keeping him around and letting him expire.

His production fell of a cliff and he's been injured. I'd be concerned with offering him a whole lot. He started out great and I'm sure the whole production plummeting is directly related to being hurt. They are still valid concerns.

BookTheGoat wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:48 am

ShelC wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:04 pm

Brace yourselves:

What is everyone’s Twitter handle if you have one

Could always use more Suns tweets on my timeline

@chrisdible but I don't tweet that much. depends of I am watching it live or on delay.

Followed! Mine is @_The_Serg

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Wed Jan 29, 2020 2:06 am

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Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:55 pm

ShelC wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:53 pm

And if we can get him back healthy and then Frank and then Cam...

I wouldn’t mind Frank being out for the season. He gave us nothing.

I totally disagree. He would be a big help off the bench.

I think the one problem we ran into is that we didn't put Frank next to the right player. He needs to be paired with a rebounder/shot-blocker. We ran him with Saric or in small ball lineups where he was playing the 5 next to small forwards. I think he might be effective as a starter at the 4 next to Ayton.