The problem is driving to the hoop more puts him at a much greater risk of injury, which is also something he's had a persistent problem with throughout his career.
with no draft pick to show for it
I don’t think this squad wins a lot more than 15 wins even with Book. My over under is grimly in the 25 wins level and I’d be surprised if we got to that number.
Yeah I have trouble seeing how we'll win more than 12 games this season. But then I remind myself that we haven't seen Green at all and we haven't seen much of Williams. Then, I remind myself that our only win was at home against a bad team that was missing a few of its best players and I start thinking 12 win ceiling again.
12?! Man… you are DEEP in the dark side. I think Green and Book together can lift us to 17-23ish Ws. But it’s a rudderless ship, without an elite difference maker on either end, chock full of rookies and unathletic 3’s with a first time HC. That’s a recipe for disaster.
Yep... and, mark this down - at some point in the season, when he's had enough of the losing, being the malcontent he is, Brooks will become a cancer or some type of destructive force on the team. He will become one of the key reasons as to why the team will put up an epic number of L's. And the team will be forced to assertively deal with him in some way, be it players confronting him or Ott, or Gregory, or Ishbia himself... It won't be pretty...
Yeah 12 might be a bit extreme but if so, it will likely be due to gift wins late in the season as other teams start to tank. We lack talent and nothing hides that for long.
I'm not sure whether it will be Brooks that goes nuts first but we are a bad team right now even while everything still seems shiny and new - what will we be when the locker room explodes and players start playing for themselves?
I mean... there very well might be other players who become problematic. However, I really don't see any others holding the potential to explode and cause havoc at the level of Brooks. Gonna be an ugly, ugly season...
No doubt although my greater concern is that we destroy things with Devin before we go our separate ways. We should have already moved him. Failing that, we should have been setting him up to score 60 every night so we can get something for him when we do finally come to our senses later this season.
Was wondering the same thing.
Also have to realize how many new faces there are. Beginning of the season is rarely a good barometer for how a season unfolds as most teams need 10 games to get their legs under them. Most new teams (aka rebuilt and younger) need 20-25 to get acclimated. While I don’t think this team is going to be anything other than mediocre-to-bad I think it’s incredibly difficult-to-impossible to get a realistic read on them at this point.
Ditto
I typed out a nice long response justifying my prediction and then deleted it because I just don't want to argue in favor of us sucking horribly this season. I'll just hope I'm wrong and that my 12 win prediction looks silly by midseason.
I sure hope so and then we can make good fun of you.
Unfortunately, based on these first three games anyway, I could see you being accurate with your assessment but I am hoping you are what you appear to be which is a broken man, when it comes to our Suns. 
I mean, I have a tendency to go full realism to a fault and I don’t see us being THAT bad. So I am a bit curious as to your prediction. 12 win teams don’t usually have anyone the caliber of Booker. I mean, that threatens the all-time record for futility of 10.
I think we have the worst power forward situation in the league, one of the worst center situations (until/unless Malauch develops), a middling small forward situation, an average shooting guard situation and a bottom third point guard rotation. Add to those a new and untested Head Coach and I think 12 wins is generous.
