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Nobody here watched Harrell get EMBARRASSED by Denver in the playoffs? That scrub was the worst player in the series on either team in +/- lmao
 

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Harrell is the type of guy casuals who think Jamal and Melo are good like.
 

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I like Jones but he wasn’t worth our full MLE.
 

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Who? Who has signed (other than Harrell) that the Suns could of and should of signed... who?

I'm just saying what happened to all that talk of Paul getting players to join him here?
 

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I'm just saying what happened to all that talk of Paul getting players to join him here?
With all things equal perhaps, but no player is going to turn down millions of dollars to come play for Paul. Nobody thought that, and if they did, they were kidding themselves.
 

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With all things equal perhaps, but no player is going to turn down millions of dollars to come play for Paul. Nobody thought that, and if they did, they were kidding themselves.

Well, count Flex among them. And I am starting to think JCSunsFan is right about this coming season...
 

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Huh? Getting better at the PG position isn't a reason to make the trade?

Paul is not that much better than Rubio at this point, certainly not enough to warrant leaving three gaping holes on the roster at starting 4, back up 2 and back up 3.
 

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That's what the speculation was. Otherwise there was no reason to make the trade from a basketball perspective.
I am sorry. I would not have made that trade but that was not the basketball reason for the trade. The reason was that Paul is the superior player and he can make our young guys better players and help develop a winning culture. I think his age will prove the undoing of the trade, but free agents was not the issue.
 

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I'm waiting for the inevitable Melo to Phoenix Woj bomb.

If that happens, they might as well contract the team, as the franchise will never have any hope of being anything other than a joke/punchline.
 

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Paul is not that much better than Rubio at this point, certainly not enough to warrant leaving three gaping holes on the roster at starting 4, back up 2 and back up 3.
He is is absolutely better than Rubio. He does everything Rubio does just as well, but is a much bigger scoring threat on and off ball.
 

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I am sorry. I would not have made that trade but that was not the basketball reason for the trade. The reason was that Paul is the superior player and he can make our young guys better players and help develop a winning culture. I think his age will prove the undoing of the trade, but free agents was not the issue.

For me, the issue is lack of a complete roster that therefore won't be able to compete.
 
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Wow. You all really thought players would flock here because of Chris Paul?

The theory, and it’s correct, is that *if given the choice at equal or close to equal money* good FAs will prefer to play on a good team with good players as opposed to a trash team with ok players.
 
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