Sarver's draft history

[nowagimp]

rondo would have been nice but he hasnt done all that great of a job defending tony parker

this year parkers stats vs the celtics

17ppg 8ast 5rbs on 50% shooting - 1 game

last years

22ppg 4.5ast 2.5rbs on 60% shooting - 2 games

nash like defensive numbers if you ask me.

im not saying rondo is a bad player, id love to have him backing up steve nash but this dude has gotten alot of extra hype... the kid has 3 hall of famers playing next to him. those guys would make me look good running with em.

Yeah parker scored 17(in 37 mins) and rondo scored 20(in 29 mins), each shot 50%. I expect cassel(17mins) was guarding TP when rondo sat. The celtics won by 2. I've watched rondo defensively, he is quite skilled, has long arms and plays bigger than he is. He's also fast off the dribble. I sure would not mind him being Nashs backup and help defend guys like CP3. Rondo played well in a season split with the hornets. CP3 shot 13-26, but rondo shot 18-25 as both averaged 20ppg in the series. to say a guy like this cant help make the suns a better team is silly. The suns have the worst backup PG of all playoff teams(LB), and Nash is getting old. Rondo will be a good pro for a long time and his rights were sold for some cash by a team with no backup PG, and no defensive alternative at the PG position. Oh yeah I watched rondo in the ECF opener steal the ball 5 times(with 11pts 7 dimes)against the pistons, the kid is an impact player.

 

[Chaplin]

I remember tons of people complaining about Parker and Ginobili too. In fact lots of people argued that you can't stop Tim period and you should concentrate on Parker/Ginobili. I think there were enough on both sides of the fence on that topic.

Are you serious? For YEARS the only thing anybody ever complained about was not having a good big man on the Suns. It's only the past 2 or 3 seasons that Parker/Ginobili have risen to be as big an issue as they are.

Up until then, it was ALL about that big man. That's why Amare Stoudemire was so hyped. And STILL the complaints were abundant about the lack of a big man when he was a younger player.

 

[Kolo]

Threads like this drive me nuts. Sarver has had very little to do with the stupid moves the Suns have made since he bought the team (except not signing Joe Johnson the first summer Sarver had the team). Sarver establishes payroll limits, like almost all owners. The Spurs dumped Luis Scola to stay under the luxury tax this offseason, for example. The g.m. and other decision makers decide what team to field within those limits. If BC or D'Antoni or Kerr thought we'd be better off dumping a big contract so we can keep the first round picks and stay within the payroll limit, that's what we would have done. I'm sure we could have shipped Barbosa (or Marion or Amare) away and had the money to keep first round picks and maybe sign a few $3 million type players. But the g.m. kept deciding that we're better off keeping half a dozen expensive players and filling the rest of the roster with junk. That's not on Sarver, that's on the g.m.'s. As a practical matter, our payroll has always been higher than league average and now well above it. It hasn't been Sarver's unwillingness to spend that has caused us to dump picks, it's our g.m.'s decisions that we're better off with just a few very expensive players and nobody else, instead of spreading salaries out.

 

[Treesquid PhD]

Threads like this drive me nuts. Sarver has had very little to do with the stupid moves the Suns have made since he bought the team (except not signing Joe Johnson the first summer Sarver had the team). Sarver establishes payroll limits, like almost all owners. The Spurs dumped Luis Scola to stay under the luxury tax this offseason, for example. The g.m. and other decision makers decide what team to field within those limits. If BC or D'Antoni or Kerr thought we'd be better off dumping a big contract so we can keep the first round picks and stay within the payroll limit, that's what we would have done. I'm sure we could have shipped Barbosa (or Marion or Amare) away and had the money to keep first round picks and maybe sign a few $3 million type players. But the g.m. kept deciding that we're better off keeping half a dozen expensive players and filling the rest of the roster with junk. That's not on Sarver, that's on the g.m.'s. As a practical matter, our payroll has always been higher than league average and now well above it. It hasn't been Sarver's unwillingness to spend that has caused us to dump picks, it's our g.m.'s decisions that we're better off with just a few very expensive players and nobody else, instead of spreading salaries out.

No, I don't believe that at all. Sarver is a hands on owner, I think he has a big say in personel.