Hindsight is 20/20. You had no idea which players were going to pan out or which players would have been available at your pick. If they had let Nash go and ended up with Iguodala...this Suns would struggled. You would have had no PG to run this team and the team defense would have been highly questionable still.
Uh yeah that is the point! They could have taken Iguodala and would have sucked for a year while everyone and their mother knew Chris Paul would come out and Deron Williams was also on the radar.
Even if they were not bad enough to get in the top 5 they would have had a high lottery pick and a shitload of assets to move up the few spots to secure a PG.
Heck they could have gotten "lucky" and gotten Bogut if you consider that better than Paul or Williams but he would have been a perfect center to have next to Amare.
The Suns are lacking patience to build a title winner. Signing Nash was a good move, but they could have done better if you look at it and it is not even unrealistic scenario.
I mean the key move that cost us a championship was trading the #7 pick so they could offer Quentin Richardson more money. That started a chain reaction of trading picks to get out of contracts (Q/KT )and was utterly stupid to give up that high of a pick for just a future first rounder that ended up outside the lottery.
They could have drafted Iguodala, signed Nash and some center for MLE money or slight more. That #7 pick for the future Bulls first round easily might be the worst trade in Suns history.