and the mock winner is...

I picked Williams for these reasons.
He able to defend 3 positions, he is a great passer, he doesn’t turn the ball over and he is ready now.
Lawson will probably be a very good player even if he can’t shoot 3’s or defend but I think the suns need what Williams bring at this time. I don’t want to read all the comments about the suns defence again next year.
There are a lot of PG’s available this year take a chance on Hudson or Llull in the 2nd round.
I know it’s too high to take a wing…….if he helps the suns now with his skills take him

So to win a title, we need a backup point guard? Hmmm… I fail to see it myself.

IMHO, there are two options with drafting:
1. Get the best player.
2. Get the player that will help the most.

A backup PG for the future achieves neither, especially for a team that can still contend.

Because despite the doom and gloom, the Suns have plenty of talent, and we get Amare back. Amare for 30 extra games is surely worth at least 4 more wins, so that makes the Suns a 50 win team right there. A few roster tweaks, and we could be in the upper echelon again. 10 more wins would have been good enough for 2nd in the conference, after all.

Given the Sun’s needs, their record, the quality of players available at 14 and the conference landscape, with 8 teams close in wins behind the Lakers and a big gap to the tenth best team, I think Phoenix should move the 14th pick for what they need to contend: another big.

The last time we had a good bigman rotation, as opposed to two great players and no depth, was Kurt Thomas last season, when we had Diaw, Marion, Amare and Thomas. Since then, we’ve got better talent in Shaq, but worse depth. We are now down to just two and a half players who can play the 4/5 fulltime in Amare and Shaq and a half in the Amundson, Barnes, Hill, Dudley foursome, none of whom are 5s but can play a bit of the four, and that is just too few. Another player who could play 5 would enable more options, with Amare afforded more time at the 4, and make the small lineup a weapon rather than a necessity. And no, i am not confident Robin Lopez can be that player soon enough.

It would be different if there was a player available late in the lottery who had star potential. But there is no player, at any position, who anyone is saying with any certainty is going to be even a starter available at 14. This is the biggest crapshoot of a draft in years outside Griffin, and any player chosen is a risk that could go in any direction. For team on the bubble, drafting 14 just isn’t a very good proposition this time around.

The future is now, and a defensive 4/5, or even an Udonis Haslem type pure role player to back up Amare and Shaq and let Dudley and Amundson be energy players for 15 minutes a game, would put the Suns back amongst the West’s Elite.

Make that player a defender with a varied repertoire, who can defend multiple positions, and we have pretty much the perfect team.

Can anyone say full mid-level exception to bring Shawn Marion back? (I can dream, can’t I!)