Looking on the Bright Side as the Suns Beat the Kings (Again)

and can do just that, operate from the FT line. But he couldn’t stay on the floor from foul trouble.

Clearly no one else knew what to do about it.

But he hasn’t looked aggressive either scoring or distributing.

but a little overblown. When he was giving out those contracts, the team was in a lot different situation financially and on the floor.

Did he make some bad decisions? definitely, but I’m not too worried about him having some cash available to work with. If anything, I’m a little worried what the reaction’s going to be if he doesn’t spend any money other then on roster fill this summer, which I think is possible.

He and Kenny Thomas could have been best buddies.

So I don’t know Wall’s game. What kind of gaurd would you want next to Tyreke? A playmaking “true” point? A combo gaurd? Scoring gaurd? Maybe you have an idea of a certain name that would fit? I personally am stumped. I honestly thought Kevin would be perfect. I don’t see how you can take the ball out of Tyreke’s hands so what do we do?

Tyreke cannot score the ball almost any time he wants to. He can’t penetrate a zone, he often dribbles into double teams and turns it over, and his outside shooting is, shall we say, suspect?

We certainly saw our offense come to a standstill last night. Tyreke appeared frustrated and his post-game words appear to echo that. We haven’t seen a problem with out offense in quite some time.

6 million dollar is six million dollars is $6,000,000. The rookie scale Money will still be waiting for him if he ever does come.
I never understood why everyone thinks the big FA’s almost never move because thier home team can pay them 10%more and at the same time thought he would play two years for free.

The have FC Barcelona games on every Saturday or so it seems. The kid can’t shoot but can pass. Sergio Rodriguez could pass too…

As much as I wanted to see Ricky in a Kings hat on draft day, we got the better player.

I would hope that the impulsive, “got a great idea” posts would be on an asinine thread. We just get Landry, he’s had two games and already there is the, “I just don’t see a Landry/Thompson or Landry/Hawes front court working.” How can anyone take any idea of a proposed trade seriously after assessing how players work together after two games? There needs to be a place for these off-the-wall ideas to be bounced around by those who appreciate them.

If someone has what they think is a well-thought out idea, present it as a fan post with their rationale. Otherwise it is just flinging mud against a wall to see if it sticks. Just my opinion.

and all I will say is, I don’t care what the system is or anything else. For the last month watching Stephen Curry play has been a pleasure and he has been playing at the highest level of any rookie that I see play regularly.

That doesn’t mean I’d rather have him than Tyreke, or anything like that, but Curry has been phenomenal recently, and Tyreke has struggled a little, compared to the lofty expectations he created.

He either doesn’t see the court that well yet or he doesn’t have the confidence to make the quick timely pass.
No question he needs to work on his shot, my wife knows that.

Lets not over judge him yet though, he IS just a rookie.

rewatch the Sun’s game, entry pass to Landry thrown out of bound, pass thrown to ref for turn over, Nash and Amare double Evans as Hawes cuts to basket, and no entry pass to Hawes, Evans dribbles ball at left sideline as 2nd player leaves paint to double and Evans allows the double team to arrive and doesn’t pass the ball. There are plenty more example where players get open and Evans doesn’t make the pass, Casspi for one last night.

Evans was always the go to guy and never had to make plays, he has limited experience being a playmaking PG, and to be frank, it’s still not guaranteed that his real future isn’t at SG which might be why the FO decided to move Martin.

If I ran the FO, and my only concern was to develop Evans in to the PG of the future, I’d continue playing the way we have all year. If I was concerned about winning more games, I’d have made the Martin trade, move Beno to the starting PG and Evans to starting SG, then I waive someone and pick up another backup guard. The Kings are going to do the first and wait to see if Evans can develop true PG skills.

I have noticed more movement on the weakside, in the last few games, which is a good sign that maybe the coaching staff is trying to create more opportunities for Evans to make plays without scoring.

I think he is a PG, because he needs the ball in his hands to be most effective.

So does Kobe. NaPG. LeBron- NaPG. Dwight Howard- NaPG. Gerald Wallace…

You get my point.

Being able to create your own shot doesn’t make you a point guard. Being able to be a floor general and make plays for your teammates does.

Steve Nash- PG who racked up more assists Sunday night than our entire team. Chris Paul. Deron Williams. Even Beno and Bibby.

And if Tyreke sees the court so well, then why is he always dribbling into double and triple teams and not finding the (at least two!) open shooters?

I’ll grant that he’s a rookie and might improve in this area, but so far I haven’t seen him show any desire to improve there, nor have I seen the coaching staff try to make him improve in that area.

I’d go with
 ‘I respectfully think you’re full of shit’

But, McGuire started the 4th for 2 minutes. Came back in at the 7 min mark for JT and played 5 minutes. Hawes never returned, and sat out the 4th on the bench with 1 foul to give.