Live NBA Draft thread

[elindholm]

"Dwight" is just one syllable, right?

 

[slinslin]

Maybe we can get in the Shabazz/Noel sweepstakes next year but I am sure we will blow all our money on the likes of Jeff Green and others to make sure we pick at the end of the lottery for the 4th time in 5 years.

 

[sunsfan88]

Not sure why everyone is so upset. Who else were they going to take?

Marshall is the best pure PG in the draft. Not making the comparison, but people said Kidd couldn't shoot. And Marshall is a guy that other players are going to want to come play with. Not a bad pick @ 13 IMO. Probably the one with the least amount of "bust potential" in this draft aside from Davis.

He's gonna be a poor man's Andre Miller.

A career backup.

Would rather have drafted PJ3.

 

[sunsfan88]

"Dwight" is just one syllable, right?

D-wight.

I think its two but could be wrong.

 

[slinslin]

So much for staying in college...

Look what it did to Harrison Barnes, Terrence Jones, Perry Jones and Jared Sullinger. Each of them losing millions because they stayed for another year.

 

[Absolute Zero]

Thunder took my guy PJIII. We'll see how that turns out. He could make a lot of teams very sorry they passed on him.

 

[JCSunsfan]

So much for staying in college...

Look what it did to Harrison Barnes, Terrence Jones, Perry Jones and Jared Sullinger. Each of them losing millions because they stayed for another year.

yup. think the lockout scared them

 

[slinslin]

Rockets took my guy PJIII. We'll see how that turns out. He could make a lot of teams very sorry they passed on him.

PJIII is still on the board.

He has a red flagged knee issue (meniscus)

At this point it would be worth trading for a pick to get Jones III, Sullinger, Moultrie, Wroten or Miller..

 

[Mainstreet]

Can't the Suns buy a pick or something.

 

[HooverDam]

Can't the Suns buy a pick or something.

Id love if they did and took a flyer on Sullinger or PJIII. Maybe they don't work out, but this late in the 1st, its worth trying.

But we'll probably now watch a smart team, Boston, pick both of those guys in a row.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Moultrie is still on the board? I would buy a pick and take him.

 

[tobiazz]

If Phoenix really liked Moultrie that much, they should be trying to buy a pick like mad right now.

One thing to take away from this draft. The Suns are going to telegraph who they like each year.

 

[elindholm]

Does a team coming up soon have a not-too-large bad contract to unload, that the Suns could take on in exchange for also receiving their pick?

 

[Superbone]

Houston is going to screw us.

Of course. Why else would they move up to 12th?

 

[Mainstreet]

Does a team coming up soon have a not-too-large bad contract to unload, that the Suns could take on in exchange for also receiving their pick?

I wonder if Lance Blanks has wrapped it up for the evening.

 

[slinslin]

I wonder if Lance Blanks has wrapped it up for the evening.

busy putting the usual "happy spin" on the draft

"We are ecstatic, as happy as we were last year," Suns General Manager Lance Blanks said. "That was the guy that we were targeting all along. Kendall represents where we are as an organization. Don't read too far into this for free agency. But he represents everything we want to be about as a player and as a person. Most importantly, if you look in his background and history, he's a winner and that's what exactly we want to be here - a winner."

 

[Mainstreet]

Of course. Why else would they move up to 12th?

The Dalembert trade probably destroyed the Suns draft order.

 

[SirStefan32]

I wonder if Lance Blanks has wrapped it up for the evening.

No way.

 

[Mainstreet]

busy putting the usual "happy spin" on the draft

I guess Lance Blanks has left the building.

 

[Quagmire]

Does a team coming up soon have a not-too-large bad contract to unload, that the Suns could take on in exchange for also receiving their pick?

Memphis at 25? Tony Allen 1yr/3MM
OKC at 28? Daequan Cook 1yr/3MM

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

My favorite thing about the selection is that it means all our "young" guys (gortat, Dudley, Marshall, markieff) have something in common . . . no athleticism. So we will be bad and BORING. SAH-WEEEET!!!

 

[slinslin]

Tony Allen is not a bad contract.

 

[elindholm]

Memphis at 25? Tony Allen 1yr/3MM

Someone in that range was rumored to be shopping their pick; was it Memphis? I think they like Allen, but maybe they'd sell the pick outright. It would be nice to take a flyer on Moultrie.

 

[HooverDam]

Come on Suns, trade up and take PJIII. He's got talent, maybe he lacks motivating, maybe he's got something in his knee but at this late point its worth the risk.

 

[sunsfan88]

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine

Dallas Mavericks are already shopping No. 24 pick, sources say. Very open to trading it, I'm told

Let's see if the Suns have the balls to trade for the pick and get PJ3 or if they will remain p**sies.