Umm...I'm not sure what better options the suns have this season besides going after a big man in the draft.
Exactly. The people advocating for "a combination of trades and free agent signings"... exactly what trades or free agent signings do you think the Suns could realistically make that would actually improve the team?
I always see pie-in-the-sky dreamers mentioning us eventually having enough cap space to sign two max free agents... as if somehow the likes of Lebron and Westbrook would ever in a million years sign here... or even guys like Paul George and Jimmy Butler would. You know who we would realistically end up using those max slots on? The likes of Brook Lopez and Khris Middleton, someone in that tier. The kind of guys who make you at best first round playoff fodder, even when teamed up with Booker.
As for trades, it's the same issue - we aren't trading for any top line players either. First of all, none of those players would accept a trade here even at gunpoint. And secondly, I keep hearing the same comical proposals of sending a package of the future first picks we have accumulated plus Bender and Chriss and whatever other dispensable prospects we currently own to the Knicks for Porzingis, or NO for Davis, etc... as if those teams would just give away their young studs for our castoffs and draft picks. It's completely delusional.
The plain fact is the only way the Suns are ever going to measurably improve to being an elite level franchise again is to get exceedingly lucky in the draft. And the best way to do that is to either continue to get very high picks in good drafts, or hit it out of the park on a number of lower picks. One way or the other depends on having and using good draft picks, and unfortunately you have to lose to get those good draft picks.