2024-2025 Around the NBA Thread

[hcsilla]

What could have been…

The Suns might have been better off keeping Ayton.

Losing Camara is (very) painful, he is already a quite good 3 and D combo F and definitely has potential as well. He would create a formidable defensive duo with Dunn at the forward spots.

 

[Mainstreet]

Yes, and he is way overpaid and I just don't see the IQ required to mature.

There are other centers to be had, but if Stewart gets his act together, no one is going to be kicking sand in the Suns faces.

I'm a bit tired of the Suns soft image. The Suns could have done a lot worse than keeping Ayton.

 

[Phrazbit]

Pelicans lose Murray for the year with an achillies tear.

Them getting Aaron Nelson to run their training has not yielded strong results, they've gotta be the most injured team in basketball over the last few seasons.

 

[AzStevenCal]

There are other centers to be had, but if Stewart gets his act together, no one is going to be kicking sand in the Suns faces.

I'm a bit tired of the Suns soft image. The Suns could have done a lot worse than keeping Ayton.

Ayton is better than Nurkic is and better than Nurkic was, not even that close. But I still think we'd burned all our bridges with him (and vice versa) so moving on was the right decision IMO, just should have found a better deal.

 

[Phrazbit]

Ayton is better than Nurkic is and better than Nurkic was, not even that close. But I still think we'd burned all our bridges with him (and vice versa) so moving on was the right decision IMO, just should have found a better deal.

Ayton deserves every amount of criticism this board hurls at him, however, I wish we'd given him a chance with Vogel, or more precisely, I wish we'd given Vogel a chance with him. Vogel without any interior defense was a doomed proposition.

I also think we really settled for a garbage trade. Allen is, thankfully, turning his season around, but Nurkic, at his best, was a sub standard starter on a bad contract who got hurt all the time. Throwing in Camara was just another glimps of the Suns caving in just about every aspect imaginable in trade situations the last few years.