I think he was assuming a buyout.
According to some we’re basically the kings.
There is something to this. Pringles philosophy was the best defense is a 7 seconds are less offense. There is story after story about the coach not caring about defense. The story goes that was also a catalyst for him leaving the Suns because he refused to make changes to his approach and emphasize defense more. He went to the Knicks and their defense dropped off after he became the head coach there too.
It was right when the Suns finally became the consensus best team in the league last season that they fell apart. Maybe they're better off without the target on their backs.
ESPN projects suns to top record in the league again next season.
We should just let cp3 sit until Christmas. (sarcasm, but only partly)
That ship has sailed. You can't go under the radar after two years of a trip to the finals and the best record in the league. The Suns are not sneaking up on anybody for the rest of this run.
Kwahi and Murray are absolutely huge. Also if Zion is back that team will be right in the mix for best record. Minnesota has gained confidence, and Edwards is begining to believe he is a superstar in the making. I think next season the West is going to be significantly tougher.
I don't know. It would also be a matter of the media getting bored of them. Especially if some other team becomes the shooting star of the league: such as the resurgent Warriors; or the Celtics; or a team with an over-achieving top draft pick. (Zion Williamson and the Pelicans, perhaps.) If the Suns keep up what I call their conservative, stand-pat, *no-gimmick ways, and also build up a record that is only "pretty good," it's possible that the mnedia and the fans might focus on "sexier" teams and players. That would be a good thing.
Nobody is getting bored of a team with CP3 and Booker on it. The team is going to have a good record and needs it to get a good seed. The only way this team falls out of anybody's radar is if this team completely falls off a cliff. Which in that case they are not making the playoffs anyway. Even then the media would still talk about how a team with so much promise failed to reach it's goal and had two collapses in the playoffs two years running.
We'll have to disagree. Media and fans are distractable. In 2005, people talked about Steve Nash's high-octane Suns team more than they talked about the Spurs, who eventually showed the world it paid attention to the wrong team. I hope the 2022-23 Suns are the Spurs to someone else's SSOL team.
Not with a good team on a current run. Name one team that has played as good as the Suns over a two year period that nobody paid attention to Media and Fans. That's fantasy land. Never happened.
Even then fans gushed over them, and Duncan was basically a media darling since he entered the league. You had to be under a rock not to know who Duncan was let alone he started his career playing next to the Admiral.
They have us coming back to the pack, winning 56 games. One more than warriors in second. And they do think our backcourt was injured.
And they had SUCH a horrid start to the season. Remove that and they were good. Add a healthy zion and the team really dangerous. They relied on a lot of rookies that only got better as the season, and post-season progressed. I’m not sleeping on the Pels.
