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isn't he restricted?
The Suns did a sign and trade (Oriakhi and trade exception) to the Kings. So Thomas is ours.
isn't he restricted?
Gambo can have Channing Frye, the Suns don't need him at the salary he just got.
Gambo usually is full of crap, but he has a point... for basically the same amount of money, we could have Frye at a position of need VS having Thomas at a position that's overloaded.
There aren't many good PF options out there & the average/decent ones are getting overpaid like Frye & Jordan Hill.
I expect that this signing means another trade is coming or that Bledsoe is gone.
Gambo can have Channing Frye, the Suns don't need him at the salary he just got.
Same here. What was so great about Channing Frye's game, with all due respect to Frye.
Much lower salary than I expected. Good call KloD. Still unclear to me how Thomas fits in, and -- in the larger picture -- what this franchise's plan is. I keep hearing about "stockpiling assets," but whenever it comes time for the front office to start redeeming those assets, they whiff.
backup PG for 6 million? Okay. Not overly crazy about the move, but don't loathe it either. hopefully he's a Vinnie Johnson for us. If he ends up a starter, i hate the move because that means either Bledsoe or Dragic is gone.
Dragic is our shooting guard. Stop calling him a PG.
Brilliant value 4yrs/27M$ for a legitimate young 20/6 player at high efficiency.
He should be a terrific 6th man for us.
backup PG for 6 million? Okay. Not overly crazy about the move, but don't loathe it either. hopefully he's a Vinnie Johnson for us. If he ends up a starter, i hate the move because that means either Bledsoe or Dragic is gone.
Where did they whiff???
What moves has this current front office made that you don't approve of?
You were saying?
We speculated that they would be players at last season's trade deadline. They weren't.
We speculated that they'd figure out something interesting to do with their three first-round picks. They didn't. The Warren pick looks fine, but they could have done that with one pick, not three. After Warren, they drafted a PG when they are already starting two, and a Euro who isn't coming over anytime soon.
We speculated that they would be major players in free agency, given their "young" core and loads of cap room. Instead they have failed to land anyone who is of starting caliber.
It's not the individual moves so much as the quagmire of mediocrity. All of this talk of "assets" rings hollow when it comes time to show how much those assets are really worth. They missed their big chance in the draft, it looks like they missed their big chance in free agency, and I don't have nearly as much faith in the value of their trade pieces as most of this board does.
I see a roster whose likely ceiling, no matter how much more the individual players develop, is a mid-playoff seed. Of course building a title contender isn't easy, and no, I wouldn't have a plan for how to do it myself. All I can say is, I know it when I see it, and this isn't it. Not even close.
Exactly. Channings worth was stretching the floor, thats it. He didnt play a lick of D either.