Cleveland had Darius Garland and Collin Sexton prior to swinging the trade for Donovan Mitchell last fall so I get not wanting to go into a logjam situation.
That runs counter to what we heard on draft night but if this is true, what a screw up on our part. And for the Spurs who also passed on him for supposedly the same reason.
This bungle (among a few others) is primarily why I have lost any enthusiasm I may have once had for James Jones being the Suns GM. I have to admit that I hope that Ishbia considers moving on from him soon if they don't somehow win it all this year.
Except, in the history of the Suns, sometimes we would have 3-4 PGs that would start on any roster, because we kept drafting, trading and getting them in free agency, but we couldn't get a decent center to save our butts. Sometimes need outweighs BPA. Right now we could use a good rebounding big as our fifth starter to help on the boards. We are a small team outside Nurkic. So we are back at the PF conundrum again. KD is that guy when playing, but we are still looking for that guy when KD isn't in the lineup. Heck against big teams it would still be great to have KD, Booker, Beal, Nurkic and a big rebounding player X.
When you are completely stacked at a position that the BPA belongs to than you trade out of the spot IMO. Of course this is not really a factor with Hali as we were not stacked at PG when we passed on him.
Yeah you don't use the draft to balance your roster, you do that with signings and trades. If there's a clear BPA, you have to take him even if it creates a logjam.
Yeah, they went slow and steady. We probably should have gone that route too but let's face it, after a decade of being the laughing stock of the league, I can understand why we tried to advance our timeline with CP3. It didn't help that we caught very few breaks with the draft lottery and then failed to make the best out of what was available.
Disagree. Most of the really bad trade and draft decisions this franchise made prior to the Sarver era were attempts to make us bigger and stronger in the middle. For whatever reason, we were much better at identifying shooters and playmakers and struck out whenever we went after some inside muscle.
