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    A Farewell of sorts

    Just finished a couple of weeks in the Hospital and enjoyed spending 3 hrs catching up with the board. Amazing how you guys are sticking with the team, I must say. I've been silent most of the time - I didn't watch but a few games so I really couldn't contribute to the basketball convo. My...
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    Hustle stats

    I just discovered the hustle stats page at NBA stats. My impression of the Suns play is that that are really not playing hard as I posted a few days ago. No one posted a differing opinion but the hustle stats make it startlingly clear. Here are the Suns rankings for each category: Shots...
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    Revisiting McD

    For a while we had a continuous stream of 'dump McD' sentiment showing up, and I just noticed it has suddenly shrunk to a tiny trickle. I'm thankful that he was never presented with the opportunity to draft Fultz or Lonzo but, who knows, he might have drafted Jackson even so. I imagine that is...
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    Does the Dish Network carry the Suns games?

    I thought the Dish network didn't carry Fox Sports - and looking on the net today I found conflicting information. Can someone please give me the true story? A salesman for Dish Network assured me today that the network carried the Suns games, but it dawned on me later that he might mean they...
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    McHale fired three weeks ago

    I spotted the old news in "Last Post" but no one replied to it... so I thought others might have been as unobservant as me. JB Bickerstaff was promoted to interim head coach. I don't think this could be Bernie Bickerstaff but maybe its his son - or even his daughter. Hardin's scoring has...
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    Biggest question marks for the Suns

    Clearly the Suns team is full of question marks at this point. Which of them do you feel are the most significant? Markieff Morris stands out to me. I'm certainly glad we got Teletovic and Leuer so he should get the message that he could wind up sitting if he doesn't produce. Chandler echoes...
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    Update on rookie class 2013

    I noticed recently that this class of rookies are getting a surprising amount of burn in their second year. You might remember that this class was regarded as very weak - historically weak some said. One poster said that he didn't think more than three would have any sort of an NBA career...
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    Interesting use of rim protection stats

    Duplicate thread, don't use I normally use the SportVU rim protection stats for front court players and for them many attempts against is a good thing because one can interpret it as the guy being active in defending the rim. (Of course the best rim protector is the one that opponents...
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    Interesting use of rim protection stats

    I normally use the SportVU rim protection stats for front court players and for them many attempts against is a good thing because one can interpret it as the guy being active in defending the rim. (Of course the best rim protector is the one that opponents fear and refuse to shoot near him...
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    Tarik Black may help us yet...

    The Lakers would have beat Charlotte without him but he did have a very nice start with the team: 17 min, 4/4 FG, 6/7 FT, 9 bds, 1 blk, 0 TO. Ed Davis almost matched him: 22 min, 5/8 FG, 10 bds, 3 blk, 0 TO. Thank goodness we got Wright or I'd be weeping and gnashing my teeth. The way he...
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    The rookies

    For the last three years I've been tracking the stats for rookies as a group (and indivually). I just took my first cut at this heralded rookie class. As a group they are doing about the same as the previous two classes, which is to say they suck. About the only stat where there are any...
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    Woj tweets a raft of FA signings

    Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA · 42m Yahoo Source: Free agent forward Ed Davis reaches agreement on a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers Davis' deal is two years, $2M, with a player option on the 2015-'16 season. DeJuan Blair's deal with Washington will be three-years, $6M -- with a...
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    Derek Fisher the Knicks new head coach

    Phils first big move...
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    Consider PF Ed Davis

    It would be great to have Kevin Love but being that seems highly unlikely, I did some sifting through the other youngish PFs to see who minght help us with our woeful rebounding from that position. I looked at guys that are kind of flying below the radar at present with the primary requirement...
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    Any news about Okafor?

    Last week the team said something about seeing Okafor during the trip to NY... just wondering if any one has seem any thing about that...
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    Leandro to rejoin the Suns on a 10 day contract.

    Here's the link to it... only other information was that he'll join the club in Chicago. Leandro Barbosa To Sign 10 Day Contract With Suns - RealGM Wiretap
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    Trouble with this site?

    Is anyone else experiencing trouble with this site? Now I'm forced to log in every visit and it doesn't have the threads correctly place marked. I probably won't be able to start this thread either... Oh good, now I can start a thread again.
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    Rookie watch

    Actually I'm just following the first 30 draft picks, of whom 25 have played so far. The leaders in minutes played (through the games of 11/25) are: Carter-Williams 399; Oladipo 358; Olynyk 315; McLemore 284; Cody Zeller 275; Caldwell-Pope 267; Steven Adams 227. The average minutes...
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    A trade for Gortat...

    It sounds like a ridiculous trade for the other team - Houston sending us Omer Asik in return for Gortat. Suppose out of the gate its clear that Asik and Howard cannot co-exist. Houston should view Phoenix as a 'safe' place to send Asik since they couldn't see us as competition in the near...
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    League to video every game with a single system

    The system comes from a company called STATS and last year 15 franchises purchased their system. Now the NBA is making it league wide. The novel thing about it is that it comes with software which can track individual player movement and analyze some elements of the action - they said, for...
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    McD adds some staff (link)

    Phoenix Suns add top lieutenants Lester and Connelly to supplement front office staff - Bright Side Of The Sun
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    Affordability of elite NBA defense

    A few months ago in a thread about rebuilding the team I said that quickest way for the Suns to get back in contention was to target the best defensive players because they are overlooked relative to the best offensive ones and thus cost less. I didn't back it up with any data but I stumbled...
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    Last predictions: Suns Wins

    We've had two rounds of predictions and its time for our last guesses. I started at 30 and dropped it to 25 a month or so back when a number of people had the bottom falling out. Latest for me is 26 season wins. What say you?
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    What was Toronto thinking?

    Maybe I'm missing something here but they give up Ed Davis and throw in Calderon for the privilege of overpaying Rudy Gay? Are they looking a couple of years ahead when they have to pay Davis big bucks because he's a solid starting PF? Sheesh the Grizz go looking for the chance to dump Gays...
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    Suns vs Mavericks 2/1/13

    7pm A loss tonight is a win-win so if Hunter is going to let the kiddies play this the game to do it - put them out there and forget to take them off. Ain't going to happen, of course. I expect the players to be itching to flex their new found defensive muscle and win the game quite...

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