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I’ve made my thoughts known previously, it’s time to cut the string. I would add, the great Suns teams always had a talent at their point guard position. Can we find one for Booker?
You're being a jerk, is that your goal? Disagree with the opinions, fine, but calling others fanboys is out of line. And he wasn't gushing over Booker, he simply called out your erroneous "fact". And instead of acknowledging your error you flip out and blame another poster for daring to call you on your error.
Yeah, he isn't in that elite class and other than one or two I'm not sure even they should be paid like that. This current CBA, along with the existing Supermax rules, is going to destroy the game for awhile IMO. OKC for example looks to be set for a decade plus but as soon as they give out their Supermax deal it will become a challenge to keep enough of the roster together to compete. They have a lot of picks which will help but more often than not the picks don't pay major dividends right out of the gate.
We've had "fanboys" here before but no, I don't agree there's a problem like that currently. We have maybe 3 active posters that are perhaps overly rose colored fans, the rest of us realize the mess we're in and the fact Booker isn't part of the solution. If you're seeing fanboys I think you must be running into it elsewhere and lumping our fans in with them. Like I said, very few of us are in favor of going forward with Devin although even fewer of us go as far as you do in denigrating him as a player.
so I guess I'm a fanboy.Yes, he is flawed and overpriced but so are most of the highly paid players in this league. Unfortunately he's already overpaid as is so giving him a significant raise seems incredibly stupid to many of us. But none of that means he's not a good player. He is a good player but he's not good enough to carry a team to title contention and we don't have the assets to build around him. So we'd be a lot better off cashing him in now rather than using him up as we repeatedly struggle to win 30 to 40 games a season.
I want to trade him for a lot of reasons but one of them is that I'm still very fond of Devin. I think he's a good player, capable of being a very good player if we keep him at his natural position. But we're not going to compete for many seasons and I hate the idea of wasting his best years on a team like ours. Let him go somewhere else and be the great second fiddle he's capable of being.I'm fine trading him if we can receive real value in return but considering how precarious our future is through the rest of the 20's, I don't think it matters if we pay him to stay or not.
I don't believe he has to go to turn things around since there is essentially nothing to be done that can turn things around until we're in full control of our own picks for at least 80%+ of the next 5 years. We don't Control our own pick now until 2032 or 2033, I can't recall which off the top of head, so we're in a terrible spot.
It isn't Booker's fault we traded a lottery pick for Nurkic though.
