Late Summer Boredom Part 2: Your 2009-10 Suns Predictions

by Wil Cantrell on Aug 13, 2009 9:55 PM MDT

So let's hear it:

What place do the Suns end up in the Pacific?
What do you think their record will be?
Playoffs? If so, how far do we go?
Break out players
Biggest surprise of the season

Here I go:

Suns finish second in the Pacific
Record: 50-32,
6th Seed, Make the playoffs, out in first round
Break out players: J-Rich (20 ppg, 4 Ast, 5 RB, 45% 3's, Western Conference All Star, Dragic as backup PG, 10 ppg, 5 Ast, STAT comes back from injuries, plays 78 games, 23 PPG, 10 RPG, 1st team All NBA
Biggest Surprise: No significant injuries-Channing Frye is go to guy when ~~STAT~~ Sun Tzu gets into foul trouble, and feeling comfortable, has the best season of his career. Lou Amundson receives written apology from Nene, Kerr makes no (zero) bad trades, Sarver does not show up at a home game with the big foam number one finger.

What do you all think?

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Good enough

The Dragic prediction is a bit much. The J-Rich prediction is just about spot-on, except he might score more than 20 ppg. Amar’e will not score 23 ppg. He will score atleast 25. That’s a lock in my mind.

And ofcourse Channing won’t be the go to guy when Amar’e is in foul trouble, J-Rich will be. But I guess if you were talking only about big men, yeah, Channing will score 10-16 ppg this season.

by BJabs on Aug 13, 2009 10:54 PM MDT reply actions

BJABS

OK, but let’s go out on a limb…Think Earl Clark will play 25+ minutes and average 10 ppg?

Something always happens that we don’t expect, whether good or bad. What will it be?

by Wil Cantrell on Aug 13, 2009 11:01 PM MDT up reply actions

possibly

see my reply below..which is crossed out for some reason lol

by BJabs on Aug 13, 2009 11:07 PM MDT up reply actions

Let's make my predictions more official, rather than just critiques of yours

- Second in Pacific
- 50-32 record
5th seed. beat Hornets in first round, lose to Spurs in second round.
-break out players: Jason Richardson more points, Dragic more minutes, Channing back to atleast rookie season stats, Dudley max at 8 ppg, Amar’e atleast 25 ppg.
-biggest surprise..hmm..well, if people aren’t expecting Channing to have a good season, then it will come as a surprise to them. If Taylor Griffin signs, he will be a surprisingly fantastic fast-paced offense player as well as play solid defense. Earl Clark will do exactly what everyone expects him to do – 7-10 ppg, .420.460 shooting, 5 rpg, 1 apg.

by BJabs on Aug 13, 2009 11:06 PM MDT up reply actions

I can accept that

If we get contributions from Clark and Lopez. But 50-32 and out in the first round to me does not signify progress. That is what we would have done last year if STAT does not get hurt. If Lopez lays another 4 points, 4 rebounds season on us, that’s a Kerr failure.

Oh, and no way in Hades does Dragic get a 10 and 5, unless Nash gets hurt and he plays 35-40 minutes a game.

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by Hawk42 on Aug 13, 2009 11:03 PM MDT reply actions

Do you really expect the team to make "progress?" And what does that mean anyway? They perform better than expectations? Finish first in the Pacific? I expect some players to make progress, but I’m not sure what progress means as a team concept.

by Wil Cantrell on Aug 13, 2009 11:12 PM MDT up reply actions

wow...

a bit early for predictions…ok. Let me ponder and read and come back with mine

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by Seth Pollack on Aug 14, 2009 12:57 AM MDT reply actions

Hmmmm. Ok.

Im going out on a limb.

4th seed.
2nd in Pacific
Home berth win first round…out second round.
For breakout players, I am saying Dudley/Rich
Biggest surprise (as much as I hate it) – Amare flops. He doesn’t play well becasue he only practiced a month during the offseason. Defense actually gets worse. Offense suffers because he fouls too much. 20 pts 7 rebs at best. Gets traded in early December for picks and talent.

Yikes…thats sucks huh?

Go read a book!

by N8lol on Aug 14, 2009 8:33 AM MDT reply actions

Actually you’re going with something very probably with Amare. He really hasn’t done a whole lot physically this Summer, and his eye worries me, which probably means his eye will be good but his knee will give him trouble. Or maybe he picks up plantar fascitis (sp). I wouldn’t be surprised by a slow start. But if he doesn’t produce, his trade value plummets, and that is not good for anyone.

by Wil Cantrell on Aug 14, 2009 9:27 AM MDT up reply actions

On second thought

I am going to hold off my predictions until October when we do our annual season preview series…

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by Seth Pollack on Aug 14, 2009 9:58 AM MDT reply actions

BOOOOOOOO.

by Wil Cantrell on Aug 14, 2009 2:35 PM MDT up reply actions

Here's my Prediction

What place do the Suns end up in the Pacific? 2nd in the Pacific
What do you think their record will be? 52-30, 6th seed
Playoffs? If so, how far do we go? I’ll say we surprise Denver in the first round and then lose to the Spurs in the 2nd round :(
Break out players: Jared Dudley will win most improved player, JRich will average 22ppg and make the all star team. Amare comes back from his eye injury for 26ppg & 10.5rpg and like the OP said, makes 1st team all NBA
Biggest surprise of the season: Studley with MIP, Sweet Lou shoots 65% from the stripe ;)

by SunsFTW on Aug 14, 2009 12:03 PM MDT reply actions