Steve Nash trade

by philebarb on Feb 1, 2010 10:20 PM MST

Steve Nash is a top five all time kind of PG if he wins a chip or two, and it becomes depressingly more clear with every year that the Suns don't know how to build that kind of team right now. Therefore as much as it pains me to say it Steve deserves us to honor what he's done for us by giving him away to a top tier team. Everyone is always talking about the Amar'e trades or the Barbosa, and J-Rich trades, and those may eventually be a necessity when money, and wins get even tighter around here; but now I think as a matter of respect Steve deserves to be given a shot to be on a team with a respectable title shot, and not one that won't be ready to win until he's just a joke dragging his dead body onto the floor three years after he should have retired. We've already experienced that, and it didn't turn out well(google search a young man by the name of Shaq Oneal) to the tune of going from first place when he arrived to not making the playoffs and having our worst year since the pre-stevian era. I personally love Steve on my facebook my religious views are listed as Steve Nash, my hobbies listed as Phoenix Suns, and that is why I believe this is something that not only should be done but has to be done.

And hey the Mavs got closer to a chip than ever after they let Steve go, so who knows maybe we can even get something good in return, and build our team into the contender we thought we were all along.

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OMG - Can we don't trade any players that may cause us to tank the season?

I want the Suns to make the play-offs. Period. And we should support the team and the players even when they are slumping.

Can we leave the rebuilding to the off-season?

by magenta on Feb 1, 2010 10:22 PM MST reply actions

Here’s something I don’t get…the point is to win a championship right? To feel that your team can contend for a chapionship or at least is building towards a championship.

Do you think the suns roster as currently constructed with the aging Nash and Hill, the likely to leave Amare and the notoriously frugal owner are going to contend for a championship or are they more likely to lose in the first round of the playoffs?

I ask this because the sixers organization (and many of its fans) seem to find first round playoff losses and 500 records as ‘successful’ seasons, and I’d rather they lose but seem to be building towards something positive than maintain mediocrity

by jemagee on Feb 4, 2010 7:41 PM MST up reply actions

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Steve isn’t slumping he’s playing great just about the only guy on the team doing so, but eventually we’ve got to say to ourselves “okay this just isn’t working.” And once we reach that point we’ve got to say are we really okay with playing six playoff games a year, and then pretending we’re just one little tweak away from being a contender again because it’s become dreadfully clear that we are not.

by philebarb on Feb 1, 2010 10:40 PM MST reply actions

I'm concerned that he may not recover from the abdominal strain that quickly

However, Dragic may end up having more time trying out his pick-roll with Lopez if that happens…

by magenta on Feb 1, 2010 11:30 PM MST up reply actions

Steve

Has averaged 38 minutes 14.5 points 14 assists 4.5 rebounds and .5 turnovers in two wins the last two games with this injury, so while I realize he could just be that awesome of a pro in the same way Kobe is I just can’t imagine the injury is to bad.

by philebarb on Feb 1, 2010 11:43 PM MST reply actions

+ 1: I hope so too.

We need all the remaining original suns to win our games.

by magenta on Feb 2, 2010 12:01 AM MST up reply actions

I voted

by alimoe on Feb 3, 2010 11:31 AM MST reply actions

That’s a great poll. I also believe it’s time to give Nash the opportunity with a contender to win a championship. I know he’ll stay here and be happy about it if he’s not traded, but I genuinely think he should go to a contender now, because the Nash era is coming to a close, whence the Suns may slip into the “Sterling” era, aka Donald Sterling, and no player worth having will want to play for the Suns anymore.

I had a dream that Nash was traded to Dallas backing up Jason Kidd – what goes around comes around I guess. I bet Dallas would make a serious run at a Championship with Kidd/Nash at the point. That probably won’t happen, but I could see him going to Boston or, God Forbid, Cleveland as a last resort.

Yet another Suns blog: http://phxsunsnews.com

by JasonEllis on Feb 3, 2010 1:59 PM MST reply actions

I disagree

At the risk of sounding confrontational, I disagree with just about everything that was said in this post. I will take it from the top and work my way down. First off, saying the Suns “don’t know how” to build a championship team. Really, Are we that spoiled? I think we can all admit that less than three years ago, the Suns were one of the two best teams in the NBA. One break here or there and we would have had a championship team. So, obviously we know how to, we just haven’t had it fall into place. “Steve deserves to be given a shot to be on a team with a respectable title shot.” I actually agree with you there, however I disagree with your logic. He does deserve this chance and he got his chance. He chose to re-sign with Phoenix. It cannot be pinned on the Suns’ front office as their responsibility to give him a better chance to win a title elsewhere. He had that opportunity and he chose to pass it up. Their responsibility is to pay him, they did and they are. Talking about players playing three years past when they should retire is one thing, but Nash is nowhere near there and quite honestly, neither was Shaq. People age, their games decline and they begin to lose a step. Just because this takes place does not mean that they need to retire. I’d have taken O’ Neal over half the players in the league last year. The reason that the Suns absolutely WILL NOT trade Nash is because he has a lot of basketball left in him, and if the rebuilding process is done correctly, he just might get one legitimate shot at a title. Lets not forget that amidst all the trade talk regarding our current key players, we are still rebuilding. We are developing two legitimate starters in Dragic and Lopez, we also have some nice role players that could definitely help us win when the time comes (Dudley and Amundson), and lets not forget that if Earl Clark figures it out and progresses to his potential, he also has the skill set to be a starting 3 or 4 depending on where he fits. If Goran and Robin continue to develop the way they have this year, we will have a solid core to this team for years to come. Keep Nash and hope that we can somehow add one more great player to put us back into contention once the whole Amare fiasco is resolved.

Go Suns.

by threefortywest on Feb 4, 2010 3:55 PM MST reply actions

You are correct that three years ago we were near a championship, but that was when the team was comprised of players put together by Jerry and Brian Colangelo I wholeheartedly agree that they knew what they were doing when they were here. I think though that you are completely wrong in think we are only a developmental year or two away from being a contender. You are right Steve decided to come back, and Steve backed one of the worst trades in the Phoenix Suns history, and so he does have to stay here, and it is his issue for believing that the Suns can create the winning formula, and I hope like hell every year that they do. In the end these are guys working for major corporations being payed well for their services, and so it is true that they are owed nothing by the Corporations, and nothing from us. I simply chose to write this article because I believe the Suns shot at a title is over, and it is time to rebuild, and Steve J-Rich, and Amar’e will be getting payed a cumulative 42.6 million dollars next year which makes leaves about 13 million under the cap for the other nine.

by philebarb on Feb 5, 2010 11:17 AM MST up reply actions

Steve backed one of the worse trades in the Suns history?

Are you referring to Marion for Shaq?

Or Shaq for 2 expirings with no pick?

by magenta on Feb 6, 2010 12:46 AM MST up reply actions

ok yeah I suppose the trade which got Shaq out of here was bad because we got nothing, but it was great because we got his contract out of here, and he backed that one as well; but I was speaking of the trade that brought Shaq AKA. the player in the NBA that least fit the Suns to Phoenix. They thought they were going to be 2008’s 2006 Heat, and it blew up.

by philebarb on Feb 6, 2010 11:13 AM MST up reply actions

Don't trade Nash or Amare mid-season as we can't afford to tank this season

without a pick.

Do the rebuilding in the off season. Suns have horrible short team memory about their track record with panic mode mid-season trades, which are often supported by equally short-sighted trade mongers…

by magenta on Feb 5, 2010 9:12 AM MST reply actions