Starting Lineup

[slinslin]

If everyone is healthy and Ward bought out.


Amare/Voshkul/White
McDyess/Harvey/Lampe
Marion/Zarko
Johnson/Jacobsen
Barbosa/Eisley


IR: Googs, Williams


This team still is very talented if you compare to some of the teams that are playing a lot more succesful basketball.

 

[Goldfield]

If McDyess's knees can hold up that would be a hellova athletic front 4...


Isnt Lampe that Center from europe that was projected top 5, and fell to the knicks in the second?

Isnt he like 7'2" ?

 

[Joe Mama]

I don't think we are going to see Barbosa starting right away. I think Howard Eiseley will be the starting point guard.

How soon the the Suns going to be able to get Milos Vujanic into a Phoenix Suns uniform?

Slin and the other European posters,

I'm sure this is being discussed on the other thread, but I haven't had a chance to read through it yet. How good is this guy? I thought I had read recently that he is the best point guard in Europe. Are there any problems with him?

Thanks,
Joe Mama

 

[slinslin]

I have seen him only once and I am not even sure it was him.

The best PG in europe is Sarunas Jasikevicius hands down. Milos isn't close to him, at least not yet.

Remember Jasikevicious was rumored to sign with the Suns this offseason but had already agreed to a contract with Tel Aviv.

 

[Joe Mama]

Thanks slin.

Joe Mama

 

[slinslin]

That being said Jasikevicius absolutely dominated Jaric and Parker at the european championships.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Lampe will get minutes here for sure.

 

[Joe Mama]

Originally posted by Chris_Sanders
Lampe will get minutes here for sure.

He wasn't part of the trade, was he?

Joe

 

[King A]

meanwhile he and trybianski is, yeah

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Originally posted by Joe Mama
He wasn't part of the trade, was he?

Joe

Yes he was Joe.

The Suns are a big team now. I actually watched Lampe during preseason and I thought he would have looked good in a Suns uniform.

He is signed to a 3 year deal for 1 million a year.

 

[slinslin]

Barbosa better start over Eisley.

We are officially looking at the 2004 lottery anyway so play the guys who need to play.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Barbosa or JJ will start at the 1.

I think it will be JJ.

 

[Goldfield]

Barbosa will start


If JJ starts at the Point who will start at SG?

 

[jbeecham]

Casey Jacobsen, or maybe Marion with Zarko moving to starting SF.

 

[SirStefan32]

Originally posted by Joe Mama
I don't think we are going to see Barbosa starting right away. I think Howard Eiseley will be the starting point guard.

How soon the the Suns going to be able to get Milos Vujanic into a Phoenix Suns uniform?

Slin and the other European posters,

I'm sure this is being discussed on the other thread, but I haven't had a chance to read through it yet. How good is this guy? I thought I had read recently that he is the best point guard in Europe. Are there any problems with him?

Thanks,
Joe Mama

Joe, as I said in another thread, he is one heck of a player. He can do it all- think Drazen Petrovic who could play D. I absolutely love watching him play. He is at least as fun as Marbury. I disagree with Slin- Vujanic is not only the best PG in Europe, but he is the best PLAYER in Europe.

 

[Goldfield]

Originally posted by SirStefan32
Joe, as I said in another thread, he is one heck of a player. He can do it all- think Drazen Petrovic who could play D. I absolutely love watching him play. He is at least as fun as Marbury. I disagree with Slin- Vujanic is not only the best PG in Europe, but he is the best PLAYER in Europe.

This comming from a Steph fan is saying ALOT...

 

[slinslin]

The best player in europe right now is Arvydas Macijauskas

Than you still have Bodiroga and Jasikevicius who are better than Vujanic.

Macijauskas was selected best SG and overall European palyer for 2003. Also he is in All-Europeans 1st Team 2003 together with Parker, Peja, Dirk and Gasol.

 

[SirStefan32]

Originally posted by slinslin
The best player in europe right now is Arvydas Macijauskas

Than you still have Bodiroga and Jasikevicius who are better than Vujanic.

Macijauskas was selected best SG and overall European palyer for 2003. Also he is in All-Europeans 1st Team 2003 together with Parker, Peja, Dirk and Gasol.

We can argue all day.

 

[slinslin]

Yeah but those are facts.

Maci was selected best european player, Jasikevicius dominated any PG at the european championships and Bodiroga is established as one of the best Euros ever.

 

[Goldfield]

Originally posted by slinslin
Yeah but those are facts.

Maci was selected best european player, Jasikevicius dominated any PG at the european championships and Bodiroga is established as one of the best Euros ever.

I dont see an arguement, It sounds like we are getting a heck of a player. Not to mention draft picks, cap space, and "maybe" a solid player at center Lampe...

 

[hcsilla]

Originally posted by slinslin
The best player in europe right now is Arvydas Macijauskas

That's debatable, IMO.

Stats don't tell everything.

 

[hcsilla]

Originally posted by slinslin
Jasikevicius dominated any PG at the european championships.

You mentioned in another thread that Jasikevicius is by far the best european PG.

I wouldn't go that far. He is a very good one, no question.
I think that he is the best 1st pass PG in Europe.
But don't forget that he plays for the best european NT which plays the best team basketball and has a lot of skilled individual players.

BTW, Jasikevicius didn't dominate against Spain at all moreover he had an average game.
I still would hesitate to take him over Parker.
Jasikevicius is bigger and a better passer but who should Parker pass to?
To Diaw or Moiso? They can dunk the open 3ft-er but so much about their offensive arsenal.

In other words I would argue that Jasikevicius is such a dominant PG in Europe.