Rajon Rondo = Biggest Mistake in Suns History!

[slinslin]

Clearly far ahead of Penny Hardaway, Tom Gugliotta, Antonio McDyess etc.

Thank you Mike D'Antoni.

The player that is too bad for us is about to lead a Garnett-less Celtic team out of the first round getting his 2nd Triple-Double. Go figure it took him just 2 years to pass Steve Nash.

"Draft: 2006 - 1st round (21st pick) by the Phoenix Suns" sold for $$$ and the worthless contract of Brian Grant.

 

[Roca Dolla]

yep that hurts pretty bad, look at his stats today simple amazing!

 

[Hat]

Sarver told him to sell the picks

 

[Roca Dolla]

25/11/11 and goin in the 2 OT right now

AMAZING!

 

[Chaplin]

GET OVER IT! I'm so tired of all the whining about Rondo/Igoudala/etc.

The Suns f'ed up. Move on for chrissakes!

 

[elindholm]

The question is, were the Suns aware of Rondo anyway? Most likely they would have gone a different direction had they been forced to pick there. It's sort of like saying that the Spurs gave up Barbosa, when all they really did is happen to hold the pick that the Suns wanted to take him with.

 

[elindholm]

Jeez, remember when the Suns almost signed Salmons and then had to settle for Banks?

 

[Mainstreet]

Biggest Mistake in Suns History? How about drafting Ed Pinckney instead of Karl Malone but there are so many more.

 

[Mainstreet]

Jeez, remember when the Suns almost signed Salmons and then had to settle for Banks?

Although DA was GM, lay this one at the feet of Griffin.

 

[shazaam6]

GET OVER IT! I'm so tired of all the whining about Rondo/Igoudala/etc.

The Suns f'ed up. Move on for chrissakes!

Move on to what exactly? Waiting for the draft? We have to watch players we could/should have had become successful while the Suns aren't even playing.

Nothing can be done now but we can play the what if game.

what if...

... Sarver knew wtf he was doing after buying an NBA team.
... Sarver was smart enough to know he didn't know how to handle the JJ situation.
... Sarver didn't sell draft picks as multi-million dollar bonus gifts to himself.


Sarver raided the organization because he didn't know the consequences of his actions. It didn't take long for him to take a winner and turn it into a loser. I predict a bailout plea very soon.

 

[Errntknght]

Although DA was GM, lay this one at the feet of Griffin.

Sheesh, I doubt it the people involved know, at this juncture, exactly how they collaborated to pull off all these screwups. Their public utterances were swaddled in spin, so even if someone here guesses right, what reason would anyone else have to believe it?

What looks fairly clear in retrospect is that Sarver likes saving a buck any way he can, D'Antoni had little use for rookies and no one could evaluate talent worth a tinker's dam. Even the much revered BC has gone on to prove in Toronto that he's not any great shakes as a GM.

 

[Chaplin]

Move on to what exactly? Waiting for the draft? We have to watch players we could/should have had become successful while the Suns aren't even playing.

Nothing can be done now but we can play the what if game.

what if...

... Sarver knew wtf he was doing after buying an NBA team.
... Sarver was smart enough to know he didn't know how to handle the JJ situation.
... Sarver didn't sell draft picks as multi-million dollar bonus gifts to himself.


Sarver raided the organization because he didn't know the consequences of his actions. It didn't take long for him to take a winner and turn it into a loser. I predict a bailout plea very soon.

Fine. Keep complaining about the past. There's plenty of bad things that have happened since the Rondo fiasco and especially after the Igoudala one. 3 years of constant complaining is enough, don't you think?

 

[Mulli]

Fine. Keep complaining about the past. There's plenty of bad things that have happened since the Rondo fiasco and especially after the Igoudala one. 3 years of constant complaining is enough, don't you think?

stop complaining Chap.

