Grizzlies @ Suns Tuesday game thread 12-31-2024

[95pro]

Damion Lee is James Jones 2.0. He's a wing shooter who has 1 skill, shooting, and brings nothing else to the table. I wouldn't even say he's a good locker room guy given how lifeless and lethargic this team is as a whole. A good locker room guy doesn't allow those sort of traits to persist. Lee should have been cut last year when he was dealing with his injury. It's not like the Suns, or NBA, doesn't do that regularly with fringe players like Lee.

The Suns waived Frank when he was hurt and before that they waived Isaiah Canaan right after he injured his leg and was looking at a long recovery. The Knicks just did the same with Landry Shamet also. It's not something that poisons the free agent well, is my main point.

There’s been some positives said about Lee but I don’t see his leadership anywhere. I’m not sure why he’s still on the team.

Canaan was paid even though he was hurt. The suns lived up to his contract iirc.

I also heard the same for Kaminsky being akin to Lee. But he was cut and was more useful imo. Can you imagine having him on this group with the cast of centers we have. Least he could shoot from outside.

 

[clyde2tw]

The roster construction of last season was all wrong. Starting from trading for Beal, then throwing Camara into the Ayton deal, then sign the min deals with Lee, Yuta, Bol, etc. who didn't pan out. Okogie, Gordon, Eubanks were good enough for the money though. Lee opted out with Suns promise to sign him again, which saved a couple mil. bucks for the club.

 

[95pro]

The roster construction of last season was all wrong. Starting from trading for Beal, then throwing Camara into the Ayton deal, then sign the min deals with Lee, Yuta, Bol, etc. who didn't pan out. Okogie, Gordon, Eubanks were good enough for the money though. Lee opted out with Suns promise to sign him again, which saved a couple mil. bucks for the club.

Jones got rid of two we drafted; Jalen Smith and Camara. They could have been useful by now if we were into developing our own guys. They’re not world beaters but we would have forward/center depth with some youth and athleticism.

 

[Yuma]

Jones got rid of two we drafted; Jalen Smith and Camara. They could have been useful by now if we were into developing our own guys. They’re not world beaters but we would have forward/center depth with some youth and athleticism.

Pair them with Oso and Ryan, and it's not the best, but it is a nice young rotation at center and forward.