Who would've guessed Marcin Gortat would be this good?? Seriously, this guy is GOOD. Once he gets his offensive game under control (hoping for this summer), he will be a Top 5 center in the game.
Grant Hill and Steve Nash both say they would like to stay with the Suns. What idiots!!! I respect them both, but that's just stupid!! This team is dead! Leave it to Jared Dudley, Marcin Gortat and Channing Frye to rebuild. Just retire with nice careers that may land both in the HoF.
Here's what Bill Simmons wrote in his most recent column:
"17. Phoenix SunsAn incredible ten months that included …
A. Owner Robert Sarver pushing Steve Kerr out after Kerr miraculously got his Suns under the luxury tax AND to the cusp of the Finals.
B. Sarver replacing Kerr with agent Lon Babby, who acquired two of his clients (Hedo Turkoglu and Josh Childress) at a prohibitive cost. One never plays; the other got traded within a few months. So that's worked out great. And for the record, Sarver allowed Amare Stoudemire to leave (defensible), then spent 80 percent of what it would have kept to keep Stoudemire on Channing Frye, Childress and Hakim Warrick (indefensible).
C. The team trading Turkoglu and Jason Richardson for Marcin Gortat and Vince "Half-Man, Half-Amazingly Washed Up" Carter, which ended up being a steal (Gortat emerged as the franchise's first legitimate center since … Alvin Adams?) and a disaster (Carter single-handedly murdered their playoff hopes).
Who knows what Steve Nash did in a past life to deserve playing with the Ghost of Vince Carter?
D. Nash suffering through a brutally tough season off the court. To be honest, I wasn't talking about his divorce, I was talking about the fact that every morning, he had to wake up thinking, "Oh my goodness, I have to play with Vince Carter."
E. You realize Grant Hill quietly just had one of the most incredible seasons in the history of the league, right? He played 135 games total from 2000 to 2006; in the past three seasons, he's played every game but three and averaged 30 minutes a night. This season, he tossed up 48-84-39 percentages for FG/FT/3FG, scored 13 a game, played the best perimeter defense of anyone other than Andre Iguodala and even wrote a takedown essay of Jalen Rose for The New York Times. He's 38 years old! This shouldn't be happening.
But hey, at least Sarver was consistent; he's like Nic Cage, you can always count on him to do the wrong thing."
Solid stuff.
Diamondbacks seems optimistic. This team is gonna scrap and fight to win every night.
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Too bad they can't bring back Jerry Colangelo...they've gone downhill ever since he got pushed out. I think Nash and Hill have still got some game in them, though. It will be interesting to see what stupidity management will attempt over the summer. Go D-Backs!
So how come more people aren't on Sarver's back to GET OUT OF THE WAY?
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