At some point you will just have to accept that Amare is gone and our front office sucks. Drinking a lot helps.
Too bad I'm not much of a drinker. Any other advice?
At some point you will just have to accept that Amare is gone and our front office sucks. Drinking a lot helps.
I hope he'll get a warm welcome from the Phoenix crowd. After that I hope he won't have his way with our frontcourt.
I hope he dominates us and shows Sarver what an idiot he is so much so that he sells the team the very next day.
Amare is a good player, nobody is disputing that. But even after the first month and a half of the season, if somebody asked if I still would want to offer him a fully guaranteed, 5-year contract, I'd still say hell no. I have no problem with the length, I just have a problem with it being fully guaranteed.
I think most fans miss Amare because we currently suck at that position, a huge void is left behind in his absence. If we had gotten a legit PF, we will be looking forward to a face-off with Amare on his return. Now we sadly get to watch as he dominates.
Amare is a good player, nobody is disputing that. But even after the first month and a half of the season, if somebody asked if I still would want to offer him a fully guaranteed, 5-year contract, I'd still say hell no. I have no problem with the length, I just have a problem with it being fully guaranteed.
to be honest, with the ineptitude our FO has shown over the years, I'd do it in a heartbeat. why? Because with Amare for the next three years (or even two years), we'd continue to be title contenders and I don't think this FO has a freaking clue how to get us back there. So, even if you're afraid Amare will be busted in year 4 and 5 of his contract, I'd rather have 3 years with a shot to win it and two horrible ones, over 5 mediocre-horrible ones, which is what I believe we're staring at.
Honestly, I am completely surprised that you'd think we'd be "title contenders" with Amare. You think the inept front office would surround Amare and Nash/Hill with enough talent to actually contend for the title?
Outside of the year Miami won, were we ever true title contenders?
Right now, we're nowhere. I was comfortable with the idea of letting him go at the time but now, I'd go the other way. I'd certainly rather spend 100 M on him instead of the 40 M plus we spent on Hedo. We'd have a good power forward and the net cost would only be 60 M, I could live with his health risks at that number.
Add in Warrick or Childress (if we could still swing a deal), re-sign Frye and we're an improved team from our WCF appearance. It probably wouldn't get us a championship but I figure somewhere has to be closer to the finish line than nowhere. I don't like nowhere.
Steve
agreed. hell, if you swung that Hedo deal with Amare here, we'd probably be pretty damn nasty.
now we're just stuck in purgatory and we will be for a long time. that's pointless.
True, but it's not like that is some big breaking news. We've known since June that this is probably what we'd see. In fact, right now we're sitting in the worst possible position. At least it can't get any worse... right?
Amare with 11 TOs, a number that'd appease his haters on this board, and Knicks on their continued way of coming apart to echo the title of this thread.
Good for Stoudemire. It's too bad he didn't win a title in Phoenix, and he won't win one in New York either, but I wish him well. He has been through a lot and, although he has made some mistakes, he has also done a lot of things right.
Good for Stoudemire. It's too bad he didn't win a title in Phoenix, and he won't win one in New York either, but I wish him well. He has been through a lot and, although he has made some mistakes, he has also done a lot of things right.
Good for Stoudemire. It's too bad he didn't win a title in Phoenix, and he won't win one in New York either, but I wish him well. He has been through a lot and, although he has made some mistakes, he has also done a lot of things right.
Add a Dwight Howard to that team and I'd make them the favorites. Add a Carmelo Anthony to that team and I'd give them a pretty good chance. Add a Noah type player and I'd put them solidly in the mix. Add Dwight Howard to the Suns and I'd put us (barely) in the mix.
Steve
Amazing insight. Adding Dwight would make them favs to beat the Heat and Celtics? Definitely disagree. Obviously in fantasy land you can add Dwight and Carmello. In that case the Suns should add Blake Griffin and Kevin Love to their front line.
However, and not that this is any huge stretch or anything, I think his chances of winning one in New York are much better than our chances of winning one in Phoenix over the next 5 or 6 years.
Add Dwight Howard to the Suns and I'd put us (barely) in the mix.
Do you mean, add him for free? I disagree with that. If there were a magical way to add Howard to the Suns' roster without giving anything up, it would make them a top-3 team in the West easily. Howard is a better player than Stoudemire, so essentially you'd have an improvement over last year's Suns team plus Warrick, Turkoglu, an improved Frye -- that's a very good team.
that would have effed our franchise for years.