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I didn't realize he put up those numbers.New Suns Center Earns Massive Praise From Devin Booker
The Phoenix Suns were unable to win the final game of their three-game road trip, falling 138-134 in overtime to the Utah Jazz. However, Mark Williams, who was traded to the Suns in June from the Hornets, is proving he should be considered as the starter after his 25-point, 11-rebound game.
We were simply a different team when he was in the game. I know it's highly doubtful but if we can keep him healthy, that gives us 3 quality starters (giving Green the benefit here) and a bunch of bench players. Probably not enough to compete at the high end but it could vault us into the play-in wannabe group.
We were without Brooks, who would have made a difference in the game, imho. Just based on what we have seen from Brooks.
I'm not really a Brooks fan and not just because he's one of the dirtiest players in the game. I think he does a lot of the little things that help a team win and we obviously need some toughness but if he's a starter, he really needs to be your weakest link. Unfortunatly we have so little talent that he has to fill the role of "star" and he isn't close to that level IMO. I think he has more value to a contending team.
Yeah, we have good size that we can't use unfortunately. Somehow we need to find a real power forward, not an undersized SG or SF that we force to play out of position. With a little bit of luck we could end up having the best center situation we've ever had (not now, but months from now) but without a real PF we're going to struggle.
I would argue that Brooks, while no star, is a quality starter as well. The issue is that in starting Brooks, green and book it’s essentially three similarly sized guys. But I think there are four starting quality players on the team.
I think with green back and Williams more a focal point Brooks needn’t fill a star role.
Yeah, hopefully so. it's not his fault we need a role player to play like a star for us.
There’s no doubt we are low on talent. I was thinking “no way Brooks takes this many shots if green is playing” through the first couple games.
It's very rare someone drafted late in the first round amounts to anything. Most totally washout of the league.
Hopefully, Brooks will take enough that Booker gets fed up and starts taking more shots. I want the old aggressive Booker back.
You raise a good point. Last season if he drove the ball was almost invariably stolen or a turnover. I commented on such regularly. Appreciate you keeping me real.
Agreed. I want to see how well he adjusts once the opponents start paying closer attention to him. If he can become a reasonable answer to our starting point guard question, that will nail down at least 3 spots for us and give us a much better chance to win our matchups at the 2 and the 5 which should at least keep us in a lot of games. Somehow, we need to turn Richards into a defensive minded forward with length, physicality and an outside shot.