 

[Forrestham]

Well the bummer part is the sold pics are a lot better than the ones we kept. The worst mistake was still Dennis Johnson for Rick Robey

 

[Ronin]

Isn't signing Eric Piatkowski "the polished rifle" to a contract the biggest mistake in Suns history?

 

[Bufalay]

The question is, were the Suns aware of Rondo anyway? Most likely they would have gone a different direction had they been forced to pick there. It's sort of like saying that the Spurs gave up Barbosa, when all they really did is happen to hold the pick that the Suns wanted to take him with.

D'Antoni was trashing Rondo's jumpshot pretty bad a couple of days before the draft.

 

[jandaman]

Rondo was given time and was allowed to "learn" on court along with the Celtics Big 3... Rivers also gave him plenty of lecturing and motivation.

If Suns kept Rondo, he would be on the bench wasted.... not developing.


Any rookies can be developed when given huge roles..


Also, Rondo isnt MVP type point guard. He isnt a Nash, Kidd, Payton, KJ etc.
He is a system, elite role playing point guard.... just like Stockton... Stockton will go down as the protoytpe perfect PG, ideal skill sets etc. Rondo is similar to that but both do not have the "carry entire" team role like other PGs do.

Parker is an offensive skewed version of Rondo... basically they are 2nd tier type "stars". Cant carry a team as 1st option.... Rondo has the defensive impact... Parker has the scoring skills... etc.

 

[overseascardfan]

Clearly far ahead of Penny Hardaway, Tom Gugliotta, Antonio McDyess etc.

Thank you Mike D'Antoni.

The player that is too bad for us is about to lead a Garnett-less Celtic team out of the first round getting his 2nd Triple-Double. Go figure it took him just 2 years to pass Steve Nash.

"Draft: 2006 - 1st round (21st pick) by the Phoenix Suns" sold for $$$ and the worthless contract of Brian Grant.

Jerry Colangelo selling the team to Sarver was the biggest mistake IMO.

 

[JS22]

Sarver told him to sell the picks

Completely incorrect, D'antoni told Sarver and co. that Rondo wouldn't get any time. And I specifically remember him saying that he's "not in the business of developing rookies" in an interview.

On another note, people still believe that Sarver sold picks "as multi-million dollar bonus gifts to himself?" Really? I guess the Suns having one of the highest current payrolls in the league means nothing.

And no, I'm not a big Sarver fan myself. I just don't think he's as cheap as many people think. He is definitely not the brightest of owners, but I can't describe him as cheap. Dumb? Yeah. Cheap? No.

 

[mojorizen7]

D'Antoni gets a pass... unlike Sarver,Kerr,Porter,JC,BC,OJ.
Its hilarious.

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

Pretty moot point, the Suns would've never drafted Rondo as long as D'Antoni as the coach. The guy put too much of an emphasis in shooting and largely ignored other skill sets. The C's called in the pick.

 

[jw7]

I'm not the die-hard Suns fan that a lot of you are, but I gotta say the Dennis Johnson for Rick Robey trade in the 80's has to be really up there if not #1 or #2.

 

[elindholm]

I'm not the die-hard Suns fan that a lot of you are, but I gotta say the Dennis Johnson for Rick Robey trade in the 80's has to be really up there if not #1 or #2.

I give the Suns a pass on that one because Johnson pretty much forced a trade and had a league-wide reputation as a troublemaker.

 

[Renz]

All those bad picks were just "bad luck". Same way the Lakers' success has all been "good luck".

 

[Covert Rain]

Sarver told him to sell the picks

You can thank D'Antoni and the front offices lack of vision in terms of defense for that one.

D'Antoni said that he felt that Rondo was not a good enough shooter to play in this system. Sarver wanted pick moved if the guy was not going to contribute versus paying him to sit on the bench. D'Antoni didn't think he was a good fit in his offensive minded system and wouldn't play him.

The fact that Rondo is a good defender never factored in evidently. Everything else is just gravy.