Yeah. It’s weird to claim otherwise. The Mavs were in no man’s land for years and within two years, Luka pretty much singlehandedly got them into the playoffs, and then the WCF by year 5 when the only other very good player they had was Brunson… who the Mavs totally Joe Johnson’d and screwed up their team this year.
Seems to be an undercurrent of Book being empty stats guy, and Tatum not getting the same respect as Booker. The reddit posts I have seen, they compare Tatum's stats to Booker's specifically, and the theme is always, look how much better our guy is. I feel like they think Book is getting too much respect in the NBA and Tatum not enough. That's funny because most PHX people I think feel Book is under valued. I have seen ESPN shows touting Book lately. Seems like they are starting to give him a "little" props for improving his defense. A lot of backhand, he's still not going to be a shut down defender, but now he's willing.
Boston fans for whatever reason feel slighted by Booker. The only thing I know he ever did was put up 70 on their team, and they are really upset by that still. Me, If Tatum hung up 70 on the Suns in a regular season game, I would be like, good for him. I guess I am not as rabid as some of the fans in the Celtic fanbase.
And the Suns actually lost that game and Boston fans in the arena were cheering for him to get the 70.
Yeah, in reddit, as soon as they know you are a Suns fan, they go right to that game. LOL.
He has done a lot. And it does not look like a disaster like so many summers did under McDonough and Sarver. We tanked constantly. This owner is determined to build in ways other than the draft. We will see how it works.
We really lucked out with Ishbia. Might be the pickup of the century.
I've never had a owner *****, and I hope it lasts more than 4 hours
The only two players remaining from the 2021 NBA Finals team are Booker and Ayton. Gambo said this yesterday on the local sports radio. Huge turnover.
If you had told me, looking back that this team would have a not only a new but aggressive owner pulling off huge moves and the roster would be completely rebuilt at that time?
The past few years have been an excerscise in extremes. The off season and even midseason trade deadlines have been so anticlamitic and we got used to it. Now this season or since Ishbia took over? The opposite. I am exhausted. LOL.
